From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 31 11:07:57 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nx2Kb-0003gZ-Jq for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:07:57 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:07:57 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Proposal: Lojban "Code Jam" Message-ID: <20100331180757.GS6084@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20100331175736.GR6084@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 642 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 That perception, I don't think you need to worry about. :) I think your basically saying "I thought I was an absolute dictator" got everyone's attention. :) On a more practical level WRT your proposal, a BPFK gathering without both xorxes and Arnt would be useless, and I don't expect you can convince either of them to come. -Robin On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:59:34PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > Sure, no problem. I've been holding off on this until I get more solid > numbers anyway. I just wanted to avoid the perception that I'm not > doing anything. > > -Matt > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:55:33PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > >> I want the LLG to rent a spacious cabin, fly in the most respected > >> authorities on the subject of Lojban, make them all BPFK members, > >> and do nothing but work on BPFK. I will be  session chair, and > >> also the cook. I am currently looking into cabin prices and > >> working out budgets for meals with ingredients from Gordon Food > >> Service. I can get whiteboards and other supplies for free from > >> conventions. Your thoughts? > > > > *PLEASE* wait on this sort of thing until I've posted my essay and > > seen what the community has to say.  Pretty please? > > > > Also, I'd really like things in general to slow down a bit; the pace > > of Lojban right now is negatively impacting my personal life.  Once > > we're done with Remod, could everything just wait a week or > > something? > > > > -Robin > > > > -- > > They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > > And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something > > other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz > > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > > > > > > > > -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/