25.801, It is the 23rd year...

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Subject: 25.801, It is the 23rd year...

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:25:47
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: It is the 23rd year...

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Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

This is the 23rd year that I have written to kick off the LINGUIST List Fund
Drive. This year I'm not running the Fund Drive--I'm retired! (Oh frabjous
day!) However, I know--better than almost anyone--how much LINGUIST needs your
support and what generous support LINGUIST List readers always provide. So I
want to lend my voice to that of the new Director, Damir Cavar, as he makes
his very first request for donations to keep LINGUIST List running.

This year, your donations are more critical than ever. Because of the
transition in leadership, there was no fund drive last year; and the coffers
are nearly empty. Indeed, the students who are running this year's fund drive
will be working many unpaid hours--as Damir and his wife Malgorzata have done
all year. Unless we have a successful Fund Drive, LL will have no money next
year to pay the students who not only keep LINGUIST List running, but who
constitute a constant stream of talented young people entering the discipline.
Over its 22 years of existence, LINGUIST List has supported 150 Linguistics
students through their M.A.'s. And fully one-half of these have gone on to
pursue Ph.D.s at other universities.

Damir fought hard, and successfully, to maintain LINGUIST services during a
very challenging transition period. Because of his dedication and hard work,
LINGUIST is now better than ever, in both staffing and technology. He has
assembled an excellent student crew composed of loyal ‘old hands,’ as well as
promising new GAs, who have come to Ypsilanti, Michigan from places as far
removed as Germany, Croatia, Nigeria, and Siberia. As many of you know, 100%
of the donations you make to LL are expended on student stipends. And these
students richly deserve your support.

Damir has exciting plans for LL, including a new LL interface, one that works
on tablets and phones, and he has been tirelessly reconfiguring the LL backend
to use open source software and hardware. The latter improvement is long
overdue. As many of you know, the LL interface, which is nearly 20 years old,
was dependent on Cold Fusion and Oracle; and neither Anthony nor I had the
expertise, the time, or the sheer determination to redesign the over 300,000
pages on the website. Damir has two of the three; so—despite having less time
than we did this year—he has almost finished the redesign. He has also been
working on site localization (web display in the local language) and on
securing a more accurate count of LL subscribers and pages viewed. (It turns
out that European users outnumber US users; and the EMELD School of Best
Practices (http://emeld.org) is still frequently accessed.) Many of these
innovations were demo'd at LSA, and some will  be made available to general
users during the weeks of the Fund Drive.

I am writing now simply to urge you to give Damir and the LINGUIST List crew
the same  generous support that Anthony and I always relied on from you—the
support that has kept LINGUIST List thriving during these last (gasp!) 22
years. Your support is key to LL’s survival at this critical juncture.

Sincerely,

-Helen

Helen Aristar-Dry
LINGUIST Moderator (retired)

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