From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 09 17:29:05 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IfPRg-0008E1-7K for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:29:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:29:04 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG AGM 2007: Officer's Reports: Secretary's Report Message-ID: <20071010002904.GA10376@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.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/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-archive-position: 358 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members Secretary's Report ------------------ I was (very) late with the minutes for last year; sorry about that. I seem to recall that Bob has had a couple of contact events over the year, but this is the only one I can currently remember: After 20 years, I have had the first serious request for access to the archives. Linguist Arika Okrent, who attended Logfest last year, is writing a book on artificial languages. One chapter will apparently deal with Loglan and Lojban, and she has requested access to our archived materials, especially for stuff on JCB and his expressed ideas. She's coming next Tuesday, and hopefully I will have cleaned up the accumulation enough that it will seem more like an archive than an accumulation, and that I can supply her with what she needs. I still think that's very cool, and would like to hear how it works out. Also, Bob asked me to share some statistical information about the mailing lists and other Lojbanic activity, so here we go; copied verbatim. On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:01:27PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > A thread on alt.languages.artificial has Don Harlow posting > statistics on membership and postings on various conlang mailing > lists. > > Can you reasonably easily give me for each of our two main lists > Lojban List and Lojban beginners list > a) number of list members 457 for the main list 413 for the beginner's list (both are probably a couple off due to admin accounts and such) > b) number of postings so far in 2007 417 for the main list 1590 for the beginner's list I make no particular representation of absolute accuracy for those either. > c) as a bonus because I think it is significant (some of the lists > he mentions probably have lots of members who are subscribed but > filtering and not actually reading and participating in the list), > number of different posters (distinct email addresses used for > posting is sufficient) 62 for the main list 67 for the beginner's list 104 unique between the two (which is higher than I'd have suspected). Again, this is all so far in 2007. > If you can easily determine how many of the subscribers there are > to the two lists combined, that might also be useful, since our > true mailing list population is the union of the two lists. Trivial. 685 unique subscriber addresses between the two lists. > Since I haven't been paying attention but believe it has been > discussed, what are the major current activities on line for live > spoken Lojban, and can you give me URLs and approximate frequency > of something actually taking place? http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojbanic+Forums&bl IRC: Continuous The MOO: Quite rare these days, I'm sorry to say; as much my fault as any. The website itself: Someone besides me edits a page every couple of days, maybe. jbovlaste: Varies wildly. The BFPK: Almost none. Voice Chat: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Story+Time+With+Uncle+Robin&bl happened a number of times, with good results; I've now moved on to running http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=tarci%20jamna%20dracyselkei which has only run once so far Nothing else comes immediately to mind. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/