From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Sep 15 06:34:13 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EFtsS-0004vO-TD for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:34:13 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.206]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EFtsQ-0004vH-Dp for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:34:12 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s1so119110nze for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:34:06 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=U0X1or6uf+26f9hDY21hXf1qU1B+KB/VCFlXP4CIxR1gAdwUFUixqwgKMPoFqY/lVqwmxMXj2Fu6bsIo/LM2niGMoc8AEeXTWd2mZgtTwF5qI1UxGZh6WsZT+ieE9dQG027OIvOP0F8ucBKs+npq+ArkmUo1BbTR4SAy9vHhhWA= Received: by 10.54.40.58 with SMTP id n58mr245356wrn; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.140.6 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:34:06 -0400 From: Matt Arnold To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Newbie Intro In-Reply-To: <535730ee05091421562c1d0060@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4770_13901469.1126791246052" References: <431A09AD.2000202@hypermetrics.com> <535730ee05091421562c1d0060@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 2075 X-Approved-By: matt.mattarn@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_4770_13901469.1126791246052 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/15/05, Nora Kischer-Browne wrote: >=20 > On 9/3/05, Matt Arnold wrote: > > > I am 15, am from Australia, and > > > > am NOT a geek (*gasp* surprise!)...I consider myself to be a=20 > comfortable > > > > black-box user with amateur HTML skills, but no further. > > > Haha... if you're into Lojban, I'm sorry, you're a geek. ;) > > I agree. Welcome to the noble fraternity of geeks (and sorority, let us= =20 > not > > forget Nora K.B.). > .iacu'i Don't tell me that I was the only girl on this list before > Naomi came along... I mean, come on. Sure, there's a bit of a skew in > the distribution. But me being the only female (and then only when I > feel like it)? Recockulous. :P ^_^;; I met someone on the IRC channel named .eimi., who claimed to be a mail lis= t=20 lurker, and Amy is a female name. I'd like to eventually have enough skill in myself > and enough interest on campus to be able to teach an extracurricular > class on it (or even have Lojban Club!) but I know that such things > are, shall we say, not so likely. Take it from someone who has actually started a local Lojban group meeting= =20 in his house, even when you have the perfect audience tailor-made for the= =20 language they will often suffer a sudden attack of outside life and need to= =20 drop out for a while. A more flexible solution will be provided by Web 2.0services such as messyboard, video conferencing and voice over I.P., through which all interested Lojbanists with an internet connection= =20 will be able to schedule a meeting together. Of course I mean mature and=20 functioning voice over I.P. software which has only recently born fruit. An= d=20 most importantly, just like any Web 2.0 feature, a Lojban webmeeting only= =20 works if Lojbanists show up. My dream is to host a bilingual Lojban interne= t=20 radio show with call-ins on a monthly or bi-weekly basis, and have a meetin= g=20 discussion agenda posted to the mailing lists in advance of each show. I=20 have a friend who runs a weekly internet radio show, which I co-host. There= =20 is a lot of activity from listeners over I.R.C. but my friend attests how= =20 difficult it is to set up technology to get call-ins. -epkat ------=_Part_4770_13901469.1126791246052 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/15/05, Nora Kischer-Browne <azetidine@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/3/05, Matt Arnold <matt.m= attarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am 15, am from Australia, an= d
> > > am NOT a geek (*gasp* surprise!)...I consider myself to= be a comfortable
> > > black-box user with amateur HTML skills, but no further.=
> > Haha... if you're into Lojban, I'm sorry, you're a geek. = ; ;)
>  I agree. Welcome to the noble fraternity of ge= eks (and sorority, let us not
> forget Nora K.B.).
.iacu'i Don't tell me that I was the only gi= rl on this list before
Naomi came along... I mean, come on. Sure, there'= s a bit of a skew in
the distribution. But me being the only female (and= then only when I
feel like it)? Recockulous. :P ^_^;;

I met someone on the IRC channel named .eimi., who claimed to be a mail lis= t lurker, and Amy is a female name.

I'd lik= e to eventually have enough skill in myself
and enough interest on campu= s to be able to teach an extracurricular
class on it (or even have Lojban Club!) but I know that such things
= are, shall we say, not so likely.

Take it from someone who has actually started a local Lojban group meeting in his house, even when you have the perfect audience tailor-made for the language they will often suffer a sudden attack of outside life and need to drop out for a while. A more flexible solution will be provided by Web 2.0 services such as messyboard, video conferencing and voice over I.P., through which all interested Lojbanists with an internet connection will be able to schedule a meeting together. Of course I mean mature and functioning voice over I.P. software which has only recently born fruit. And most importantly, just like any Web 2.0 feature, a Lojban webmeeting only works if Lojbanists show up. My dream is to host a bilingual Lojban internet radio show with call-ins on a monthly or bi-weekly basis, and have a meeting discussion agenda posted to the mailing lists in advance of each show. I have a friend who runs a weekly internet radio show, which I co-host. There is a lot of activity from listeners over I.R.C. but my friend attests how difficult it is to set up technology to get call-ins.
-epkat
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