A request for past participants

[sprat.livejournal.com]

I've been setting up an automated archive for the due South Seekrit Santa challenge, and although it isn't looking as pretty as I hope it will in weeks to come, we're getting to that point where I want to make sure that everything works. So! If you participated in either of the first two years' challenges, I have a favour to ask of you: would you upload the story (or stories) you wrote for those previous years to the new archive?

The stories can be marked up with basic html tags (ie bold, italics, underlines, etc - just like they'd need to be if you were going to post them to LJ), but the file itself has to be in .txt format. To change that, all you'll need to do is open the file in your word processing program (Word or whatever) and then go to File > Save As and choose "plain text" as the format type.

There are more detailed instructions at the archive, if you need them. I'm also happy to answer any questions anybody might have--just email me at maintainer@crocolanthus.com, or comment here.

Oh, also--I am looking for four or five volunteers to help out with beta testing some additional features of the archive once the upload of older stories is finished. Comment here if you're interested--it'll only take a few minutes of your time and, um...it'll make Fraser really happy.