Quarterly Report for ELNA

Board members are supposed to write quarterly reports regarding their activity related to the ELNA board. I didn't write one last quarter (I think only one board-member did), but this year I resolve to do better. Below is what I submitted.

I have established and maintained a relationship with Global Voices, a Harvard-based organization that espouses values parallel with Esperanto, but that seemed largely unaware of Esperanto's existence. I have been trying to educate them about Esperanto, by maintaining a page listing Esperanto-language blogs: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/globalvoices/wiki/index.php/Esperanto I succeeded in recruiting a British esperantist, Tim Morley, to attend their first annual "summit" in London, where they were to discuss issues of multilingualism. I have agreed to write an article about this for Esperanto-USA.

I corresponded with the British Esperanto Association to get them to release to the public domain the rights to the 1906 book Esperanto: a Grammar and Commentary by George Cox. I am working with Robert Read and William Walter Patterson to make this excellent book (I think one of the best ever written in English about Esperanto) available via Project Gutenberg.

I developed a new strategy for local organizing: creating protest signs in Esperanto (e.g. ESPERANTISTOJ KONTRAUX MILITO) and having groups of esperantists attend demonstrations to hold signs. This is useful, as people will ask you what the signs say and why an Esperanto speaker is protesting and as pictures of the protest can show up in the media, putting words in Esperanto before the public's eye. http://blog.bierfaristo.com/?q=node/13 http://blog.bierfaristo.com/?q=node/14

Finally, I had a piece of fiction, "Milos kaj Donos" accepted for publication by Literatura Foiro! It probably doesn't have anything to do with the board, but it was very time-consuming and very satisfying nonetheless. :-)