From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Wed Feb 26 01:26:19 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Wed, 26 Feb 92 01:26 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA27251; Tue, 25 Feb 92 23:42:21 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA18682; Tue, 25 Feb 92 23:30:24 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA23478; Tue, 25 Feb 92 23:27:14 EST Message-Id: <9202260427.AA23478@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 1920; Tue, 25 Feb 92 23:25:45 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 0347; Tue, 25 Feb 92 23:24:55 EST Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 23:24:24 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: financial X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO Myapologies to any of you who donated money last year and have been waiting for your donation receipt. I expect to send them out this week. The ned- of year finances got thoroughly bollixed up with the very late fund-raising d drive coupled with my rather intense working on the generation 1 books. While the fund raising drive was not as successful as last years, we finished the year only $500 in the hole, with about $4000. in the bank. Since refundable balances were only about $3500., this means that we have sufficient net worth to pay off balances for the first time since we incorporated. We still owe quite a bit in legal fees, and are about to spend a chunk on book publishing and advertising, but my rather drastic austerity measures of the last several months are slowly paying off. Thi smeans that I will be putting together Ju'i Lobypli #16 in a week or two, after I get caught up to date in finances, mail off about 20 delayed orders, and fiish the place structure revision. JL is mostly written (by others) so I need more to edit than to write it. Expect it out sometime in March. The updated gismu list will be put out for review when I start on JL. Then in about 2-3 weeks, I will have JL out the door and will start putting the first book together. No predictions yet, but I'm reasonably sure it will be out before LogFest. I'm open to suggestions for a title for the book, a reference book that will be mostly dictionary, but a bit of other things. I've taken to calling it an ur-dictioanry. The other note on JL regards subscriptions and subscription prices. JL16 will be going out to most everyone who got JL15, about 240 people. This will be the last issue sent without a subscription. Unfortunately, we have received just less than 60 forms back, so the subscriber list is going to drop before JL17 unless more of you act soon. The small response means that we are setting the subscription price at $28 for US and Canada and US$35 for elsewhere, except that those in Australia/New Zealand will be receiving their copies from Major at his (somewhat lower) cost. There is a possibility that Scandinavian Lojbanists will get a similar benefit, courtesy of Chris Arnold in Sweden. The subscription price will cover 4 issues, and we should be back regularly on a 3 month publishing cycle. One last bit of news, unfortunately tragic. Athelstan, one of our local DC Lojban leaders and a Board member was critically injured in an auto accident yesterday. I have little to report about how he is doing - we don't know much. I ask all of you to include him in your thoughts or prayers as appropriate. lojbab