BPFK Membership Query

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la .eris.

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Feb 24, 2019, 1:52:39 AM2/24/19
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I'm interested in the development and design of Lojban. I am curious what the required qualifications (or procedure, or the like) are for membership on the BPFK. I highly doubt that I'm currently qualified, but I'd like to know what I can do to move toward the goal of becoming a member eventually. Thanks in advance!

mi'e .eris.

Ilmen

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Feb 24, 2019, 6:15:51 PM2/24/19
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Hello,

If I'm not mistaken, prospective new members have to be voted upon by
the membership and a majority of positive votes is needed. Furthermore,
the prospective members should have a sufficient command on the language
to read and write in it, as the discussions in the BPFK mailing list are
conducted only in Lojban.

IIRC the latest BPFK membership policies were discussed in that thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bpfk-list/SXxIpMLgL5s/M0yMTFEMSvoJ

—Ilmen.

Bob LeChevalier

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Feb 24, 2019, 6:24:10 PM2/24/19
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At present, the LLG membership is debating whether to continue the
existence of BPFK, because participation has been too low in the opinion
of the BPFK chairman (jatna), who is known by the handle selpa'i.
Normally you would contact him at his email to join.

To become a voting member, the only real requirement is to sign up and
eventually show up at the annual meeting. You can do this *now* (and
participate in the meeting discussion, even if your vote cannot count
until you are a member), because the online meeting that started last
year is still continuing (we're trying to fix that, but health problems
have interfered).

The website is:

https://framateam.org/signup_user_complete/?id=17b4ir6u6by6px693dm8kmy7yw

The site may come up in French, unless someone figured how to change the
default.

You change the language (if I remember correctly) by clicking on the 3
bar "Main menu" icon at the up left, then clicking on the first option
which is "Account settings" and then "Display" which has an eye icon
next to it, and the last item is the language, which you can edit to
make it "English". It may still say Francais, but everything should now
be English.

Several public channels can then be joined. The Members Meeting is
called "LLG Members Meeting". It is open to all interested members of
the Lojban community.

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - VP and Founder
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Robert LeChevalier

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Feb 24, 2019, 7:26:19 PM2/24/19
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On 2/24/2019 6:24 PM, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> On 2/24/2019 1:52 AM, la .eris. wrote:
>> I'm interested in the development and design of Lojban. I am curious
>> what the required qualifications (or procedure, or the like) are for
>> membership on the BPFK. I highly doubt that I'm currently qualified,
>> but I'd like to know what I can do to move toward the goal of becoming
>> a member eventually. Thanks in advance!
>>
>> mi'e .eris.
>
> At present, the LLG membership is debating whether to continue the
> existence of BPFK, because participation has been too low in the opinion
> of the BPFK chairman (jatna), who is known by the handle selpa'i.
> Normally you would contact him at his email to join.
>
> To become a voting member, the only real requirement is to sign up and
> eventually show up at the annual meeting.  You can do this *now* (and
> participate in the meeting discussion, even if your vote cannot count
> until you are a member), because the online meeting that started last
> year is still continuing (we're trying to fix that, but health problems
> have interfered).

To clarify, that last paragraph is about how to become a voting member
of LLG. I realized on rereading, that you might have been asking how to
become a voting member of byfy.

I am not sure that there is any distinction among byfy members as to who
can vote, but perhaps ilmen's link would clarify.

lojbab

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