Received: from mail-qk0-f189.google.com ([209.85.220.189]:33352) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZY7r3-0004kF-FU for lojban-list-archive@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:25:45 -0700 Received: by qkfj65 with SMTP id j65sf8757013qkf.0 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:25:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=date:from:to:message-id:subject:mime-version:content-type :x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :x-spam-checked-in-group:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe; bh=WXji5r/Tn7lCPiXYPeK8w5GUDo372mx3jnCLJyXxMkQ=; b=DcKEFSs2yhcPcy9Nr6AKehwBZL46S95eQ6wpdzNVBOJzZ79cLpgzf6FxxeFoIh5p8B M3wfCySQM13iyY1NcuyO6Nv/exKErb2ts849rQIWSgVLKuoG1xKs10YO39P7NWDQACN4 llCXC1b97/Xjbe9D9badzqN8h8Ih/dCP5VUEPIA4RtPM5t7FIpQZoY6ZT4q2CLu5Yut6 v7RO7HjPvud9hjJGGOzfDZM7cFrpVCEdkVY1mL5iq31iU0vaDzbry1bV+Et622pCDlWM dsKPrZ0PK0M5eNruWXcrgHz/kX8N09SuKUK4TqEvCR+MykhtA+bZV6mj7RqNyCfTjbAv u37Q== X-Received: by 10.140.19.85 with SMTP id 79mr70729qgg.22.1441437935377; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:25:35 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.140.86.52 with SMTP id o49ls1594330qgd.95.gmail; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:25:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.17.73 with SMTP id 67mr71009qgc.17.1441437934563; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 00:25:34 -0700 (PDT) From: mukti To: lojban Message-Id: Subject: [lojban] jbonunsla 2015 recap MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_1503_885585483.1441437934116" X-Original-Sender: secretary@lojban.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Spam-Checked-In-Group: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_bar: - ------=_Part_1503_885585483.1441437934116 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1504_501900697.1441437934117" ------=_Part_1504_501900697.1441437934117 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 For those who may interested, I=E2=80=99ve written up a brief review of my= =20 experience of this year=E2=80=99s jbonunsla, which took place last weekend = (August=20 28-30) at the Holiday Inn in Princeton, New Jersey. I took the train from New York City, arriving in Princeton fairly late=20 Friday night. Pierre Abbat (who had driven up from North Carolina) and Mark= =20 Shoulson (=E2=80=9Cclsn=E2=80=9D, who lives nearby) had arrived some time b= efore me, and=20 wandered down to join me in the restaurant just before it closed. I was=20 excited to meet these two, who are the second and third lojbanists whom I= =20 had ever met in person. I had corresponded with Pierre over the last year while making some small= =20 additions to the Lojban Bible translation project that Pierre maintains:=20 https://github.com/phma/lojban-bible Mark I knew mostly from reading old message board threads where he=20 introduced the =E2=80=9Cdotside=E2=80=9D notation:=20 https://mw.lojban.org/papri/BPFK:_Old_Morphology I think Pierre was the first to speak lojban: He=E2=80=99s mastered a numbe= r of=20 lojban tongue twisters. (Pierre, are those collected anywhere?) tsani=20 arrived some time later, having trained down from Montr=C3=A9al, and it was= then=20 that we started to jbota=E2=80=99a in earnest. (to ki=E2=80=99e la tsani to= i) Saturday morning, I found Pierre already at work preparing the meeting=20 room. He had created construction paper letters using the initials B=20 (be=E2=80=99a), D (du=E2=80=99a), N (ne=E2=80=99a), V (vu=E2=80=99a) to mar= k the cardinal directions in the=20 room. Suitably oriented, we played a recording of the lojban anthem ( https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban_Anthem) to mark the beginning of the=20 conference. Welcome to lojbanistan! fi=E2=80=99i do=E2=80=99o Pierre brought his concertina, =E2=80=9CTina=E2=80=9D, and I brought my gui= tar, so we=20 played a few songs, including bits from Djemynai=E2=80=99s album (e.g. =C2= =ABnasa=C2=BB) and=20 some songs Pierre had translated such as =C2=ABdoi cevni do'u .au mi jbize'= a do=C2=BB=20 (=E2=80=9CNearer, My God, To Thee=E2=80=9D). durka42 arrived from Philadelphia in time to join the the CLL edit-a-thon= =20 which connected, via Skype and IRC, those of us in the Princeton with=20 Robin, Ilmen, mezohe and others. We managed to review quite a few chapters,= =20 and to iterate with Robin on the solution to some widespread formatting=20 issues. durka incorporated the latest changes in the automatic build that= =20 he hosts: http://alexburka.com/lojban/prince.php Work on preparing CLL for reprint continues, as can be seen by the list of= =20 issues on github: https://github.com/lojban/cll/issues Brian Wernham of NooLearn, who had just flown in from London, arrived=20 towards the end of the edit-a-thon, and helped us eat some delivery pizza.