From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Nov 10 08:13:59 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:14:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from eastrmmtao01.cox.net ([68.230.240.38]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiZ0m-0002J3-9S for llg-board@lojban.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:13:57 -0800 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061110161350.BSGM17820.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:13:50 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id l4Ct1V00J3y5FKc0000000; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:12:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4554A4BA.4000907@lojban.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:11:38 -0500 From: Robert LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: LCS Board of Directors (fwd) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 248 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:45:31 -0800 > From: Sai Emrys > To: Mark Rosenfelder , > Henrik Theiling , > Jeffrey Henning , > Sarah Higley , > Ellen Wright , > David J. Peterson , Doug Ball , > John E Clifford , > John Quijada , Matt Pearson > , > president@lojban.org, lawrence@kli.org > Subject: LCS Board of Directors > > Hello. > > As part of incorporating the Language Creation Conference into a > formal nonprofit organization (California 501(c)(3)), we will need to > have a board of directors. I'm inviting you to be on it. > > The new organization would have as its charter the promotion of > conlang*ing* primarily, and conlang*s* secondarily (with no bias for > or against any particular language), though all means at its disposal. > Primarily this means the LCC and a new cross-conlinguistic journal > publication (as per my earlier announcement on CONLANG and ZBB); > secondarily it could mean other publications (eg the Conlang Books > Project), partnerships with other conlang related organizations, > research sponsorship, academic advocacy, grant seeking, etc. > > It could serve as an umbrella organization to any others with related > goals; the KLI and LLG for example are already incorporated, but > otherwise would be good subsets of our mission. (Of course, any > subsets should operate at a break-even or net gain unless they are > critical to the organization's primary goal of promoting > conlang*ing*.) I would invite representatives of the Quenya and > Esperanto movements as well, but don't know who would be appropriate. > > The BoD would probably be best at ~9-15 people. Of the BoD (or > possibly separately) we would need a few officers - a president, vice > president, secretary, and treasurer. It would probably be helpful for > those officers to reside in California, but it's not necessary. It can > meet by conference (e.g. Skypecast or shared IM of some sort), so > distance is not a great issue. John Q, if you're willing, your > location (and semipermanence therein) would be potentially helpful to > serve as the 'primary office'. I volunteer myself as president & > chariman of BoD. > > The startup costs (about $250 most likely) can be paid for out of the > carryover from LCC1. I see no particular advantage in LLG being a formal supporter of this organization at this point. We aren't really trying to promote "conlanging" per se. And we DO have a bias for a particular language, and *therefore* against others. While we acknowledge that other conlangs exist, and are interesting to many of our community, as an organization we cannot be interested in them; their existence demands the sort of respect that we want others to feel towards our language, but promoting their development existence is outside of our organizational mission and charter. We also need no umbrella organization. If they have a specific project whose purposes cohere with some of our goals, I would have no problem with us working with them on that specific project. I have no problem with the LLG president serving on this Board as an individual, NOT ex-officio of his position as LLG president, which would suggest a formal tie between the two organizations. But I suspect that Arnt is in fact being invited because of his title, and not necessarily his personal interests. I also suggest that John Cowan, who has been one of our leaders, and a leader of the conlanging community as well, having an interest in the broader aspects of conlanging, deserves our recommendation for consideration for their Board. I'd love to see him more active in Lojban again, but he has a variety of interests and this fits them. They also might consider Rick Harrison, who has had no ties to our organization, but who has shown longstanding energy and leadership in the conlanging community not specific to any single project. I note that the organization makes no mention of auxlanging, and their attitude towards that aspect of conlanging is unknown.