From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Jul 21 12:53:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 19:53:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 91485 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 19:53:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 19:53:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 19:53:37 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (1.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.1]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6LJraY49372 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:53:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721154636.00b64460@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:57:13 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: how can i help lojban? what can $ do? In-Reply-To: <9jckvr+lvhb@eGroups.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721141942.00c5d100@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:25 PM 07/21/2001 +0000, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: >well i guess that's the way the world works. i just can't help see >money as such a primitive concept, though. that's why i asked if it >would even help. i think the best it could do would be to remove >individuals from their need to make money. Well, at this point, a certain chunk of unrestricted money would close off LLGs debts and cause us not to be worried about keeping the organization afloat for a long time to come (probably talking around $10K here). A somewhat larger amount would allow me to farm out the business-work to people who do that sort of thing professionally for a fee. (probably a few more thousands, but it has to be ongoing). If we could get up to the level of even $100K, we can run the organization on the interest alone, $200K would start to finance real research (these numbers might be lower with non-US researchers). I don't make money at Lojban and never expect to. But this also means that at some point I may have to go back to work, and my Lojban time will shrink even further. >and getting grants...working the system, i could never put up with that. I know something about doing so, but it is a much more intensive job than I have had time to do for many years. >anyways, lojban is one of the only things i ever thought to donate >money to (i don't even tip). so if you ever see a huge donation, it >might be me. i floated the $10-million dollar value out but even >that seems small. Not to me. Even $100K would change the way we do business, and I have trouble imagining what we would do with more than a million it seems so unlikely. (I'm sure I'll come up with something appropriate should you be so generous %^) And I'll definitely deposit the check promptly, once I recover from fainting %^) lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org