On Aug 9, 2016 12:10 PM, "Timothy Lawrence" <timothy.lawrence@connect.qut.edu.au> wrote:
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> Yeah it's probably a bad idea for contributions of small texts.
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> 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 :)
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> 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.
That's the other way around. Rather than giving and expecting work, it's seeing work and giving. THAT is a good idea.
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> Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2016 7:16 PM
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> To: mriste
> Subject: Re: [lojban] taking action
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> No offense, but that's a horrible idea. Let me tell you why:
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> • 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.
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> • there'd be a need for a lot of money, otherwise it wouldn't gain interest.
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> • once the money is gone, the workers are gone.
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> 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.
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> — mi'e la uakci mu'o
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> On Aug 9, 2016 8:25 AM, "Timothy Lawrence" <timothy.lawrence@connect.qut.edu.au> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> If anyone knows a system that is good for facilitating something like this, let me know.
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> ________________________________
>> 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
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>> Hi there.
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>> 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.
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>> One last question: why does nobody develop the Interactive Story? Please add something to it.
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>> — mi'e la uakci mu'o
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