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From: "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org>
Organization: The Logical Language Group, Inc.
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On 8/7/2016 5:00 PM, Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I'm recently worried too much about that not much is currently
> happening. I imagine a perfect Lojbanic community as a place where
> people do lots of translations and projects and such. What I see is the
> opposite: a place where everyone is stingy about helping, talking,
> writing, and complains about it.
> Up to this point, this email really IS a complaint; now I want to
> propose something that would solve the problem. I think there should be
> a place for people to volunteer to other projects. Everyone that needs
> help or wants to start a community project would be welcome.
> I'm utterly amazed about the Crash Course: it's a one man project, and I
> think it's worth recognition and work from others. Most projects could
> be completed within a few days or weeks if every Lojbanist wrote one
> line of Lojban/English every day.
> I'd like to work on some way to make the community more active, and not
> just a random arrangement of people with their own lives.
>
> One last question: why does nobody develop the Interactive Story? Please
> add something to it.

Probably because nobody has even heard of it.  This needs to change.

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

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

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

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

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

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

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier
President, LLG

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