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From: "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org>
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On 8/7/2016 5:00 PM, Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I'm not going to elaborate on the idea: I propose a weekly magazine (or
> whatever) of Lojbanists' poems (on some topic).
> Once a week, I would announce a topic, to which everyone (who can, and I
> think everyone can if they want; beginners would also be welcome) would
> write a poem. It could be short, long =E2=80=94 you'd decide.
> I think that writing seventeen syllables (if you'd write haiku all the
> time) a week is a thing that takes one minute, so I encourage everyone
> to try once I have heard suggestions here.
>
> Please share your thoughts with me,

LLG, the Lojban community organization, is attempting to get itself=20
reactivated.  Alas, for several years it was dependent on one person,=20
Robin Powell, who ran the website but also ran byfy and was doing the=20
revision for CLL (the red book).

Volunteerism dried up, and we didn't have anyone to act on suggestions=20
like the above.  I myself have been in declining health and had much=20
less time for Lojban in recent years.

We now have a new Board and officers.  I am delegating community=20
outreach to two of them (Curtis Franks and Karen Stein).  I am hoping=20
that they will post to this and other threads shortly (as well as to=20
IRC).  Please make your complaints about lack of organization to them,=20
as well as your suggestions for new initiatives that the community can=20
undertake.  They will have some capacity to act on their own, and will=20
be reporting to the LLG Board of Directors, so that ideas start turning=20
into action.

At the very least we should be able to coordinate setting aside a=20
prominent place on the website where new ideas can be posted, and maybe=20
get some people to assume leadership in motivating others to become=20
active and to stay involved.

There also has been discussion of a small quasi-competitive prize fund=20
that would be a reward for the most significant contributions to the=20
community.   There would be periodic fixed-amount prizes in several=20
categories, funded from the LLG budget (as well as any donations=20
specifically for that purpose).   The details have to be discussed, and=20
I will urge the two outreachers to lead discussion on that topic.

I urge people to offer their ideas, and more importantly their=20
commitment to act in support of ideas that are implemented.  99% of the=20
ideas proposed in the last several years have died simply because the=20
person attempting to lead the effort got zero volunteer response to help=20
in implementing them.

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier
President, LLG


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