From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 21 21:42:34 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EpJDk-0006ja-Nk for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:42:32 -0800 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:42:32 -0800 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Election of officers concluded Message-ID: <20051222054232.GJ18265@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20051219070640.GB3514@ccil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 24 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:05:26PM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > 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. Well, the analogy also falters because even now, the X-Files has a much larger and more active following than we do... :-) > So, to everyone on the board, thanks for your support. You're welcome. > > 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. Hear, hear! > 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. Absolutely. > 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. Mind if I take a pass? I've been doing this for months, and have roped friends in to doing it, and so on. > 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. I can certainly do that. How far back in my logs would you like me to go to find people to retroactively do this to? Can someone else draft a page on the Wiki for this? Wiki stuff is so easy that I'd really rather not spend my Lojban time on it if I can help it. > 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. Thanks for the contact info. > I wish all of you a pleasant holiday and an active 2006. Yaaay! -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/