alternative Web pages

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

Let me make clear that I encourage any and all people who want to develop
their own Lojban pages as alternatives to Veijo's pages.  We are in no
sense either proprietary about eityher the language or the methodologies of
promoting it.

I think I may have come across as being a bit too negative in repsonse to
recent posters.  I DO want to see the language promoted.  But I cannot
do more than I am already doing myself, and too often, people's suggestions
seem like a lot more work for me, without necessarily being worth it (to
me, and in terms of my priorities in leading the effort as set by the
LogFest-attending membership).

Progress in recent years has seemed very slow, partly because I have had less
time to give the project (and more time seems to be sent merely in keeping
up with my email), and partly because the main projects we have been working on
are slow movers that require hundreds or thousands of person-hours in order
to get completed.  It is thus hard to report progress, when we don't see much
progress ourselves.

Also, to clarify one thing I wrote last time: my obligation to paid
subscribers.  LLG was founded before we had Internet access, and the
community that started LLG is not, to my knowledge, primarily oriented towards
computers and the Internet.  For years the organization was sustained by
our printed newsletter le lojbo karni and our journal Ju'i Lobypli.  We had
to suspend publication in 1993-4 of both of these until I got some of the book
publishing done.  Since then, we have gotten a book out, and people on Lojban
List have been kept informed.  But people without Internet access have not
yet even been told that the book has been puiblished, much less had a chance
to buy it and become active in the community.  These people, especially
the 120-odd prepaid JL subscribers, are owed an enormous debt by the
LOjban community as a whole, both for their financial support (we owe them
somewhere between $3000 and $6000 in subscription and account balances, which
money went to finance the book publication) and their emotional support,
without whioch there would be no Lojban.  At some time in the near future, I
need to return my attention to these people, who have been ignored for too
long.  People on the Internet will have to be content with what I have
been providing, and my focus will remain primarily on supporting those
actively interested enough to be on Lojban Lis, since answerring email is
one thing I can do without taking on additional work.

Thus when I talk about focussing on paid subscribers, I am NOT denigrating
the contribution of people who have not paid us money (though a shortage
of money remains our worst problem, and my biggest distraction from
productive work), but on my unmet obligations to those who have paid money
and NOT gotten what theyt have paid for -neither journals that they have
subscrinbed to nor the language that they have paid the development costs of.

lojbab
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lojbab                                                lojbab@access.digex.net
Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
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