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From: Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>
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On 12/19/05, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, John Cowan wrote:
>
> 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 need a lot more information. What would be done with the money?
Would we pay people to work on the BFPK? What purpose would the
informal organization serve that LLG does not already serve? With this
very vague and non-detailed description it seems totally redundant so
far.
-epkat