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Re: [lojban] one poem a week
On 8/7/2016 5:00 PM, Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
Hi there.
I'm not going to elaborate on the idea: I propose a weekly magazine (or
whatever) of Lojbanists' poems (on some topic).
Once a week, I would announce a topic, to which everyone (who can, and I
think everyone can if they want; beginners would also be welcome) would
write a poem. It could be short, long — you'd decide.
I think that writing seventeen syllables (if you'd write haiku all the
time) a week is a thing that takes one minute, so I encourage everyone
to try once I have heard suggestions here.
Please share your thoughts with me,
LLG, the Lojban community organization, is attempting to get itself
reactivated. Alas, for several years it was dependent on one person,
Robin Powell, who ran the website but also ran byfy and was doing the
revision for CLL (the red book).
Volunteerism dried up, and we didn't have anyone to act on suggestions
like the above. I myself have been in declining health and had much
less time for Lojban in recent years.
We now have a new Board and officers. I am delegating community
outreach to two of them (Curtis Franks and Karen Stein). I am hoping
that they will post to this and other threads shortly (as well as to
IRC). Please make your complaints about lack of organization to them,
as well as your suggestions for new initiatives that the community can
undertake. They will have some capacity to act on their own, and will
be reporting to the LLG Board of Directors, so that ideas start turning
into action.
At the very least we should be able to coordinate setting aside a
prominent place on the website where new ideas can be posted, and maybe
get some people to assume leadership in motivating others to become
active and to stay involved.
There also has been discussion of a small quasi-competitive prize fund
that would be a reward for the most significant contributions to the
community. There would be periodic fixed-amount prizes in several
categories, funded from the LLG budget (as well as any donations
specifically for that purpose). The details have to be discussed, and
I will urge the two outreachers to lead discussion on that topic.
I urge people to offer their ideas, and more importantly their
commitment to act in support of ideas that are implemented. 99% of the
ideas proposed in the last several years have died simply because the
person attempting to lead the effort got zero volunteer response to help
in implementing them.
lojbab
Bob LeChevalier
President, LLG
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