First Millennial Foundation
The First Millennial Foundation was a space advocacy and futurist group founded by Marshall Savage in 1988.
Beginnings
I am delighted to report that I have located the perfect site for our New Atlantis project. It is an idyllic island located approximately 90 miles southwest of Nassau in the Bahamas. It is called, with uncanny serendipity, Little San Salvador (San Salvador, of course being the island where Columbus first made landfall in the New World). ...
— Marshall T. Savage, Vol. 1 No.1 First Foundation News, July 1993 [1]
Living Universe Foundation
It was later renamed Living Universe Foundation around 2000.
Prominent members of LUF:
- Eric Hunting (the only substantial contributor from 2006 - 2016)
- Steve Carr [2]
- Keith Dauzat, former board member, Living Universe Foundation [3] [4]
- Charles "Chad" Lupkes, who advocates for a long-term approach and had a spirited exchange on the Space Show at the 1:00 mark [5]
Hunting and Dauzat were interviewed on 8 May 2011 for the Space Show [6]
Yahoo Group
The LUF existed as a Yahoo Groups discussion, which yielded hundreds of posts, until the group died around September 2013. [7]
The successor site, sea2space.org, no longer exists, so the historical record ends at this point:
The Living Universe Foundation is moving away from Yahoo Groups. Please be aware that posting on luf-team will close on September 9th, 2013. Please feel free to post on our new forums at http://sea2space.org
— Living Universe Foundation website
TMP2
From 2006, Eric Hunting pioneered the second version of the TMP book (TMP2). This resulted in the TMP2 site: [8]
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)
Other sites
6 Billion, a board game, was inspired by TMP [9]
Sources
Facebook page [10]
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/luf-team/info?guccounter=1