From arj@nvg.org Mon Jan 02 05:44:42 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:44:43 -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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EtPzG-0002EA-5r for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:44:39 -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 9739194781 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:44:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:43:05 +0100 (CET) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Paying for BPFK work (was: Re: Election of officers concluded) In-Reply-To: <20051222182458.GE9783@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: References: <20051219070640.GB3514@ccil.org> <20051222182458.GE9783@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 44 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 Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:43:19AM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: >> Would we pay people to work on the BFPK? > > I've tried that; it doesn't seem to help. Well, it did work for me -- for a short period of time, when life was simpler than it is now. An idea that occured to me between Christmas and New Year's is to offer rewards that are *time-limited* -- ie. $10 to anyone who finishes this or that section by some set date, and no reward if later. By my count, there are 49 sections non-checkpointed sections left. Robin's offer is $10 per section. So letting the offer stand would cost roughly $500. With all that Robin has done for us, I think it is unacceptable to let him pay that much, out of pocket, just to get the BPFK done. But could the LLG take over the offer? I think we can afford that much. But I see two problems with this: 1) Some (most?) members of the board are also BPFK commissioners. If we pass rewards for BPFK work, we are basically using the LLG's money to pay ourselves. 2) If employing people in Virginia involves as much bureacracy as in Norway, it would be absolutely necessary to find a way of giving money to BPFK commissioners without turning them into LLG employees. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Let's have some real examples from a real, non-English language.