Talk:Living Universe Foundation

I have read that the LUF has run into legal and financial affairs. Can anyone confirm that? Also I did not log in when I wrote the article. D'oh! :) -- User:Babbler 12:38 EST

Legal Status of LUF

The Living Universe Foundation experienced a very gradual decline in activity over a period of about a decade. Around 2003 the Executive Board determined that the nonprofit status of the foundation was no longer economically worth maintaining. The charter was permitted to lapse and the foundation reverted to the default status in the state of Colorado which is an "unicorporated association."

The group continues to maintain several legacy communications portals, especially the Yahoo! Group LUF Team where former members and occassional new parties collaborate on projects such as CELSS, Mars Society, 1000 Planets Inc, OTEC news, and others.

The LufWiki fell into disarray when the primary administrator became unable to devote sufficient time to maintaining things server side. A corrupted file or table somewhere led to edits being lost rendering most of the wiki unreadable. The revision files were largely intact so the entire set of 7 webs in LufWiki universe were downloaded and burned to CD and otherwise backed up on the private server space of long time members. The wiki remains suspended in the ether until it can be properly archived allowing the content to be put back into use. Several content management systems are being explored for use in a new website for the LUF Phoenix Project but it is unlikely that a TWiki platform will be chosen again.

There is also talk of a "new book" to refresh the now outdated technology that spawned the first iteration of the foundation.

--KeithDauzat 20:43, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Made a correction

The foundation was originally known as the First Millennial Foundation, not The Millenial Project as the original article stated.