From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 21 13:06:48 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy972-0008BR-2Z for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:06:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:06:48 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: 2010 Annual Meeting - Old Business Message-ID: <20100921200647.GH30871@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <4C8C2009.7060606@lojban.org> <4C8F787E.9000101@lojban.org> <4C97E04A.4030007@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C97E04A.4030007@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 966 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 Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:29:30PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > ni'o New Old Business topic: byfy > > What (if anything) can we do (or should we do) as an organization > to help this effort move along? > > Specific item: Lindar has offered to work intensely on byfy for a > period of time in return for several hundred dollars to cover his > rent for a month. > > Do we want to start paying people to do Lojban work, especially > work that other Lojbanists are (intermittently) working on, and > not getting paid to do? > > Neither Robin nor I knows the possible ramifications of "hiring" > Lindar - whether we would have to treat him as an employee and do > withholding and social security, and other legal stuff. If anyone > knows someone with relevant expertise that they could ask, it > would be much appreciated. More specifically: I have outright refused to determine how to do this legally (it's across state lines) or to fill out the required paperwork. I've been doing the books for years, and I *HATE* it. I'm not adding this unless someone does all the research and hands me a *really* clear set of instructions. Sorry, but I have to draw the line somewhere, or risk hating this project due to its association with work I loathe. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/