LINGUIST List 25.2050
Thu
May 08 2014
All: The LINGUIST List
Relocation and Final Fund-Drive Call
Editor for this issue:
Damir Cavar <damirlinguistlist.org>
Date: 08-May-2014
From: Damir Cavar
<damir
linguistlist.org>
Subject: The LINGUIST List
Relocation and Final Fund-Drive Call
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Dear LINGUIST List subscribers and
supporters,
as some of you might have heard, The LINGUIST
List is moving this summer. It is not moving
just to a new building or office space. It is
moving to a new state and a new institution. We
are all very sad to leave EMU and Michigan.
LINGUIST had a very good and successful time at
EMU. For those of you who know LINGUIST from
these EMU years, or are curious about what it
looked like, we will publish a special Blog
issue on that this week, and announce it on
various social media sites. We are grateful for
all the support and help that LINGUIST got from
the local colleagues, the English Department,
the administration and various other
institutions at EMU. We are all wiping the
tears from at least one eye. Gone is the view
to the Huron river, the deer passing by our
office windows, the woodchuck in the grass, and
all the other advantages of an office so close
to nature. Gone? Maybe not... Wait! Where is
LINGUIST going?
I am happy to announce that LINGUIST has found
a new place. The LINGUIST List is going
Hoosier! Yes, that is right. (For a short time
we might want to consider adding a specific
bird to our logo and website... :-) )
But, note that we are about to close the
fund-drive for this year. For the last time
this year - I promise - I ask you to consider
supporting The LINGUIST List with a donation.
This is probably your last opportunity this
year to change the outcome of the Grad School,
Subfield or Country Challenge 2014 and get one
of the cool LINGUIST premiums. Please have a
look at the 2014 Fund -Drive page:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/
You will of course have the opportunity to
donate to LINGUIST List outside of the
Fund-Drive activities by just going to the
donation page:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/
Some of you might be wondering what is
happening with the funds, and what LINGUIST
List uses them for.
Here is a general explanation of the usage:
The donations are used to pay our student
editors, and only them. They are NOT used to
pay anybody else, not the programmer, not the
moderator(s) or managers and faculty
volunteers.
The student editors are currently Anna White,
Bryn Hauk, Danuta Allen, Mateja Schuck, Sara
Couture, Sarah Fox, Uliana Kazagasheva, Xiyan
Wang, Alex Isotalo, Andrew Lamont.
During the summer, they do not receive any
income from their GA-ships or other sources. We
need to sponsor them with an hourly payment for
their editing job. During the semester we have
to cover the GA-ship for the ones who are not
supported from the department, university or
otherwise. And, I hope that you agree with me,
we have a group of extremely talented and
professional student editors. We are absolutely
happy to have them with us, and LINGUIST can be
happy to have such a talented and motivated
editing team.
But, LINGUIST will need help and support right
now, more than ever.
As I mentioned above, LINGUIST is going
Hoosier, or to be more precise, we are moving
to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
When we say “we”, this means, some of the
student editors will join us, as well as Lwin
Moe, a former linguist from IU, and our current
programmer for some of the projects and the new
website developer; and Malgosia and me are on
the move too. This move is very complicated, it
requires a lot of work and effort. We are glad
that some of our editors are willing to help us
to rebuild a new LINGUIST List at IU. We are
extremely grateful for the support from both
institutions, EMU and IU. We are sorry to move
further away from our local colleagues at all
the Michigan Universities, and we are glad to
be closer to our colleagues, friends and
supporters at IU in Bloomington. (But, we are
glad to have this cyber-infrastructure and
internet service to be - virtually at least -
close to all of you.)
At the same time, the Reviews-team of LINGUIST
will change. We will send out a separate
announcement about that soon.
I hope that you all understand better now that
we really need your support. We will need to
pay the students to help us during the summer.
We will need to train and hire a new student
editors team. And, we will need your
understanding too. There will surely be some
delays, problems, mistakes, technical issues,
which we will try to minimize, and we ask for
your patience while we move.
We are migrating part of the technical
operations to a new platform. Some servers will
have to be set up and reconfigured at the new
location. The processes and the online
interface are being redesigned completely, and,
and, and...
Please, if you can, do consider donating to The
LINGUIST List and help us manage this big
change at a new location, with new technology,
with a new design and functionality, and with
some of our old team members and a new team in
Bloomington.
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/
Thank you all for your support!
Best wishes
Damir
(Moderator of The LINGUIST List)
Page Updated: 08-May-2014