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Conlangery 141: The Eighth Language Creation Conference

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How to Organize a Community Building Event

"I love that we have this community building event. But some of us are quite isolated," she says. "As soon as the closest conlang to you is more than a couple hours away, it's very difficult to organize" The next conference will be in two years and they're going to change how they pick the location.

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Speaker 2
That's great. That's great. It should happen more often. But some of us are quite isolated. I'm thinking of trying to organize something else to them, especially with now that I've moved closer to where Janssen, from Sienbier, who lives. It's something that's feasible now. It wasn't feasible when I was still living where I was living last year. And it would have taken me two hours to just meet with him. We meet up with him. Now we are something like a quarter of our work from each other. So that should be possible. And there are all the conlangers around. I know I've made a few at the LCC. That's why I didn't know where he is. So yeah, it's not always easy. As soon as the closest conlang to you is more than a couple hours away, it's very difficult to organize. All right. Well,
Speaker 1
it sounds like it was a great experience being there. I love that we have this community building event. And I hope to go. Next one's going to be in two years. I'm hoping that I can get there. What 2021. Right. So next one. Yeah. So, yeah. We'll we'll see where it is and what I can arrange. But we're going to change how we pick the location. We're going to we're going to open it up more to LCS member input rather than just having the board pick a proposal that we think is best. We're going to open it up to the membership to really inform our decision of where it should be next time and and hopefully make it a little more transparent process with more community involvement. That sounds great because, yeah, I mean, it's kind of not like I don't always know because because the thing is there's, I can see like that being a double edged sword because on one hand, you want the community to input have input on that kind of thing and have sort of on that. The other side of it is that I know that in the past, the LCS board has considered stuff like, you know, we've weather. Okay. Do we we've had one in Europe. Do we want one in the United States or vice versa. That kind of stuff to try to spread it around to different locations. So, whereas the community might sort of just like concentrate it like everybody wants it to be where they are so wherever the most people are, it ends up being. So we haven't formalized exactly how we're going to do it. It'll, it'll still be a way for us to take the pulse of the community and find out what the community wants, but we'll still try to consider things like that. And we will not hold the conference in a location that has laws that penalize members or, or, you know, the ideals of the LCS so we can't go to a country that persecutes homosexuals or transgendered persons. So that's right. Yeah, we're still going to make sure it is a safe. This community, you absolutely can't have that happen. So,
Speaker 2
yeah.

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