From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Mar 09 21:52:47 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LgtxP-0007ni-Sn for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:52:47 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:52:47 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090310045247.GH11968@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> <20090305235619.GO27391@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090305235619.GO27391@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 482 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 03:56:19PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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*? Still wondering about this. Still hoping someone will put together an actual proposal, since I'm not sure what people want here. -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/