From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 05 15:56:19 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LfNQJ-0000J1-JY for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:56:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:56:19 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090305235619.GO27391@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> <20090305214356.GJ27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B06356.9080901@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B06356.9080901@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 480 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 06:42:14PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: >> OTOH, telling people we're actually spending money on something >> might encourage donations; dunno. > > It wouldn't hurt to ask along with reporting to the membership. > > If we get donations from among the membership, we can consider > > I do like Arnt's suggestion that we set a budget limit - perhaps > that we say 10% of whatever is in the bank account, plus any > specific donations that are made in a request for such specific > donations. 10%? We're not using the money for anything. What are you saving the 90% *for*? -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/