From thinkit8@lycos.com Fri Jul 20 06:44:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 20 Jul 2001 13:44:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 24565 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 13:44:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Jul 2001 13:44:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n17.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.1.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 13:44:45 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.68] by mq.egroups.com with NNFMP; 20 Jul 2001 13:44:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:44:43 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: how can i help lojban? what can $ do? Message-ID: <9j9ckb+cogk@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 776 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com i try to start discussions in jbosnu, so we can start using the language. so far that's gone pretty well. i don't want to try to change the language myself, or i'll end up wanting to write my own! i tried giving money to lojbab, but apparently he didn't even cash the checks in time. i think the lojban cause is supremely important, so where should i send money to help it along to? i'm wondering if a lot of money thrown on the problem would make things worse or better? i suppose we could get people on things full time to develop and evangelize. what could, for example, a ten million dollar boost do to the project? i know money tends to poison creativity (look at m$ versus linux), but this just seems to important not to devote whatever you can to it.