[lojban] Re: LogFest 2000?

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>

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.
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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!)


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