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== Minutes of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc. ==


''Also, if we had a katakana orthography (not like I expect that to be easy) we might could appeal to the anime crowd. Just a thought.'' -- anon, from [[jbocre: Why Tengwar?]]
The sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language
Group, Inc. was called to order on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:28:24 PST.
It was conducted on the llg-members mailing list.


''(Here a lamer from 24.17.25.93 showed off his vocabulary.)''
It should be noted that this meeting was a bit procedurally odd:
votes were taken very fast, and by acclamation mostly. This is
because we had a legal obligation to get some reports to the
Virginia government, and we were running very late.


That is an awfully interesting idea. Might even be possible. How would consonant clusters be done, though? (Hell, how would any C not followed by V be done? And what do you do with the 'n' consonant symbol? Give it to n or m?) --[[jbocre: Jay Kominek|Jay]]
==Roll Call==


''Awfully fancyful people around here ;-) : Don't like Katakana as much as I'm fond of [[jbocre: Hiragana|Hiragana]] (Firakana)!  - But speaking honestly, for what *rational* reason should a syllabic alphabet like this, tailored for a language with a very special phonemic system like Japanese, be adjusted for Lojban? - But yes, it would be very, very nice to have it. So I was playing around a bit with Fontographer and a Hiragana font to maybe get some idea... Yet, it's horrible a task:''
 
Roll call was waived, as all members were believed to have valid
e-mail addresses on the list. A list of members who actually
participated (commented or voted) is as follows:


''E.g. we needed to modify characters for lb {c}, {l}, {f} and {x} - {l} maybe by adding a nigori to "r", {f} by using the "h", unless we don't take that for {x}. We'd have to invent some more diacritical marks beside "nigori" and "maru" (at least one for kind of "schwa" to indicate the syllable as being "vowelless" (i.e. being a consonant).''
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/And+Rosta And Rosta]
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tsali Arnt Richard Johansen]
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Bob+LeChevalier Bob LeChevalier]
* Charles Hope
* Craig Daniel
* David Barton
* Gary Burgess
* Gregory Dyke
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Jay+Kominek Jay Kominek]
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/John+Cowan John Cowan]
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/xorxes Jorge Llambias]
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Matt+Arnold Matt Arnold] (made member during meeting)
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Nora+LeChevalier Nora LeChevalier]
* PaulFrancis O'Sullivan
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Pierre+Abbat Pierre Abbat]
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Robin+Lee+Powell Robin Lee Powell]
* Robin Turner
* [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/bancus Theodore Reed]
* Yann Le Du


''So, don't think it's impossible... (... for doing your Lojban poems in Hiragana calligraphy - let us fetch some ink, brush and paper...) -.aulun.''
==Reading of Minutes==
Deferred by providing a link for people to read at their leisure.


----------
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/LLG%202004%20Annual%20Meeting%20Minutes


You can use the Japanese people's double-kana tricks for writing fa, fi, fe, fo, for instance.
==Officer's Reports==


''How does this work?''
 
Accepted by acclamation.


Try fu plus a small vowel kana.
The reports from the President and Vice President were be waived, having
nothing to report.


And as for Lojban {x}, I think the Japanese try to imitate this sound by putting a small tsu in front of a kana such as ha. So {xa} would be (small tsu) (ha).
<pre>Treasurer's Report
------------------
 
This is an amended copy of my report to the board Tue, 4 Oct 2005.
 
Main account balance: $2,264.80
Main account balance according to QuickBooks: $2,109.51
 
Still don't know where the extra $150 came from; should be able to
figure that out next quarter now that I have the documents in
question.
 
PayPal account balances at $590.63
 
That means we have a total of:
 
$2,855.43
 
In addition, the Treasurer has not missed a single quarterly report
this year.  One quarterly tax filing that was late has been paid for
out-of-pocket ($10).
 
IF THERE IS NO OBJECTION within a week, i.e. by Tue Nov 22 22:00:00
UTC 2005, the treasurer's report will be taken as accepted by the
membership.
</pre>
 
 
==Committee Reports==
 
 
Accepted by acclamation.
 
<pre>BPFK Report
-----------
 
We have completed the following checkpoints, representing about a
third of the language:
 
    * BAI #1, Completed 16 Jun 2005
    * Magic Words #1, Completed 11 Feb 2005.
    * gadri #1, completed 25 Dec 2004 (Christmas present).
    * Letterals #1, completed 17 March 2004.
    * Aspect #1, completed 24 May 2004.
 
