X-Digest-Num: 368 Message-ID: <44114.368.2020.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:18:12 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Subject: Re: LogFest 2000? X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 2020 Content-Length: 2853 Lines: 52 At 05:26 PM 02/18/2000 -0600, Steven Belknap wrote: >Perhaps LogFest 2000 could be a place/time for discussion of Loglan/lojban >rapprochement. Have you made plans for LogFest as of yet? No. I have sent feelers out to a couple of key people asking when they would like it to be, but feeling multiple people out via email sometimes takes a month or more. It will be in July or August, as usual here in Fairfax VA. We bend over backwards for people coming from out of the area to fit their schedule, and in particular are hoping to have fluent Lojbanist Nick Nicholas attend again as he did last year. But I have not yet heard from him on his schedule, nor from others such as yourself who have expressed interest in coming from out of town (though I admit I have not yet asked you and others - we wanted to weed a few dates out first). Certainly if TLI people want to attend and have discussion on rapprochement that would require voting member input, that is a good time for such a meeting, as voting members make it a priority to attend, but a good number of the voting members are worldwide and can never attend any meeting in person (we consult via phone and/or IRC to include these people on key issues, but members' meetings are rather prone to length and disorder. We can have a LLG directors meeting a bit more easily apart from LogFest, since most of the directors can make it into town for a weekend meeting at TLI convenience given reasonable notice (and we have easier time meeting the agenda/notice requirements for a special director's meeting). If we had a preliminary idea as to what the issues were and could sound out members in advance, say at LogFest, that would be a more productive meeting to conduct *business*. The only business that would HAVE to involve members would be something requiring a Bylaw change, and we have provisions to do that, albeit very slowly, at any time necessary. I would also feel compelled to get approval from the full membership to overturn any position that was originally set by the membership (this would include any weakening of the Lojban baseline, but I already know from informal member consultations that there is no support at all for such a weakening, which is basically what And Rosta said). But if the goal of a get-together is not business, but rather community rebuilding, LogFest is the place for it to happen, and we can leave the business for Alex and me to work out in consultation with our respective boards and/or memberships as appropriate. ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org (newly updated!)