From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 14 13:30:08 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fqc06-0000bU-QF for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:30:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:30:06 -0700 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Raising money: we should tell people how donations will be spent Message-ID: <20060614203006.GS5960@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 123 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 Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:30:23PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > It is common knowledge that people are more likely to give money > to an organisation if they know how that money will be spent. The > current Donations page[1] is somewhat lacking in this regard. > > Therefore, I'd like to add something like the following blurb to > the page: > > The LLG is planning to publish new books, such as the planned > Lojban-English dictionary, and to resume publication of the > journal ''ju'i lobypli''. To make this possible, we are > seeking donations. The Logical Language Group, Inc. is a > tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific- educational organization, and > donations may be tax deductible within the U.S. > > Is this factually accurate? Well, no, which is why I removed similar wording a few months ago. If someone gave us $10K right this minute, we would spend it on... Nothing. Nothing I'm aware of, anyways. What we *need* are active, motivated volunteers willing to learn the language well enough to participate in the BPFK and so on. -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/