(see http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Checkpoints&bl )
 
We are currently mired in the UI checkpoint, mostly because of
near-total lack of activity on the part of the vast majority of the
commissioners.  We really, really need more active BPFK people, but
those people also need to be pretty skilled Lojbanists.  Ideas very
much welcomed.
 
IF THERE IS NO OBJECTION within a week, i.e. by Tue Nov 22 22:00:00
UTC 2005, the BPFK committee report will be taken as accepted by the
membership.
</pre>
 
 
==Election of New Members==
 
 
The following new members were elected:
 
* Stephen Weeks
* Matt Arnold
 
==Removal of Old Members==
 
 
The following members were removed.
 
* Jordan DeLong
* Alexandra Miles-Lasseter
* Adam Raizen
* David Twery
 
==Election of the Board==
 
* Robin Lee Powell
* Bob LeChevalier
* Matt Arnold
* Jay Kominek
* Arnt Richard Johansen
 
==Old Business==
 
 
None.
 
==New Business==
 
 
The secretary called for discussion of how to revitalize the BPFK,
and/or new people to add to it. Nothing came of it.
 
Robin Lee Powell was given a vote of thanks.
 
* Previous meeting: [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/LLG+2004+Annual+Meeting+Minutes 2004 annual meeting]
* Following meeting: [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/LLG+2006+Annual+Meeting+Minutes 2006 annual meeting]

Latest revision as of 10:34, 21 January 2015

Minutes of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc.

The sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc. was called to order on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:28:24 PST. It was conducted on the llg-members mailing list.

It should be noted that this meeting was a bit procedurally odd: votes were taken very fast, and by acclamation mostly. This is because we had a legal obligation to get some reports to the Virginia government, and we were running very late.

Roll Call

Roll call was waived, as all members were believed to have valid e-mail addresses on the list. A list of members who actually participated (commented or voted) is as follows:

Reading of Minutes

Deferred by providing a link for people to read at their leisure.

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/LLG%202004%20Annual%20Meeting%20Minutes

Officer's Reports

Accepted by acclamation.

The reports from the President and Vice President were be waived, having nothing to report.

Treasurer's Report
------------------

This is an amended copy of my report to the board Tue, 4 Oct 2005.

Main account balance: $2,264.80
Main account balance according to QuickBooks: $2,109.51

Still don't know where the extra $150 came from; should be able to
figure that out next quarter now that I have the documents in
question.

PayPal account balances at $590.63

That means we have a total of:

$2,855.43

In addition, the Treasurer has not missed a single quarterly report
this year.  One quarterly tax filing that was late has been paid for
out-of-pocket ($10).

IF THERE IS NO OBJECTION within a week, i.e. by Tue Nov 22 22:00:00
UTC 2005, the treasurer's report will be taken as accepted by the
membership.


Committee Reports

Accepted by acclamation.

BPFK Report
-----------

We have completed the following checkpoints, representing about a
third of the language:

     * BAI #1, Completed 16 Jun 2005
     * Magic Words #1, Completed 11 Feb 2005.
     * gadri #1, completed 25 Dec 2004 (Christmas present).
     * Letterals #1, completed 17 March 2004.
     * Aspect #1, completed 24 May 2004.

(see http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Checkpoints&bl )

We are currently mired in the UI checkpoint, mostly because of
near-total lack of activity on the part of the vast majority of the
commissioners.  We really, really need more active BPFK people, but
those people also need to be pretty skilled Lojbanists.  Ideas very
much welcomed.

IF THERE IS NO OBJECTION within a week, i.e. by Tue Nov 22 22:00:00
UTC 2005, the BPFK committee report will be taken as accepted by the
membership.


Election of New Members

The following new members were elected:

  • Stephen Weeks
  • Matt Arnold

Removal of Old Members

The following members were removed.

  • Jordan DeLong
  • Alexandra Miles-Lasseter
  • Adam Raizen
  • David Twery

Election of the Board

  • Robin Lee Powell
  • Bob LeChevalier
  • Matt Arnold
  • Jay Kominek
  • Arnt Richard Johansen

Old Business

None.

New Business

The secretary called for discussion of how to revitalize the BPFK, and/or new people to add to it. Nothing came of it.

Robin Lee Powell was given a vote of thanks.