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From: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 16:03:03 -0400
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Subject: [llg-board] "New" Board Meeting
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The 2016 annual meeting having concluded, the new Board is exactly the 
same as the old Board.

While we could effectively just continue the old meeting, I'm going to 
call a new meeting to order.  mukti may wish to produce real minutes for 
the last years' meeting, and that implies a stopping point.

So all Board members, please respond with an indication of your presence 
at the meeting.

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To fulfill Karen's motion from the annual meeting, we ought to have new 
officers in place before the end of the month.

So we can speed things up if people indicate their ideas on the officers 
for this "year" (which in fact will only be a couple of months if the 
2017 meeting starts soon and doesn't last for half a year).  The 
election of officers is of course the first order of business.

If mukti is able to give a more coherent account of finances and book 
sales, that would also be helpful.  LLG seems to be getting more than 
$100 per month income from book sales, but I don't know what we are 
making per book or how many books are being sold, since we don't get 
monthly reports any more from Lightning Source (and never did get them 
from amazon.com)
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I am present, of course.

I suspect that no one besides mukti is either willing or able to do the 
jobs of Secretary and Treasurer.  (Did we actually separate those two 
offices, or was that merely a proposal?).

Assuming that she is willing, I think that Karen should take over as 
President.  She did a better job than I did of keeping track of what had 
been said during the meeting regarding how to conduct the next meeting, 
and seems to have ideas on how that next meeting should be conducted. 
In any event, she presumably knows what she wants to happen at the 
beginning of next month to prepare for next meeting.

I'm not sure I know how to conduct the meeting much better than I have, 
given my prejudices, and my apparent inability these days to keep 
focused on matters Lojbanic for the length of time needed to finish a 
meeting.  And I think we need to do better in order to reinstill a sense 
of activity and competence in the organization (as opposed to the 
competence of many individual Lojbanists in the language).

(I could probably do just fine if we were still meeting at my house or 
at a specific time on IRC, both modes that we utilized up till sometime 
after 2000, but the last year has shown me that I'm just not keeping 
myself together week after week.  And I doubt that it is just my health 
that is causing this, though Nora and I both are experiencing our share 
of "senior moments" when our memories let us down.)

I'd probably accept being drafted for another "year", but I don't think 
that would be the best option.  Better would be to have me as Vice 
President, ready to step up if the President somehow can't do the job 
but presuming that s/he really can.  But I'm not even sure that I would 
be the best choice for VP given the last couple of years.

lojbab

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