On 12 Oct 2015 15:20, "selpa'i" <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 12:38:09 PM UTC+2, And Rosta wrote:
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>> The main duties of LLG members are, unofficially:
>> 1. Attending meetings (= email discussion) and paying attention.
>> 2. Electing the Board of Directors.
>> 3. Participating in a spirit of friendship to Lojban.
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>> There is no stigma at all to proposing oneself for membership. LLG membership is a form of not very onerous service to the community.
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>> Volunteers for candidacy for election to the Board are also very welcome, if the candidacy is coupled with a sincere and realizable intention to make a useful contribution to the work of the LLG, and to fairly consistently participate in the deliberations of the Board. We're also going to need a new Vice-president, since the current one, by his own admission, is not really up to scratch. Board membership, and holding one of the named offices, is a somewhat more onerous form of service to the community, and there has been a shortage of volunteers. The consequent detriment to the community is not so much in vital tasks not getting done, for all the vital stuff is done, heroically, by Robin, but rather in the forgone opportunity to do additional useful stuff.
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> What do you consider useful stuff that the Board could do,
I'm too marginal to community activity to be able to comment usefully. The vital stuff (keeping Lojban.org running and getting CLL 1 to PoD), Robin is doing, fortunately. I'd had vague ideas about things like coordinating the updated CLL and having a panoptic view of community activity, sort of like Lojbab 20 years ago and Robin ten, but nothing I want to argue for. What would you consider useful? If you think there's nothing useful the Board can do, that would change my thinking about it; it would be quite reassuring to learn that the general ineffectuality of the Board is due it having no potential useful function, rather than to inadequacies of any officer.
> and how does it compare to the (in my opinion) very valuable work of teachers, translators, artists, learners, and people involved in defining the language (e.g. BPFK)?
I think if there's anything that involves concerted coordinated collective effort then it's often useful to have designated leaders, and board elections offer a convenient opportunity to confer community approbation on volunteer candidate leaders.
But anyway, your answers to your questions are much more important than mine. You're central to the community and have a much better sense of what it does and doesn't need, and I'll be guided by your better judgement.
I'm here answering with my ill-fitting vice-presidential hat on. With it off, I'd say, in answer to your question, that BPFK is of paramount importance, and BPFK leadership the key role, to get it working through the ton of stuff it needs to work through.
--And.