Subject: Re: [lojban] LLG = who? (was: RE: Re: Why we should cancel the vote or all vote NO (was RE: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy

From: "Logical Language Group, Inc." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 02:53:57 -0500

At 03:28 AM 12/3/02 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
>Robin:
> > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:53:51PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> > > The seeking of a mandate was, IMHO, a sign of respect to the greater
> > > community. Nothing in the LLG Bylaws requires us to seek a mandate
> >
> > The above bears repeating
> >
> > We're talking about an *LLG* policy here. Not an official statement of
> > the whole lojban community or something. As such, the most that the
> > bylaws, or even basic politeness IMO, could *possibly* require is that
> > the entire membership ratify it
>
>Lojbab has said that the LLG is the entire community.

It is. When we ask people to be members, we ask them to voluntarily serve 
as representatives of that indefinite larger community, not merely as 
themselves, because someone has to make policy in an official manner.

lojbab

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