Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:32:59 -0700
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: Re: [Llg-members] Annual Meeting - 2011
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On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:14:35PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> I hereby call to order the 2011 annual meeting of the Logical
> Language Group, Inc.

As a general comment, I wish to point out that I've made a habit of
*discouraging* people from joining the LLG.

The LLG is a *business* organization.  It is the money-collecting
and money-spending arm of the Lojban community.  It is *not* the
language management arm of the Lojban community (that's a mixture of
the BPFK, me, and public opinion, and is all very fuzzy).  It
*certainly* is not the "getting things done" arm of the Lojban
community; historically, having a project recognized by the LLG
before it was actually completed has been an almost perfect
assurance that that project would never get completed.

As far as I'm concerned, the only function of the LLG membership
should be to elect the board and provide oversight for the board's
decisions, and as a fallback voting body should the board want to do
something obviously outside of normal monetary behaviour.

Everything else is better handled in other venues.

As such, the membership should be small and focused on those ends.

Furthermore, I don't much care what language we have the meetings
in; money is money.

Those of you who have been around for a while may notice that this
is a huge reversal of things I've said in the past.  The stance I've
just presented exactly matches what Bob used to say back in the day,
when he was doing all the work.  I've also been the one doing all
the work for the past several years.  There *is* a connection there.
:)

-Robin

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