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BPFK open for business
Not before time, the BPFK is hereby open for business.
There are two fora where BPFK work will be done. One is the TWiki
(http://www.lojban.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/BPFK/WebHome); the other is
the phpbb discussion forum (http://www.lojban.org/phpbb/).
In executive summary: I have divided up the cmavo of Lojban into
paradigms. One person (the "shepherd") will take on the job of
documenting everything there is to document about the paradigm (or
administer delegating it), and writes their findings, and proposed
definitions, on the Twiki. The same will happen for any broader
grammatical issues. The debate (in formal, point-counterpoint terms)
happens on the phpbb. There are polls conducted on the issues, back
on the Twiki, until consensus is reached. If two or more commission
members reject a proposal, the shepherd needs to water the proposal
down until it is broadly accepted.
I have written a monsterpiece guidelines on how I want business
transacted on the BPFK on
http://www.lojban.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/BPFK/GuidelinesForUsing .
It's scary and complicated, and Robin has summarised it; but do read
it anyway. This supplements my previous statements on the BPFK,and
the Board's.
Any further discussion on the BPFK, including meta-discussion,
belongs on the phpbb board -- in particular, in the forum "Varia:
Administrative Issues". The board is open for viewing *and* posting
by all members of the community. Votes in the polls are only open to
commission members, however.
All commission members, please register as users on both the phpbb
and the Twiki.
If you are a commission member (or self-nominated observer) and did
not get this through the bpfk-announce list, please let me know.
Two side issues. One: there shall be a Morphology Commission to
oversee work on the morphology. It shall be chaired by Nora
LeChevalier, and in the first instance will also have Lionel Vidal
and Pierre Abbat as members. Nora will not begin work on the
commission until she has discharged her duties as secretary of the
LLG; but relax: we're not going anywhere.
Two: those of you who had a hankering for translating Google into
Lojban --- there's a new project if you want it: phpbb can be
translated into Lojban too. See
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=41 if you're
interested (and serious!) And if you're a commission member: don't
even think of volunteering. You'll be busy enough keeping up with the
commision work.
This will be tough, and may Jeeg and Talen have mercy on us all.
mi'e nitcion noi jatna bypyfyky.
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* Dr Nick Nicholas, French & Italian Studies nickn@unimelb.edu.au *
Rm 637 Arts Centre, Melbourne University, Australia www.opoudjis.net
* "Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of locutional rendering, the *
circumscriptional appelations are excised." --- W. Mann & S. Thompson,
* _Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organisation_, 1987. *
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