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A social membership organization whose mission is to provide venues and contexts for interacting in Lojban.
ILES would not control what the Lojban language _is_. That is an application of language design, math, logic, and the sciences. ILES would solely be in charge of creating the purposes toward which languages are put.
To work effectively as a legally incorporated entity, The Logical Language Group, Inc. can only fit about a couple of dozen LLG Members and an even smaller Board of Directors. The Bylaws restrict membership to those with certain types of expertise. It is in charge of the language definition and development.
But according to the Bylaws of The Logical Language Group, Inc., it is also tasked with social objectives that are outside the scope of a group so small to do alone. Social functions need to be delegated to a body large enough to be democratic for the community, and large enough to stay active when half its members are unavailable for months at a time.
A social function is anything that depends on agreeing to show up at a particular place at a particular time. It would be enhanced by a voting process similar to that of meetup.com.
- Organizing and attending Logfest.
- Scheduling phone chats.
- Scheduling IRC meetups.
- Creating, administering, and playing the Lojban MOO and roleplaying micronation, xartum.
- Chartering branch clubs such as the one in Detroit, and the potential one in California.
- Coordinating collaborators on original Lojban literarature, music, art and film.
Membership is open to anyone who is interested in Lojban, at any skill level. Voting rights in the organization are conferred for one year by sending $5 to the Logical Language group with a request for membership.
Voting on times and locations for online and offline meetups will take place on the Lojban e-mail lists and wiki.