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Subject: [llg-board] community outreach representatives
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As I promised Curtis Franks and Karen Stein are named as Community 
outreach spokespersons for the Board, to undertake projects for me.  The 
intent is that this work will naturally serve as training in community 
leadership so that one or both will be (and feel) qualified to take over 
as President, so that I can finally retire.

I had a few ideas for specific tasks that I want them to undertake 
first, but circumstances have (as they often will) overtaken my ideas.

There have been two threads in the last several days on Lojban List that 
are relevant.  "taking action" and "one poem a week"  In those threads, 
Lojbanists in the community have effectively ASKED for someone to take 
leadership of specific activities that they are interested in.  So 
rather than work on my ideas, let us start with the ideas that the 
community is talking about.

I eventually want to delegate different tasks and topics to each of you, 
but it seems critical that we not let this opportunity go.  So I would 
like BOTH of you to

1)read the threads on those subject lines,
2) introduce yourselves,
3) indicate what you think LLG could do to help on the issues that are 
raised, and ideally find at least one person besides yourself for each 
activity, so that progress can be made even if one of you is unable to 
participate for a while, and
4) report back to the Board within a couple of weeks indicating what is 
happening as a result of all this.

I have posted on those threads indicating that you two are being 
assigned to coordinate outreach on these initiatives.  My post was as 
follows:
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> LLG, the Lojban community organization, is attempting to get itself
> reactivated. Alas, for several years it was dependent on one person,
> Robin Powell, who ran the website but also ran byfy and was doing the
> revision for CLL (the red book).
>
> Volunteerism dried up, and we didn't have anyone to act on
> suggestions like the above. I myself have been in declining health and had much less
> time for Lojban in recent years.
>
> We now have a new Board and officers. I am delegating community
> outreach to two of them (Curtis Franks and Karen Stein). I am hoping
> that they will post to this and other threads shortly (as well as to
> IRC). Please make your complaints about lack of organization to them, as
> well as your suggestions for new initiatives that the community can
> undertake. They will have some capacity to act on their own, and will be
> reporting to the LLG Board of Directors, so that ideas start turning
> into action.
>
> At the very least we should be able to coordinate setting aside a
> prominent place on the website where new ideas can be posted, and maybe
> get some people to assume leadership in motivating others to become
> active and to stay involved.
>
> There also has been discussion of a small quasi-competitive prize
> fund that would be a reward for the most significant contributions to the
> community. There would be periodic fixed-amount prizes in several
> categories, funded from the LLG budget (as well as any donations
> specifically for that purpose). The details have to be discussed, and I
> will urge the two outreachers to lead discussion on that topic.
>
> I urge people to offer their ideas, and more importantly their
> commitment to act in support of ideas that are implemented. 99% of the
> ideas proposed in the last several years have died simply because the
> person attempting to lead the effort got zero volunteer response to help
> in implementing them.
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So please, both of you, take it from there.  Post to me or to the Board 
as needed.

I will suggest that there should be some corner on the LLG home page set 
up for such projects (or a link to a single page), listing the projects, 
important URLs, and the name/email of the person leading the effort on 
that project.  Each listed project should indicate what activities we 
would like volunteers for, and should be regularly updated with 
progress, so that people know something is actually happening.

I know nothing about modifying the web pages.  You can decide between 
you how this gets done.  mukti has the authority to approve changes to 
the web pages.  gleki has experience in actually implementing changes 
(but others may also have that skill).  So you'll have to agree on who 
is to take action on making the changes.

If for some reason there is dispute over who is to do what, then bring 
the issue to me for resolution, but it would be better if you can 
resolves such issues without me.

I expect that we will all learn something from this exercise, which will 
hopefully teach us how to go about this job of community outreach, and 
without lojbab actively involved and micromanaging things.

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Questions, and any suggestions from other Board members, are welcome, 
and are in order.

lojbab


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