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Minutes of the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc.

The twelfth Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc. was called to order on August 6, 2000 at 11:58 AM EDT.

Shawn Lasseter was appointed Sergeant-at-Arms to gather/inform members of beginning of meeting.

Non-members in attendance at the annual meeting were:

Roll call was taken of the members.

Members attending (14) were:

Members "present" (5) by proxy:

Members not in attendance (3) were:

No proper notice of meeting by Secretary/Treasurer was given (per Article 3, Section 4 of the Bylaws)., therefore no bylaw amendments may be made.

Reading of the Minutes:

Report of officers: Secretary/Treasurer, by President:

Organization delinquent 2 quarters in state sales tax ($30 penalty)

Book orders caught up

Other orders not done

Estimated 5-6 thousand in liability for balances.

Expenses:

Book Sales: 322

Report of officers - President:

Settled with printer: Asked $4400, settled with offer of $2400.

There was a suggestion that we get the bad book back so we can insert a print of the good page and use it to send to those of limited funds who wanted the book.

Commendation to Yvgeny Sklyanin for building a net community in Russia, including translating stuff into Russian and setting up a Russian language web site. (Here it was also noted that Xod had set up a lojban web ring and is encouraging us to get the lojban web page set up).

Production of Dictionary: not advanced.

Note that World Con is in Philadelphia next year.

Project on new words (lujvo): We would like to find a way to get people to create/check even just the English keywords for the words on the list of new words (5000-10000).

Report of Committees:

Level 0 package committee (1998,99: John Cowan, chairman; David Twery; Tommy Whitlock; Bob LeChevalier):
Nothing done.
Internet site committee (1999: David Twery, Chairman; Shawn Lasseter; Nick Nicholas):
Nothing done.
Finance (aka Poverty) Committee:
On-line ordering (1997: Mark Shoulson, chairman):
no change reported.
WorldCon committee (1998: Keith Lynch, chairman; David Bowen; Bob LeChevalier):
nothing to report.
Meeting notice (1994: Bob LeChevalier and John Cowan):
no report.
Grant proposal: (1996: Dave Barton, chairman; Dave Twery; and Bob LeChevalier):
no report.
Streamlining meeting procedures (1999: John Cowan, chairman):
no report.

Consideration of new members or removal of old members:

Discussion: concern about too much emphasis given to the local people who can come to Logfest, and not enough consideration of foreign contributors. Led to discussion of what it means to be a member and how it would affect ability to do bylaw amendments and other business at the annual meeting.

Election of Board of Directors:

Current Board includes: David Barton, John Clifford, John Cowan, Bob LeChevalier, Nora LeChevalier, Alex Miles-Lasseter, David Twery. Maximum of 7 allowed.

Discussion of what it is to be on the Board of Directors.

Old/Unfinished Business:

Marketing and Promotion: Put off plan for future year [except for World Con], though Ethan had volunteered to be put in charge of contact form for Web.

New Business:

(Recessed until 1:15)

Discussion of James Cook Brown's death and relationship with The Loglan Institute (TLI)

Discussion: This may be seen as insulting. Discussion of importance of rapprochement, including reading from proxy comments.

Ethan presented a proposal: an offer of real-time on-line credit-card processing and on-demand publishing (printed and sent out) as a donation.

Much discussion: mechanics, check processing, etc.

Initially to be fulfillment of orders for the book (the Complete Grammar), so LLG wouldn't need credit card processing. Trail for 1 month, then talk to Board.

Possibly also web hosting: $15/year to maintain name.

(Note: at this point, Mark Shoulson leaves, proxy to Nick)

Talk of future ideas: Live, interactive conferencing for meetings; farming out dictionary and work-proposal via web-form.

Hartmut Pilch asked again about his proposal for use in patents:

(Note: at this point, Tommy Whitlock leaves, proxy to John Cowan)

Discussion of priority of resumption of Ju'i Lobypli and Lojbo Karni (JL and LK)

Policy on bug in grammar (formal grammar disagrees with write-up):

The twelfth Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc. was adjourned at approximately 2:50 PM EDT.

I certify that the above motions were presented to all members present for discussion and approval, and that all motions were approved as noted. I further certify that these minutes are an accurate representation of the twelfth Annual Meeting of the Members of The Logical Language Group, Inc.

Nora LeChevalier

Secretary/Treasurer

Last modified: Mon Jun 27 23:13:30 PDT 2005

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