From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 10 11:24:33 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou8H2-00023f-Qj for llg-members@lojban.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:24:33 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:24:32 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: 2010 Annual Meeting - Reports Message-ID: <20100910182432.GB20652@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <4C701E9E.1040101@lojban.org> <20100910181346.GY20652@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: 935 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 As a final push on top of a lot of other ground work, yes, it would be incredibly helpful, but at least two of the major players (Arnt and xorxes) won't enter the US, and shipping everyone else *out* of the US would cost much more than we have. -Robin On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:18:42PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > Would it help to get all or most of them together in a geographic > location, for a weekend explicitly set aside to do nothing else? > > -Matt > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG wrote: > >> We need a report from Robin on the status of the BPFK (byfy) > >> project, but he's indicated that we may need to be patient. > > > > There have been various bursts of activity.  Getting people to > > actually do the hard work (constructing definitions and searching > > for past controversy) remains somewhere between difficult and > > impossible.  The easy work (finding examples and grunt-work > > reformatting) is progressing decently well. > > > > At this point I'm feeling some urges to work on it myself, so if we > > can get the new CLL squared away as a starting point, I'll probably > > just grab a couple of local people and sit down for concentrated > > work on it, perhaps with xorxes via skype or something. > > > > On a personal level, I've been pretty disappointed with the > > community response.  It falls far short of what people > > enthusiastically declared they would do.  This is hardly surprising, > > though, and is in fact exactly what I expected.  I would rather have > > been wrong, though. > > > > -Robin > > > > -- > > http://singinst.org/ :  Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. > > Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot > > is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" > > is "na nei".   My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ > > > > > > > > -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/