From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 31 14:25:47 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G7fGk-0005Ed-0x for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:25:46 -0700 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:25:46 -0700 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: (Was: Interesting Grant Opportunity) Message-ID: <20060731212546.GQ28137@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 140 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 Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:43:26PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > > > 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? > > I have no desire to violate anyone's privacy, but I would enjoy > maintaining a social database where lojbanists could voluntarily > maintain profiles about themselves similar to that found on > networking sites. I would consider this part of le rolnai lojbo bo > nelci jikca. By the way, I have purchased the domain > http://www.rlnj.org. The only reason I haven't set this up a > social networking site already is that I have no skills as setting > up servers or administering server software. I can probably help with that, if you tell me what you want. -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/