From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 27 11:58:38 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgkBC-0003NL-9D for llg-members@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:58:38 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:58:38 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: Bob: Activity is low because it's a business meeting. Message-ID: <20090827185838.GR4151@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 768 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, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:45:06PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > > But there is no participation at all, and the members meeting > > seems to have become something to simply check off each year as > > a pro forma legal event, rather than something that involves the > > community in governing the organization. > > That's because it's a business meeting full of parlaimentarianism. > When the community knows it's going to be like that, they stay > away. Then they shouldn't be LLG members. The only reason to be an LLG member is to participate in this meeting. The LLG is a business organization; being a member means participating in that organization's meetings. If you want to help the *language*, go work on the BPFK. Unrelated: Bob, look at the credit card mail. Seriously. Right now. -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?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/