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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:44:31 -0400
From: "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org>
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Following are the four topics that have been mentioned for consideration 
under New Business.  Ali has been most patient for a few months waiting 
for us to return to his proposal, so we should probably discuss it 
first.  Otherwise, I leave it to the membership as to which should be 
discussed.

On 3/12/2015 8:40 PM, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG wrote:
> 1) Ali's project manager proposal, which should probably be
> re-introduced as a motion for discussion when I call for it.

Dealt with in a separate message.

> 2) Last Sunday, gleki, Ilmen and I, with apparently selpa'i listening
> only, had a patched Skype conversation with a Brian Wernham of a company
> called NooLearn in the UK, and his assistant.  They are interested in
> alpha-testing of their software system with a group of Lojbanists, which
> will hopefully create some sort of on-line Lojban courseware (MOOC
> platform (MOOC = Massive Open Online Course)), which would be made
> available to us (and others) under a Creative Commons license.  The
> alpha-test would probably involve getting some number of Lojbanists
> together in one place for a half-day closed-room effort at testing/using
> the system, and I think there will be additional online testing that
> people can help asynchronously.
>
> One suggestion was to have this take place as part of LogFest, which I
> understand Pierre is putting together for July either in New York or
> possibly at my place here in Washington DC (or perhaps at a nearby
> hotel, which might be necessary in order to support their test).  I
> believe that the organization would be paying for any special needs, and
> might be willing to assist a few people in getting to the test location.
>   Another possibility would be to get European Lojbanists together in
> some single locale for the testing.
>
> So in New Business, we will discuss whether the membership wishes LLG to
> support this effort, and whether LogFest is the best time for getting
> together (or whether this might too-seriously disrupt the ability for
> other activities).   I believe I have a little more information, but we
> may have to ask the nooLearn group some questions.

Gleki posted on this and seems to think that we do not know enough to 
discuss it, so this may have to be passed to the Board for resolution.

3) gleki wrote:
> What are the planned actions of the members on producing better textbooks and dictionaries?

I have seen no discussion of this topic.  Are any members interested in 
the topic (other than gleki and myself)?

4) guskant wrote:
> I posted a message on the topic "2014 Annual Meeting - Breaking
> isolation between communities" in December. I suggested in the message
> creating a periodical (annual or more frequent) to connect isolated
> communities of Lojban to each other. Articles from various communities
> of Lojban should be inserted in an issue. I suggest each article is
> bilingual of Lojban and a main Language of the community. The format
> should be at least html, pdf, epub and mobi. The website of
> publication should _not_ be on Google, because PRC blocks most sites
> of Google.
>
> We will need to make call for contribution in every possible community.
> La gleki can make contact with communities in Russia.
> I can do it with communities in PRC and those in Japan.
> A community in HongKong/Taiwan is very open to the rest of the world,
> and everyone has access to it.
> Possibly there are communities in Pakistan. Besides Ali, I have a
> Pakistani friend who learns Lojban.
> Moreover, I recently found someone speaks on Lojban in Arabic, and
> there might be going to be born an Arabic speakers' community in near
> future:
> https://youtu.be/kBr6U0U4XYQ

Again, there has been no discussion.  Is there interest among the 
membership?

If no one wants to talk about any of the New Business items, we should 
probably end this meeting.  I will give until the end of day Friday for 
someone to show signs of discussion on one of these or possibly some 
other topic.  If not, I will adjourn the meeting.

lojbab

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