<div>John Cowan is known to Lojbanists as a long-time leader of the Lojban community, developer of the first official parser of the language, and as the author of  the “red book”, The Complete Lojban Language (CLL).

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

<div>In the last couple of years, John has suffered from multiple medical conditions, along with the loss of his wife, leaving him living alone in Manhattan, New York City.  Last year, those conditions worsened, and he spent time in a rehab facility.  But he is no longer able to live independently.  After nursing him back to health enough to enable it, his daughter Irene helped him move down to Virginia Beach, where he has been staying with Irene and her husband (my son Avgust Michael) and their several kids.  The apartment isn’t suitable for the long term because it is too small and John cannot easily manage stairs, so the family is anticipating moving back up here to the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC next summer when the lease ends.

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

<div>All of John’s household stuff (furniture, clothes, books) remained in the Manhattan apartment until now, and we finally arranged to move his stuff down here to the DC area, where we can sort it and store what should be kept until the family moves back here.  The move took place last week (Mar 5-7).

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

<div>The GoFundMe is intended to defray the costs of the move, and the storage fees for a few months.  The move was estimated to cost $6500, but that estimate turned out to be much too low, since it took 2 full days for packing and then moving the stuff, and extra packing supplies had to be purchased at NYC retail prices.  The total came to $11,818, which includes the first month of storage.  We expect additional storage costs of $2000-$2500 until the final move takes place in July or August.

</div>

<div>Because these donations will be taxable to John, we are adding $3500 in estimated taxes and rounding up to make the target for this fundraiser $17,500.

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

<div>This does not include any costs for that summer move to back to the DC suburbs.

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

<div>I, Bob LeChevalier = lojbab have fronted the $11,818, so the donated money will initially be reimbursing me. I’ll probably be the one paying for the storage from the funds, and will pass the additional money to John for taxes and other expenses.

</div>

<div>I

</div>

<div>Any excess funds raised above the target amount will go towards that later move or to John’s continuing medical costs.

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

<div><br />

</div>

Pavel Minaev

Byron Johnson

Robin Powell

ROBERTO J CERRUD CAMPOS

Alex Shinn

Anonymous

Arthur A. Gleckler

Zearen Wover

Jessica Schmidt

Jason Hemann

Tina Gunnarsson

Yannis Haralambous

Piermaria Maraziti

Adam Cerini

Arnt Richard Johansen

LYNN VAN HAUWE

Join Us in Supporting John Cowan

platform

Platform is iOS

Android

Adyen Google Pay Development Audience

$opt_dummy_attribute

English only

Deprecate Stripe Legacy

dyn_template_ids

Adyen V6 Bene Transfer & MyMoney Campaign Organizers - test01

Bene transfer V6 and AdyenV6MyMoney Campaign Organizers - production

OneTrust next-app audience

fundCountryCode

NextDoor Share Option Users

Fundraisers with Reactions feature capability

fundCurrencyCode

US + Non-charity COs Only

locale

fund country is US and user language is English

personId

comms-internal-person-ids

Enhanced Story Experience Users

Suggested Goal Experience Users

user language is English and fund country: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

Poster share - new funds eligible (newest 9/18)

Streaming widgets beta user

paymentProcessor

3DS payment method

user language is English and fundCountry: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

currencyCode

Money Box Donation List Prompt Experiment Audience

GoFundMe Employees

ipAddress

Mark Rieth IP Address

Version 9.2.0 and above

Fund is in English speaking country

desktop

Android v12.11.0 and above

Platform is Android

paymentMethodType

checkoutType

Payment method type group to be vaulted on success

admin pr kit prod

EUR Donation Upsell

Share Text generation Skip Fundraiser

(prod) new funds eligible for amp12 (UGC gallery)

fintrac_cad_idv_form_v2 audience

paymentProcessorAccountId

fallback mode accounts

proCampaignId

p2p legacy startfundraising page

AMP24 New Funds Only PROD (DO NOT MODIFY)

countryCode

charityId

UKCharities

Federated Search Internal Testing

route.pathname community

US Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks Feature Audience

Supporter Comments Eligible Funds

International Only

fundId

braze fundraiser group 

Payment Identity Transfers ATO Risk Check (Targeted) - Production

Fundraiser Saved Payment Method Rate Limit Bypass (Production)

leaderboard-partner-id-audience-givepanel

Eligible for Profile Comment Badge

Version 9.2.1 and above

AUD Donation Upsell audience

fundraiserCountryCode is US/EN

Active Fundraiser - Smart Default Cadence

DAF Internal

Vault on success card payment method

Platform is iOS v11.0.0 and above

Desktop users

Person ids

United States (US) users

allow yuno fundraisers for test

Mexico country code

Posters INTL

NPO Profile Opted-In

iOS at or above 12.4.0

non-US recurring donors

Canada Campaign Owner Group

Fundraiser Without Meta Link

Scheduler payment tester gorup

charityCommunityId

Charities allow to be claimed unclaimed (PRD)

Canada (CA) users

UC Tipping v20250115 International

pymk_production_xplr_fe_team

Android at or above 12.2.0

Profile photo entry point audience

smart goals (fundraiser/manage) on test01

Activity Tracking v1 Beta Testing

writePath

Stream Notification

start gfm intl allowed locales

Platform is iOS v11.2.0 and above

NPO upsell education category

unclaimed charities

prod_ach_audience

AI Chatbot Audience

amp13 only new funds (prod) (anyword auto)

UC Flow Enabled (Prod)

Payment Identity Beneficiary Verification - Production

shared notification bell audience

Custom users

ach frontend audience

Android v11.0.0 and above

Users Receiving Payments Paused Notifications

smart goals test01

Manage Coach - US English Organizers Only + new funds only

Team EGG - IP Address list

NPO recommendations prod

Fundraiser Without Instagram Deep Link

Native 11.4.0 and above

UC Tipping v20250107

ai_title_page

anyword

openai

control

manual_entry

userEmail

template_id

userId

fundUrl

isCharityCo

email

appVersion

shouldBucketIntoExperiment

partnerId

isEligibleForProfileCommentBadge

donationCadence

isActiveFundraiser

isPartner

isMobile

npoProfileOptIn

fundIsLinkedWithMeta

hasSessionDonation

categoryGroup

isCampaignOwner

fundHasInstagramDeepLink

Native 11.3.0 and above

Native 11.4.0 and higher

New funds eligible - Video Sharing (PROD)

GB Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks V3 Rollout Audience

Thank you V3 testing whitelist

isRecurringFriendly

Is Recurring Friendly

Excluded funds - Video Sharing

NPO upsell animals category

NPO upsell disaster relief category

Logged In Users

CH Donation Upsell audience

Android v10.6.0 and above

NPO upsell essential needs category

NPO upsell medical category

userCurrencyCode

Localized Currency

NPO upsell cancer category

v11.5.0 and above

testAudience

pathname

Survicate

appVersion is at or above 12.8.0

Non-charity fund

isChallengeFundraiser

challenge-fundraisers

Payment Identity Launch Verification - Production

New funds eligible - Posters v2

CAD Donation Upsell Audience

Braze Email Tester

NPO Profile Opted-Out

iOS App Version

hasKnownDonors

PYMK has donors

iOS v12.3.0 and above

Join Us in Supporting John Cowan

Still $7,825 to go. Help us build momentum.