Received: from localhost ([::1]:47917 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1YobvP-0003X5-5I; Sat, 02 May 2015 11:14:03 -0700 Received: from eastrmfepo102.cox.net ([68.230.241.214]:36029) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1YobvG-0003Wn-H8 for llg-board@lojban.org; Sat, 02 May 2015 11:14:00 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo305 ([68.230.241.237]) by eastrmfepo102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20150502181348.CQMK21735.eastrmfepo102.cox.net@eastrmimpo305> for ; Sat, 2 May 2015 14:13:48 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.102] ([72.209.242.63]) by eastrmimpo305 with cox id P6Dn1q00J1Nn1eG016DnpQ; Sat, 02 May 2015 14:13:48 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.554513DC.0051,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=INfc/HTG c=1 sm=1 a=sOxKrxY1QYXBcFVBIkZEyQ==:17 a=JJ1bDv3c7YsA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=8YJikuA2AAAA:8 a=Kqjl9o7Ck-CXAv_c0CAA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=sOxKrxY1QYXBcFVBIkZEyQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <554513DC.1040404@lojban.org> Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 14:13:48 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: llg-board@lojban.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_bar: - Subject: Re: [llg-board] Call to Order, statement of Presence X-BeenThere: llg-board@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: llg-board@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: llg-board-bounces@lojban.org On 4/20/2015 6:08 PM, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG wrote: > The annual meeting finally being ended, I call to order the New LLG > Board of Directors for its meeting. I am not sure all the new members > have been added to the list, and the old members deleted, so I ask those > receiving this message please indicate their presence at the meeting. > > When all Board members are present, we will elect new officers for LLG. Timo has responded and said that he will not be present, so I guess we should move on to officer elections. I first recognize that Riley Martinez-Lynch (mukti) has expressed interest in becoming Secretary/Treasurer, that Robin has provided him with transition information for the job, and that he has been in fact doing the job since roughly the start of the year, authorized by Robin, and more recently by me. Candidates for office and/or nominators of others for office should look at the Bylaw descriptions for each office. This may be non-trivial because the new LLG web page doesn't have any obvious link to the organization and Bylaws, though I eventually found both. We have three offices to fill, President, Vice President, and Secretary/Treasurer. Current officers and members are on this page http://mw.lojban.org/papri/LLG_Members but the list may be outdated (Riley please check and update as appropriate). Robin Powell has de facto resigned as Secretary/Treasurer, per the above, and I believe as member as well. Veijo Vilva has resigned as Vice President due to health reasons. Becuase of Riley's status, let's get his position clarified first. Are there any other volunteer candidates or nominations for Secretary/Treasurer? I will allow until end-of-day Sunday for responses on this. President and Vice President need a little more consideration. I am a little reluctant to continue as President. As I am sure everyone has noticed, zo'o, I have been at best inconsistent in my timeliness in running meetings. I've also been unable to keep up my intended commitment to show up on IRC every Sunday noonish (EDT). Otherwise, I have probably been only minimally adequate in the leadership department, but I remain a major source of "institutional memory", which is important this year when most of the Board and at least 2 officer positions have turned over. I am willing to serve one more year as President, or as Vice President if the Board prefers. But I strongly desire that at least one person step forward as now-or-future President to fill the other position. If I am President, I will be calling on this person as VP to exercise several leadership activities in the coming year, including regular participation in IRC and reporting to the Board on what the community wants LLG to do. Here is my statement of "vision". The coming year will hopefully include the publication of the 1.1 edition of CLL through Lightning Source, and I'd like to see at least a start on producing a similarly updated edition of Nick Nicholas and Robin Turner's Lojban textbook, and perhaps an update to the Introduction to Lojban book already published through Lightning Source. If we get all that done, a printed English/Lojban dictionary would finally finish what I committed to some 25 years ago but still have not delivered. Only when we can point to a published and available grammar, textbook, and dictionary do I see us as capable of truly promoting the language beyond the sort of word-of-mouth efforts that have sufficed for the last 25 years. LLG has somewhere in the neighborhood of US$20K, some of which needs to be spent on the above publications, and we may need to break down and pay some people to do some of the work, either per Ali's proposal for a paid Project Manager or for people to actually get in and produce the page markups needed to publish the other books (possibly Robin Powell might be willing to consult on *how* to do this, but we should not be expecting him to be willing to actually do the work). We then need to decide HOW to promote the language in a larger way than has been done so far. This might involve spending a larger amount of money than we have, in which case we need to think about fundraising. Our status as a non-profit corporation (for which, in the US at least, donations result in tax benefits) should make fundraising easier. There are also newer fundraising techniques like crowd-funding that could work. In addition to fundraising, a long time ago it was proposed that we could approach corporations for equipment donations, which could include new server hardware for the website and possibly hardware or software needed for specific research activities (such donations are sometimes easier to get than cash donations). Our non-profit status is useful here as well, but someone needs to figure out what we need, who could supply it, and then communicate with that supplier for the donation. Beyond publication, there are other tasks that need to be done, including a couple of other things that were proposed during the annual meeting, but which didn't get a motion or a second and were discussed only minimally. I'd like that for the next annual meeting we can have some things to decide during the meeting that are ready for action, rather than ideas that few have even thought about. The members list can be used to discuss such topics outside the formal meeting. I don't have the knowhow for many of these activities, and even less have the time and energy for them these days. And I don't seem to have the effective leadership skills for the IRC (and Skype) based community that I had during the snail-mail and live-Logfest-annual-meeting era. We need a President who can LEAD the community, and I am no longer that person. The one activity I am actually doing is my long-postponed Arabian Nights translation. I have a long-delayed LogFlash statistical analysis project that I have since forgotten the statistics expertise for. This was going to provide some insight on whether the gismu algorithm actually produced learnable words. I'd like to find someone else who could finally do that analysis. I'd like to see us produce something more sophisticated in the way of communicating activity news between the various Lojban communities. The old Ju'i Lobypli and le lojbo karni publications may no longer be viable these days, and perhaps what guskant was proposing in the annual meeting could point in a new direction. But expecially if the community is to grow, we need something. In addition to other things, if I am president and the other person is VP, I am going to call on whoever is elected to be an on-call chair for this meeting and for the annual meeting - someone I can work with who will keep the meetings going when I disappear for a week in the middle of things. So I can see my serving as a transition leader for another year or so, but new person/people needs to step up for the longer term, and at least one such person is needed now for LLG office. So I put my name in for President, being quite willing to change that to VP, or even to drop out, if one or more others are willing to step up. I am open to other suggestions as well. I'll allow a couple more days for others to speak up, but will not hold up the Secretary/Treasurer election, while this is discussed. lojbab _______________________________________________ llg-board mailing list llg-board@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-board