From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 31 09:50:31 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G7ayK-00065k-P9 for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:50:28 -0700 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:50:28 -0700 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: [ben@goertzel.org: Lojban: Interesting Grant Opportunity] Message-ID: <20060731165028.GL28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20060729213809.GA28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060730010916.GD28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <44CD79A8.5070803@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44CD79A8.5070803@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 136 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:31:52PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:29:56AM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >> > >> > >>>----- Forwarded message from Ben Goertzel ----- > >>> > >>>So, what I'm asking for now is whether you would > >>>-- allow me to list your names as collaborators, on the white paper > >>>-- review the white paper and make suggestions [of course if you > >>>really don't like it, you can remove your name before I submit it] > >> > >>I'm in. > > > > > > Me too, but I want first dibs if in actual job comes out of this. > > :-) > > > > We should make sure he has available the proposal I created many > years ago (with I think Sheldon Linker's help) that was an NSF > small business initiative grant program, but the ideas might be a > good basis for a university-based project as well. > > If you don't have it in the stuff I've sent you previously Robin, > I can dig through the archives. If I have it, I don't know how to find it. > ni'o > > Alas, the people that I knew that we had at universities 10 years > ago or whenever I wrote that proposal are either lost-contacts for > me, or as in pc's case retired, so I have no suggestions on that > aspect. Too bad. > I mention it because this is where my forever-attempts to bring my > archaic dbase-based address-list into the Internet era so that we > had a good set of data on our community members and their > interests and connections would have come in handy. Ideas for > building a new data base of the community should be considered. > > I'm sure that there is a better way which gains us information > comparable to what the old registration form provided, and which > protects the privacy of community members. But maybe someone else > besides me should figure out how to do it right %^) I'm not sure I'm following you. You're suggesting we try to gather personal information about people interested in Lojban? Names, addresses, occupations, interests? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/