Re: A proposal to bring together the conlang communities
| From: | Sai Emrys <sai@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2008, 0:31 |
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On Jan 26, 2008 4:07 PM, Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> wrote:
> Paper mail definitely feels more "real" to me these days, and it's something
> I can browse while still paying attention to the toddler, a present that
> arrives in the mail to brighten a rather boring stay-at-home day, something
> pretty and permanent to pore over. I can get that in lacemaking magazines
> (one of the advantages to a community with a very much older average age
> than my own), and occasionally in a Tolkien-related publication (must go
> order more), but not, of late, in general conlanging.
Though I'm relatively young and raised on electronic forms of
communication and publishing, I fully agree.
> Actually, I was hoping this might be a direction the LCS would eventually
> go in.
It is. (David Durand is the guy to contact for that; specific plans
are still in development.)
> (I joined and never got so much as an email confirmation. I'm
> happy to support what is at present an organization for holding LCC's, but
> I really hope there will be member benefits at some point!)
I'm sorry about that; 'twas certainly not intentional. I'm not sure
how you managed to join (since the code for that was only publicly
visible for about a day on an unlinked page, while I was doing some
test edits)... we simply haven't finished hashing out benefits yet,
and are still finishing our tax app so that we can have full nonprofit
status and thus be able to promise certain member benefits that we
legally can't do yet.
There are several member benefits we'd like to offer - and probably
could - but we're trying to err on the side of reliability over
breadth for now, and roll out things gradually so that we can do 'em
well.
I thought I had written you back shortly after you signed up saying
essentially the same thing as here, but evidently not. My apologies
for that; it's of course not our intent to alienate members, and I
hope we'll do better in the future.
- Sai
(This time speaking on behalf of the LCS)
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