From arj@nvg.ntnu.no Mon Oct 08 09:12:07 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IevD7-0008Pm-0I for llg-members@lojban.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:12:07 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA71594783 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:11:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l98GBLxq011483 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:11:21 +0200 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l98GBL4O011482 for llg-members@lojban.org; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:11:21 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:11:20 +0200 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG AGM 2007: Officer's Reports Message-ID: <20071008161120.GN1196@nvg.org> References: <20070918181955.GW10667@nvg.org> <20071007025639.GD20839@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071007025639.GD20839@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 350 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:19:55PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > 3. Officer's Reports > > I hereby call for officer's reports to be presented immediately[.] President's Report ------------------ Executive summary: with the exception of the BPFK's lack of progress, things are going better than ever in Lojbanistan. - Logfest 2006 took place at Philcon in Philadelphia from November 17-19, and was an outstanding success. The turnout was the largest ever since Logfest was moved out of the LeChevaliers' house. - Sometime around December 1st, Lojban was the subject of the webcomic XKCD (http://xkcd.com/191/), which resulted in a lot of people in our target audience to learn of our existence. - Very recently, Robin modified the editing system of Jbovlaste so that all registered users can edit any data. This has resulted in a surge of activity, and we hope this level of activity will continue. - There has been some progress on the Attitudinals checkpoint of BPFK, but we are currently stuck on account of one or more controversies regarding the semantics of some irrealis attitudinals. - The IRC channel #lojban on freenode is thriving, with 47 nicks present at the moment. (For those of you not familiar with IRC, or only familiar with IRC as it was ten years ago, this does not mean that they are active talkers. It is common to have one's IRC client connected 24/7, and only checking up on it occasionally.) Per the suggestion of Theodore Reed, off-topic banter in English among the regulars has been split off into #jbopre, in an attempt to not scare off the newbies. (And to hide the fact that Lojban's vocabulary isn't up to talking about anything. ::^) ) - jbobac, the lojbanic audiobord, has been established at http://jbobac.lojban.org/ by Timo Paulssen. While this may look like a frivolous enterprise at first glance, we have now obtained a free repository of various Lojban speech samples. As Robin pointed out, almost without noticing it, we are now able to provide Lojban learners with the one teaching resource they want the most. - Matt's LojbanQuest game design has been partially implemented with the help of Robin and others. The combat system is now being playtested. Playing the game is fun, instructional, and provides a pool of example sentences for BPFK, which helps with what most BPFK commissioners say is the most difficult part of their job. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Information wants to be anthropomorphized!