In a post or chat transcript that I can't find now I think that Gwyn said she thought a lot of our history had been lost when Linden Labs switched off the support for the old group forums. The old Neualtenburg Projekt forums on LLs website used to be where we debated legislation, and had our usual drahmas, much like on these forums. We left the old forums a couple of years ago around the same time as the U-quake which destroyed half of the city and the subsequent name change to 'Neufreistadt' and the establishment of the Confederation of Democratic Sims (CDS).
One of our citizens, Diderot Mirabeau, compiled a set of del.icio.us bookmarks to signpost key portions of the forums. I just checked the bookmarks and it looks like they're still working. The links are accessible here:
http://delicious.com/Diderot/neualtenburghistory
It seems that we might be able to recover key historical documents including the formation of a budget in March 06; the first bills submitted to the RA; the development of the framework for holding elections and early thoughts on defining citizenship among many other topics.
There are lots of other tasks for the Web Portal Team and the incoming RA Archivist to work on but I hope that the task of preserving some of our 'ancient history' from these documents can become part of it. I thought these had been lost but it seems the motherlode is still there!
