Preserving 9 years of logs of the #whatwg IRC channel

I would like to see the logs of the #whatwg channel on Freenode IRC
preserved in some way that makes them available to current and future Web
historians, and so I’m wondering about suggestions for how to best do that.

The logs are available from http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/

Those logs are relevant because over the last 9 years or so now, that
channel is where a lot of the discussion that has led to what we now call
HTML5 and the set of features it has brought to the Web has started and
iterated and evolved into what we see now.

A detailed list of some of the particular I mean is here:

  https://platform.html5.org/history/

Incidentally, the server where the logs have been getting recorded for
these 9 years is a one-person operation and along with getting a more
permanent archive set up somewhere, I would hope there might be a chance of
getting some kind of funding (no matter how modest) to the Krijn Hoetmer,
who had the prescience to recognize the value of the channel early on, and
who kept the logging going all these years mostly just at personal expense
(though he recently did get a handful of contributions to offset costs).

  —Mike

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Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike