From - Wed Feb 14 12:52:09 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA28478 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:08:26 -0500 Message-Id: <199602132008.PAA28478@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id F15825EF ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:35:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:32:57 -0500 Reply-To: David Barton Sender: Lojban list From: David Barton Subject: Why does Lojban make the world a better place? To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1475 Well, as the baseline truly draws near and the time for publishing the set of books likewise draws near, I am taking a stab at looking for some funding for our initial publication run. I have a kind of nod from lojbab to start locating possible funding sources, writing to foundations, and other such things (as long as I don't generate more things for him to do!). A large part of this is going to be justifying why Lojban is a good thing. Not just a fun thing to do, or interesting, or unusual, or intellectually stimulating, but "good" in the sense of making the world a better place. Why should a foundation or philantropist give money to us instead of feeding starving children in India? So I am soliciting two things: 1) Any ideas anyone has for funding sources, please do let me know. I am developing my own list by various nefarious means, but if anyone knows of someone who is predisposed to listen to us, I would be *very* happy for suggestions. 2) Reasons why Lojban is inherently, intrinsicly valuable. Why does Lojban make the world better? How does Lojban make the world better? If Lojban does not exist in twenty years, how will be all be the poorer? Any ideas here will also be greatly appreciated. Thanks, all. Wish me luck. Dave Barton <*> dlb@wash.inmet.com )0( http://www.inmet.com/~dlb