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  1. apw9900
    Yes, you must be busy. Because looking at the list of artists that have been granted access to LEA sims, it do look like ex-committee members doesn't have problems getting one. But that is something I might bring up in another thread at another time.
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    Please enlighten me ... Tell me how something I wrote on YouTube 2 days ago retroactively could have affected the respond to a question I posted to the LEA Facebook group in June last year. Do you actually mean, that the LEA Committee is so foresighted that they already 15 months ago knew I would make comments to a maschinima Iono Allen released 5 days ago? Or have we reached a point by now where some of you have run out of arguments and instead of relating to the actual topic of this thread you start using distractions in order avoid giving position? But for your sake I will repete what my topic is: 1) For more than a year there has been less than 7 members of the LEA Committee. The Bylaws states that there must be a minimum of 7 members. 2) Three (3) members of the LEA Commitee has exceeded the two term policy stated in the LEA Bylaws. Hence, the LEA Committee hasn't been competent to transact business for quite some time according to their own bylaws I rather like to hear your view on that dilemma.
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    By not leaving their seats in the committee after serving 2 terms looks very much to me like working after an alternate agenda.
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    If committee members left their seats when their time ran out it would be a great improvement. If committee members were elected and not chosen it would be a great improvement. If LEA focused more on new and upcoming artists instead of giving land to already established artists that too would be a great improvement.
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    And both current caretakers has exceeded their two terms in the committee by 10 months by now. According to the bylaws their time ran out in January this year.
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    I actually did make a short plan on the very first page of this thread: I would suggest that every 2 years there were held an open election where candidates could run for a seat in the Committee. That way a candidate would be elected based on his or hers vision for the next two years instead being chosen based on friendship and relation with existing committee members. And committee meetings shouldn't be a secret. Summaries of all meetings should be public (unless of course there is a reason for keeping them secret in case of protecting 'personal information' and so on). That way each Committee member would be held responsible for his/her action at the next election. Do a good job and you can get your second term. ***** it up and you're out. Or in other words: more transparency in the way LEA is run.
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    I want the LEA Committee to work by the LEA Bylaws and not by their own agenda. It's quite simple actually.
  8. apw9900
    Looks like the thread is going a bit off topic. It has never been about money, tip jars, long working hours or potential financial compensation for being a member of the LEA Committee. My post was about the LEA Committee that, according to the LEA Bylaws, hasn't been competent to transact business for two reasons: 1) For more than a year there has been less than 7 members of the LEA Committee. The Bylaws states that there must be a minimum of 7 members. 2) Three (3) members of the LEA Commitee has exceeded the two term policy stated in the LEA Bylaws. Hence, every decision made by the LEA Committee for more than a year has been invalid. But, some might say, they changed the bylaws last year so everything is fine now. The LEA Committee might have done so, but when doing so one of the members of the committee had exceeded his term by 2 years and was (and still is) a member of the committee when the decision to change the bylaws was made. Hence, that decision too is invalid. That's what my post is about.
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    This is getting more and more funny and interesting :-D
  10. apw9900
    Actually no one is making up lies in this thread. At the LEA website it says: "The LEA is run and organized by users of Second Life, with resources generously donated by Linden Lab." And in the LEA blog it says: "The Linden Endowment of the Arts is an official Linden Community Partnership program (...)" Neither on their website, nor on the SL wikipage or in the LEA blog is any word about private ownership of LEA. We are just relating to the public information provided by LEA. (added) LaPiscean has only been a committee member for the last 5 years according to what LEA publish on their site.
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    There are a couple of things wrong in your statement, Livio. I have actually seen several tip jars on LEA sims I have visited. And Dekka didn't talk about being an unpaid artist on a LEA sim. He was talking about the textures he made for LEA as a member of the committee. And finally I have never talked bad about any artist using a LEA sim. The rest of your post seemed a bit uncontrolled to me, so I wont comment on that. Perhaps you just need to actually read what this thread is all about so your opinion is based on facts and not your personal prejudices.
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    Hello Livio :-) Long time no see. This has nothing what so ever to do with Solo. He is no longer a part of LEA. But we are still exchanging arguments from time to time. This time we are talking about Iono Allen's latest machinima 'The Big Ego' on YouTube. Look it up and take part of the discussion.
  13. apw9900
    A question of interpretation :-) But let's look at the facts: One current member of the LEA Committee has had a seat in each and every committee since the beginning of LEA in 2010. His two terms should have ended in 2014 according to the bylaws in force at the time. Dispite of that he continued to be a part of the committee. And he still is. That means that every single decision made by the LEA Committee since 2014 has been invalid due to his presence in the committee. That includes recruiting new members to the committee, finding artists to exhibit at the LEA sims - and also the decision to remove the LEA Bylaws from the website replacing them with a set of 'organizational bylaws'. It has been invalid because it was a violation of the two terms policy stated in the bylaws in force at the time for each decision made by the committee since 2014. So I actually do believe the word 'fraud' is the right to use ;-)
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    And even if there had been such a meeting whatever decision the committee had reached would have been inapplicable as one of the committee members at the time would have had a seat in the committee for 6 years which is not in accordance with the existing Bylaws at the time. And then we for sure are talking about fraud. And even if the LEA Committee really had made changes to the Bylaws in a legit way, they could have answered my questions more than a year ago and this thread wouldn't have been necessary. So I am still waiting for LEA to give me a satisfactory answer to my two questions in the original post.
