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Re: [lojban] taking action
On 8/7/2016 5:00 PM, Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
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.
Probably because nobody has even heard of it. This needs to change.
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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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