From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 02 12:39:28 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:39:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EtWSk-0006Ku-W2 for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:39:27 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:39:26 -0800 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Two organizations Message-ID: <20060102203926.GD4087@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20051219070640.GB3514@ccil.org> <43AB97DF.8030703@lojban.org> <20051226195753.GB5289@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060102042644.GJ4087@chain.digitalkingdom.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: 53 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, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:22:25AM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: [snip] > This page about the UEA lists activities and goals. Up until the > phrase "For 51 years", almost every sentence on the page describes > something to _do._ The UEA is not just names on a list. I would > support an organization similar to that for Lojban. Excellent. In fact, one of the reasons you got only shrugs from me is that I knew that Arnt Richard had a better idea of what was wanted than I did, and that he was away from e-mail. :-) > What is ULA? > > The Universal Lojban Association > > The Universal Lojban Association was founded in 2006 as an > organization of individual Lojbanists. ULA works to promote > Lojban. Its statute lists the following four goals: > > * to promote the use of Lojban. > > * to create venues and contexts for the use of Lojban online > and offline, to organize, fund, and attend Lojban teaching, > speaking and socializing activities, and Lojbanic artistic and > literary collaboration. > > * to develop and beta-test computer applications for the > language. > > * to nurture and assist those who are considering learning > Lojban as a hobby, to be a test group of experimentation > subjects for linguistics, psychology, philosophy, > anthropology, sociology, and education. > > * to encourage scientists in the above fields to formulate and > perform experiments on Lojban-speakers. > > ULA will be a Lojban publisher, the largest mail-order Lojban > bookstore in the world, the secretariat of the semi-annual world > Lojban congress, and an information center. It will have an online > library, and its network of activists will be the largest and most > international in the movement. > > It is not necessary to have a title in order to contribute to ULA. > You can do this in dozens of ways, often quite simple. Regularly > contributing to a fund or foundation. Accepting and fulfilling the > tasks of a ULA delegate. Recruiting other members among your > acquaintances. Paying dues for a friend in a poor country. > Connecting your Lojban club with clubs in other countries and > continents. Discussing the activity of ULA in your club or > national Lojban association. Collaborating with the LLG, xartum, > or an affiliated specialized association. And so forth... All of this looks good, although *technically*, it'll be the LLG that does the publishing, but that can be behind the scenes. Part of the point here is for the ULA (or whatever) to *not* have to handle money, so it'll funnel donations to the LLG and then get the LLG to pay for things. -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/