  15. apw9900
    I don't have the gallery anymore. I shut it down ealier this year. It was getting too big and I didn't have sufficient time for taking properly care of it. In real life me and two mates reunited and old band from our highschool days and we have been busy writing and recording new songs for an album. At the moment we are working on story lines and story boards for videos. But Glasz DeCuir made a video of my gallery and the artists I exhibited. That will give you a hint of how it looked:
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    Oh, my fight with Solo has nothing to do with my issues on LEA. But Solo was once also one of the reasons while LEA was brought to my attention. Solo and I are still crossing swords, however, but now it's on YouTube :-) In the comments to this video for which I did some voice over:
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    I have an interest in art. And for about 5 years I had quite a large gallery (I have been told it was one of the largest private galleries) in Second Life with about 250-300 pieces of 2D and 3D art made by both known and unknown artists. And by talking with the artists I got to know how difficult it was to get access to a LEA sim if you weren't on a friendly level with the LEA Committee members. Many of them had to struggle hard to find an audience while they could watch how already established artists got access to the LEA sims over and over again. And as far as I understand it that wasn't the purpose with the LEA sims. That's why I spend time on the way LEA works and specially not works.
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    The headline of the page says: LEA Operational Guidelines It is not the LEA Bylaws but a set of guidelines telling the public what the committee does and how the committee works. I have no information that the committee have had any meeting where they have used section 12.1 to change/remove the original bylaws. And even if there had been such a meeting whatever decision the committee had reached would have been inapplicable as one of the committee members at the time would have had a seat in the committee for 6 years which is not in accordance with the existing Bylaws at the time. And then we for sure are talking about fraud.
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    I really don't think that is going to happen. The LEA Committee doesn't like to answer troublesome questions. I posted the attached questions to their Facebook group a while ago. I never got an answer but shortly, very shortly after I was banned from the group.
  20. apw9900
    I'd say the LEA Committee made their own interpretation of the Bylaws and then removed them from their site.
  21. apw9900
    Very trimmed indeed. They have removed the Bylaws :-)
  22. apw9900
    Funny you should ask about a link to the LEA Bylaws :-) Because the LEA Committee removed the Bylaws from their website when I started asking questions about the LEA Committee with references to the Bylaws. But fortunately the internet never forgets and by using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine it's still possible to access them: https://web.archive.org/web/20160216054505/http://lea-sl.org/about/lea-bylaws And regarding my statement that the Committee members only cares about themselves .... It's not possible to apply for a seat in the Committee. And there is no public election for the Committee. The only way you can get a seat in the Committee is by being "assigned to the LEA committee by Linden Labs or unanimously voted in by the existing Committee Members" (4.1 in the LEA Bylaws). Hence, unless the Linden Labs picks you for the job the only way to get a seat is by rubbing shoulders with already existing members hoping that will get you in. Not a very democratic process. More like a nepotistic process. I would suggest that every 2 years there were held an open election where candidates could run for a seat in the Committee. That way a candidate would be elected based on his or hers vision for the next two years instead being chosen based on friendship and relation with existing committee members. And committee meetings shouldn't be a secret. Summaries of all meetings should be public (unless of course there is a reason for keeping them secret in case of protecting 'personal information' and so on). That way each Committee member would be held responsible for his/her action at the next election. Do a good job and you can get your second term. ***** it up and you're out. Or in other words: more transparency in the way LEA is run.
  23. apw9900
    When the LEA Committee is trusted with land to use for promoting art and artists and the members of that committee are playing by their own agenda and not by the official bylaws, then we have a problem - a huge problem. Bending the rules is not a solution. Bending rules is a danger signal. And it's not the rules that are problem. They are actually pretty fine making sure there is, or rather should be, a periodical exchange of members, so LEA always will be a dynamic committee and not a static. The problem is the current LEA Committee members. Some of them seems to have a feeling they own the committee keeping new and fresh ideas and concepts out only to persuit their own wishes. And they are doing that by favoring certain artists that keeps getting land over and over again while many artists never get access to land. Not much room for upcoming artists or alternative art forms. And to answer your question ... I am not an artists, hence I have never been rejected. And I have no intention of being a part of the LEA Committee. But I am deeply concerned about the way LEA is working. And I am concerned about the lack of transparency. Everything in the LEA Committe happens behind closed doors. Why the secrecy? LEA needs to be run by the artists and not by people who doesn't care about anything but themselves.
  24. apw9900
    Well, I brought the matter into public hoping that would make some noise - and with a little luck result in changes so art and not nepotism is what LEA deals with.
  25. apw9900
    Oh, LEA has an inworld group and I have asked questions there too, and no replies. And I have posted questions to LEA using their website contact form - no answer. But I did get banned from their Facebook group for asking so I know they have read it :-D I even brought Linden Lab to the attention of what's going on in LEA on Twitter. They didn't bother reply. And you are absolutely right. It do look like the LEA Committee has been hijacked by people who are following an alternative agenda. And that it sad. Because once LEA actually did do a lot of work for promoting upcoming Second Life artists. Now it more looks like the LEA Committee hands over land to private friends and already established artists.
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