From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 01 12:22:25 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ehuwi-0006K7-1J for llg-members@lojban.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:22:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:22:24 -0800 To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: 2005 LLG Annual Meeting Thread Message-ID: <20051201202224.GU18294@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <20051115212824.GM8740@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20051126011734.GX20158@miranda.org> <20051128062658.GA2289@miranda.org> <20051128081254.GM16858@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20051201040334.GF18294@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20051201200613.GR18294@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 121 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:18:01PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > On 12/1/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Well, this isn't the board, just the membership (something you > > seem to have been confused about a few times), but point taken. > > > You said earlier, Actually, I said nothing of the kind, that was someone else. > "You were previously nominated for membership, which is like being > a stockholder in the LLG corporation. Now you've been nominated to > sit on the board of directors. Your name gets put down on a piece > of paper sent to the state of Virginia, you get on the magical top > secret mailing list, and you get to vote on the officers of the > corporation." Umm, sure, but what does this have to do with the BPFK, which was what my original post was about? > Other than the last clause this isn't much of a difference from a > functional perspective. It says nothing about qualifications or > responsibilities. Tommy Whitlock is completely absentee, and for > all we know might be dead. But because he's a founder, we're not > dropping him. So obviously the standard is quite low. If I'm gonna > be the same as a guy who, for all we know, doesn't even possess > the qualification of a breathing warm body, I don't know why I > need to know the difference between the membership and the board. > Know what I mean? For the third time: Tommy is *not on the board*. The board, in theory, actually does stuff. *I* certainly work very, very hard on the LLG as a board member, and would love to have other board members who are equally dedicated. The difference between the membership and the board is that the membership is only called upon to make decisions once a year, whereas the board is available to make decisions at any time. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/