From matt.mattarn@gmail.com Thu Jun 21 14:41:14 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.180]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I1UOr-0002eW-IT for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:41:12 -0700 Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c29so797682ika for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:41:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mW6W4Dx6obcLYnBfZoYkWxBIavkumWoGTdn3dFPW13kQeZO+fyBQ+pjF58Ud6GwVbNX1iUFdSeVlsix2A6UgqNDpDGBdWPfN+ErHDIUyFIorXMtAbmI1qduW1SASMlsPIft0m+dnzANHWv4gCLLks1tA/l+c2Fciy+M6ManEyos= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aoh5SEr0GwjHg2BjajdVuXVgQR4EPirlKYA7bGqYN5qooM1YJE+AyfIQbFHjN/HYAimwdoEleDXFUgVsxzNhgVCnO8BsAEvjc4HYa00J0OUK1qenrTIbYidybz9KcTWURCVuvZBUPb6NnyU/UrHCfaJv9iGA5V+4zgf7Ouv8fvs= Received: by 10.78.147.6 with SMTP id u6mr1217154hud.1182462067091; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.118.16 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:41:07 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Obligatory contact report %^) In-Reply-To: <467AE76C.6090007@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <467AE76C.6090007@lojban.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 300 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board I'm completely available for such interviews! I have experience with them. -Eppcott On 6/21/07, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > I just spent an hour and a half on the phone with a reporter for the Los > Angeles Times who is doing some sort of feature story on constructed > languages, and who was obviously very interested in Lojban. This is a > medium term project for her, so if an article appears it might be a > month from now. > > I gave her lots of information, as "Founder", focusing on the "what" and > "why" questions under which the project was started. I think that if > she wants to talk to someone else, Robin would be good at providing > stuff on the current net-based community and actual usage of the > language. (It isn't clear that she does want to talk to anyone else, and > I don't have a good feel for what her angle is, but if I have a clue > from her line of questioning then that is where she will want to get > more information). He's also in the right time zone for her. > > (Matt would also be good as a spokesman from an entirely different > angle, but I haven't seen him posting of late, so I don't know his > availability. And I have no contact info for him other than his email). > > Robin please make sure I have your current cell or other phone number > just in case she calls again - I probably have it, but it wasn't handy > and I wouldn't be sure that it is correct. In any event, I will try to > have her reach you by email first if she calls again. > > I think it would be useful if Robin or someone could come up with some > useful numbers on the current size of the community - the size of the > membership of the two mailing lists (minus any overlap between them). > How many people contribute to the wiki (which presumably is > approximately the number of people who have ids). How many people > participate in various online activities like IRC and your storytime. > How many have Second Life avatars that do Lojbanic activities. And of > course how many copies have been sold/downloaded of the various books. > > These kinds of questions are the sorts we need to have answers to when a > reporter contacts us, as seems to happen about once a year. I hate > giving a wild guess for something that might make the major press, as I > had to today. If she contacts us again, having good estimates for these > sorts of numbers would give a better impression of our competence as the > international umbrella organization for Lojbanists. > > lojbab > > > >