From arj@nvg.org Mon Dec 19 12:07:05 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1EoRHg-0000AR-8E for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:07:04 -0800 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F4F94799 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:06:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:05:26 +0100 (CET) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Election of officers concluded In-Reply-To: <20051219070640.GB3514@ccil.org> Message-ID: References: <20051219070640.GB3514@ccil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 21 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, John Cowan wrote: > In accordance with my previous messages, and since there have been > no further postings, Arnt Richard Johansen is elected President, Jay > Kominek is elected Vice President, and Robin Lee Powell is re-elected > Secretary/Treasurer of the Logical Language Group. > > I take the privilege of outgoing presidency to be the first to > congratulate the new officers and to thank Robin for his fine ongoing > work. Thanks. I cannot adequately express how unbelievable and surreal it is to be elected to this position. Perhaps the best I could compare it with is that of a long-time fan of the X-files, who is suddenly asked by Chris Carter to step in as Executive Producer. The analogy falters, because unlike the X-files, Lojban has a much larger and more active following now than ten years ago. So, to everyone on the board, thanks for your support. > I turn the meeting over to Arnt. Normally Board meetings remain in > session all year long, but the list stays quiet unless there is something > to do. Thanks, John. Well, it's soon vacation time for many of us, but let's nevertheless start *thinking* about what we are going to do next year. In my opinion, the single most important thing we as an organisation have to do in 2006, is to complete the baseline through BPFK. I observe that newcomers are worried and/or confused by the perceived instability of the language. We can go on insisting that BPFK changes will be very few and minor all we want, but I'm afraid that as long as this state of affairs persist, potential newcomers will be dissuaded from learning the language. So I want all of you to spend a few moments during the holidays to brainstorm ways for the LLG to encourage existing BPFK members to do their work and/or new, competent Lojbanists to become members of the BPFK. Also, fundraising. I have talked with Robin and Matt about establishing an informal, non-corporate organisation for co-ordinating Lojban activities. This organisation would either have paid membership, or encourage its members to buy support memberships in the LLG. In either case, the LLG would handle all the money, and finance all the activities. Bob said that "[...] no one can figure out anything noteworthy to offer such regular donors, other than perhaps their name on a web page." Well, why don't we just do that? Robin, can you make a system whereby donors of >=$50 can opt in to have their name and amount donated added to a sort of "hall of fame" web page? I don't think this could do any harm, if anything it would encourage donations. Well, I think that should be it for now. I'll be going home for Yule tomorrow, and intend to not read any mail until January 3rd (as part of my RSI management strategy). In case of a Lojbanic emergency (smirk) you can reach me on my cell phone at (+47) 970 69 368. I wish all of you a pleasant holiday and an active 2006. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Att handla en kvarting på Systemet kan vara oerhört sofistikerad på ett digitalt plan. -- Z mag@zine