Re: [lojban] taking action

Yeah it's probably a bad idea for contributions of small texts.

To be honest I was more interested in trialling it so it could be used for the bigger Lojban projects as some people should be rewarded for spending a lot of their time on great projects :)

I certainly can't give anyone a salary but I just wanted to give a thank-you, to make contributors feel valuable. Like a chocolate or such, but they are harder to send. It was just an idea.

From: lojban@googlegroups.com <lojban@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Bruno Panasiewicz <ciuak.prog@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2016 7:16 PM
To: mriste
Subject: Re: [lojban] taking action

No offense, but that's a horrible idea. Let me tell you why:

â€¢ there's no contract or anything, so those who do less while seeming to do a lot will get the same amount as those who really work hard.

â€¢ there'd be a need for a lot of money, otherwise it wouldn't gain interest.

â€¢ once the money is gone, the workers are gone.

I think that volunteering is the best choice at this point. I don't want Lojbanistan to be a country of money, but of a great community and a great language.

â€” mi'e la uakci mu'o

On Aug 9, 2016 8:25 AM, "Timothy Lawrence" <timothy.lawrence@connect.qut.edu.au> wrote:

I would be more than happy to offer small monetary rewards for community involvement, such as contributing translations, flashcards, stories, poems or diary entries - including from learners. One idea is that a bounty could be given to a random contributor over a week or so. The condition would be that all work submitted would be with the CC0 content licence or similar.

If anyone knows a system that is good for facilitating something like this, let me know.

I have found https://www.bountysource.com/ but it looks like it needs GitHub or similar (at the moment) which might be a barrier to many possible contributors. Maybe we could make a hub for all the community projects using a supported platform?

I have also found https://www.patreon.com/ but it seems more for regular individual creators, rather than once-off "competitions". That said, I would be interested in supporting some regular contributors in this way too.

I haven't used any of these before but it was just an idea. I am not yet advanced enough in Lojban to easily contribute directly.

From: lojban@googlegroups.com <lojban@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Bruno Panasiewicz <ciuak.prog@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, 8 August 2016 7:00 AM
To: mriste
Subject: [lojban] taking action

Hi there.

I'm recently worried too much about that not much is currently happening. I imagine a perfect Lojbanic community as a place where people do lots of translations and projects and such. What I see is the opposite: a place where everyone is stingy about helping, talking, writing, and complains about it.
Up to this point, this email really IS a complaint; now I want to propose something that would solve the problem. I think there should be a place for people to volunteer to other projects. Everyone that needs help or wants to start a community project would be welcome.
I'm utterly amazed about the Crash Course: it's a one man project, and I think it's worth recognition and work from others. Most projects could be completed within a few days or weeks if every Lojbanist wrote one line of Lojban/English every day.
I'd like to work on some way to make the community more active, and not just a random arrangement of people with their own lives.

One last question: why does nobody develop the Interactive Story? Please add something to it.

â€” mi'e la uakci mu'o

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