From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 05 13:28:39 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LfL7P-00030h-3p for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:28:39 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:28:39 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090305212839.GI27391@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20090305191021.GE27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B03EEA.3050305@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B03EEA.3050305@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 475 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 Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:06:50PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > $1200 seems like a LOT of money to get just 4 people there. And > if we are willing to spend $300 for one person, would we pay the > (higher amount - a quick look says around $500) for someone like > Arnt or one of the other overseas Lojbanists who might think it > so incredibly expensive as to be presumptuous to ask or pay $300 > towards their ticket price. I have already asked every major overseas Lojbanist; the refuse. > I'm not sure I would vote no, especially since I recognize the names, > and suspect that Robin could justify each based on their activity. But > I hesitate about setting such a precedent. I wasn't particularily planning to make this public. > I wonder if any of these be able to participate if we paid half > the ticket (and I assume someone is taking care of their hotel > and living costs, or the ticket isn't that helpful to them)? Actually, no, the hotel has not yet been worked out. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/