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--- about_the_game:guiding_principles_history [2025/05/19 21:00] – [On Goal 2: Democracy in Practice] adminsteve
+++ about_the_game:guiding_principles_history [2025/05/19 21:11] (current) – [AOI History] adminsteve
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   - **[199x (?)] TBD:** Some history here, maybe Ken can chime in
   - **[199x (?)] Erabus takes over:** Erabus took the reigns for hosting/administration
-  - **[June 1999: Playerwipe]** To address the rampant cheating / ill-gotten equipment / etc., with support from the majority of players through a vote, Erabus conducted a player-wipe that erased everyone's characters, and everyone started from scratch.
+  - **[June 1999] Playerwipe:** To address the rampant cheating / ill-gotten equipment / etc., with support from the majority of players through a vote, Erabus conducted a player-wipe that erased everyone's characters, and everyone started from scratch.
-  - **[20xx (?): Cerebus takes over]** Cerebus took reigns for hosting/administration
+  - **[20xx (?)] Cerebus takes over:** Cerebus took reigns for hosting/administration
-  - **[October 2013: Steve takes over]** Steve took reigns for hosting/administration
+  - **[October 2013] Steve takes over:** Steve took reigns for hosting/administration
+  - **[April 2025] Focus on documentation & portability:** To reduce future headaches in maintaining the mud, this wiki has been started to serve as a more permanent set of documentation, and the mud infrastructure has configured to be more portable, with a more distributed disaster-recovery approach to ensure it stays up & alive.
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 I - Steve - am committed to keeping AOI alive for as long as I live — and I trust myself to do that. But it's worth planning for the unexpected:
-  - **A)** I could die.
+  * **A)** I could die.
-  - **B)** I could suffer a major life experience or get a brain tumor that alters my personality & priorities, to the point where I am no longer aligned with all of the above.
+  * **B)** I could suffer a major life experience, or get a brain tumor, or traumatic brain injury, that alters my personality & priorities, to the point where I am no longer aligned with all of the above.
-  - **C)** I could hand off AOI to someone currently aligned with our vision, who later experience A or B.
+  * (aka anyone who is not an asshole today, can easily become an asshole tomorrow due to factors outside of their control)
+  * **C)** I could hand off AOI to someone currently aligned with our vision, who later experience A or B.
-The solution:  The AOI game server, the documentation on how to make it work, and the means to run it, need to be distributed on a regular basis to ~5 or so key founding members.  As key founding members fall off the radar in interest/desire to maintain, we should consider replacing them in the circle with others who do care.
+**The solution:**  The AOI game server, the documentation on how to make it work, and the means to run it, need to be distributed on a regular basis to ~5 or so key founding members.  As key founding members fall off the radar in interest/desire to maintain, we should consider replacing them in the circle with others who do care.
 Redundancy, shared responsibility, and transparency are key to making sure AOI outlives any one person.  Or at least lives until the last remaining person who cares about this place is no longer here to care.