From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 24 16:36:53 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzHoz-0004AD-M2 for llg-members@lojban.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:36:53 -0700 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:36:53 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: 2010 Annual Meeting - byfy Message-ID: <20100924233653.GF30871@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <4C97E2AD.5060500@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C97E2AD.5060500@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 982 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 06:39:41PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > Here is Lindar's message. > > Lindar Greenwood wrote: > >> >There has been talk and suggestion amongst people that hiring > >> >somebody to finish/work on the BPFK project is a real > >> >possibility. I would be willing to dedicate time out of my day > >> >specifically to work on the BPFK formal definitions. I would > >> >like to negotiate a price, but I'm not sure what is reasonable > >> >or affordable. At six dollars an hour (two below statutory > >> >rate in California) for 15 hours a week, that would come to > >> >some 300$, which to me sounds like way too much, but at the > >> >same time, that's only 2.5 hours a day with one day off, which > >> >is not much work. If my rent (545$/mo.) was paid each month, I > >> >would spend 8-12 hours a day, six days a week working on the > >> >project. However, Robin tells me that this is nowhere near > >> >feasible, but I thought I would put the offer on the table as > >> >it stands. I have the time and the knowhow to finish this > >> >project on my own, I just can't afford it. > >> > > >> >So, as per the suggestion of Robin Powell, I am e-mailing you > >> >to notify the LLG that I am willing to work, officially or > >> >unofficially, in exchange for a reasonable pay, on anything > >> >which the LLG needs completed. This includes the formal > >> >definitons, the dictionary project, CLL2, any translations > >> >necessary, paid travel for business affairs, anything similar, > >> >and perhaps any manual labour required. > >> > > >> >Thank you for your time. > > Robin made some comments on the matter in a message to the Board - > (email dated 10 Sep.), which included a judgement of Lindar's > skills and how much work he could reasonably be expected to get > done. I don't know if Robin's evaluation is unchanged, but I > would prefer in any case to have him speak for himself, and not > quote the email. I'm sorry, speak for myself about what? And what did whatever I would speak about have to do with the quote from Lindar? -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/