From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 05 13:43:56 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LfLMC-0003Vf-FG for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:43:56 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:43:56 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090305214356.GJ27391@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20090305191021.GE27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B03EEA.3050305@lojban.org> <20090305212839.GI27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B0473D.2060508@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B0473D.2060508@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 477 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 04:42:21PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: >>> 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. > > Since I believe that our books are open to any voting member by > law (technically I am supposed to have a copy of the minutes and > a proper financial report available here at our legal address for > inspection), and potentially could be looked at by the IRS, that > is NOT something we want to do. > > We can limit explicit notification to the membership, but the > membership should be informed. Especially since this would be > the largest chunk of money we've spent on anything but > publications. public != membership. I don't mind telling the membership; they can always overrule us or whatever. If every member wants money, well, there's only so much. OTOH, telling people we're actually spending money on something might encourage donations; dunno. -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/