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Re: [lojban] taking action
On 8/12/2016 4:02 PM, Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
Probably because nobody has even heard of it. This needs to change.
Agreed; though it's hard not to look into a two-month thread.
There are a lot of people who don't try to keep up with Lojban List
anymore, including me. (Much of the discussion is in Lojban, and I
haven't the time or fluency to even try. And of the stuff that is in
English, it is pretty difficult to keep track of what are ideas and what
stuff is actually being worked on.
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).
Why is he no longer in?
He has chosen to "drop out" at least for a while, so that he can work on
other interests. (Beyond that, you will have to ask him directly.)
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.
Hmm, the success of such funding depends on how it's organized. As I
mentioned earlier, it can make volunteers decline in number, in the
worst scenario.
We've been thinking in terms of annual awards, chosen kinda like Nobel
Prizes. So far as I know, such prizes are tangential to people actually
deciding to get involved in such activities.
LLG can also use its budget to pay for actual expenses of projects, but
that would not be payment for services (we don't have anywhere near the
money to pay even one person at a salary level).
Yeah, it's a big problem. The concepts I mailed about and proposed over
a span of only a few months can't be counted on one's hands. On the
other hand, the number of those that were implemented can, even on one hand.
And to be honest, I don't know a single one of those, and in fact cannot
recall reading any postings of yours before today.
But let's see if that can change. Not so much me keeping up (because I
can't anymore), but LLG in the form of my two outreach people. Please
encourage them when they post. We're rather new at this type of thing,
and need to find out what will work.
lojbab
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