= =20 Then lojbab and noras logged into the #lojban channel on IRC for a chat in= =20 lojban and English. At some point during the chat, we played =C2=ABlo jbobau cu mo=C2=BB ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DN-Y9eBBTrxU) and Djemynai=E2=80=99s newes= t song,=20 =C2=ABtensa=C7=90a=C2=BB (https://djemynai.bandcamp.com/album/tensaia) and = clsn opined=20 that lojban, with it=E2=80=99s comparatively short words and rhyme and stre= ss=20 patterns is well-suited for rap. Nora was asked if she had anything to do with =C2=ABfanmo jimte=C2=BB, a re= markable=20 film on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJ_nKJW_KuK4) which is=20 narrated in lojban and attributed to a =E2=80=9CNora Lee=E2=80=9D. Nora sai= d that was=20 someone else. (On Sunday, I found some more information about the film and= =20 added it to the Lojban timeline:=20 https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban_timeline#2008) tsani had the attendees at the conference sign his copy of la xuncku. One= =20 of the attendees included a message written in srilermorna script ( https://mw.lojban.org/papri/srilermorna). After dinner, we watched and discussed videos in lojban including =C2=ABlo = cizra=20 zarci=C2=BB (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMmtQ0NcVFjI) an original sto= ry in=20 lojban by tsani, read by selpa=E2=80=99i, and a few episodes of bripre jikc= a ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dc6fXtgkPdWQ). We also had to bid farewell= =20 to durka42. Activities commenced after breakfast on Sunday morning with an=20 international chat via Mumble, which included a few rounds of =C2=ABla re n= o=20 preti=C2=BB. Good fun. Then, with Brian=E2=80=99s assistance, attendees in Princeton and elsewhere= via=20 Internet (e.g. selpa=E2=80=99i, Ilmen, Broca) signed into NooLearn=E2=80=99= s servers ( https://noolearn-staging.herokuapp.com/) to write and review hundreds of=20 questions in and about Lojban, renewing efforts to devise a Lojban=20 proficiency exam. As a follow-up, Pierre has asked for volunteers to join= =20 LBCK (lojbo bangu cipra kamni) to continue this work:=20 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lojban-lbck We said farewell to Brian Sunday afternoon, and I returned to Brooklyn=20 Sunday evening. I was glad to have the opportunity to meet lojbanists in person, and to=20 participate in exchanges between lojbanists of many generations, including= =20 founders, and those around the world. I was also inspired by revisiting and= =20 sharing the songs, stories and videos that people have created with lojban,= =20 and by the work of people contributing to efforts such as LBCK and the=20 republication of CLL. Thank you to Pierre for taking the initiative to organize jbonunsla, to=20 Brian for helping to sponsor jbonunsla, and for making NooLearn available= =20 to us as a resource, to Robin for heading up the CLL edit-a-thon, to Bob=20 and Nora for joining us in IRC, and to everyone else who attended or=20 participated in jbonunsla. If anyone else would like to contribute towards= =20 the cost of jbonunsla, please feel free to do so via LLG=E2=80=99s PayPal d= onation=20 form: http://tiki.lojban.org/tiki/Donations =E2=80=94Riley mu=E2=80=99o mi=E2=80=99e la mukti --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. 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For those who may interested, I=E2=80=99ve written up a bri= ef review of my experience of this year=E2=80=99s jbonunsla, which took pla= ce last weekend (August 28-30) at the Holiday Inn in Princeton, New Jersey.=


I took the train from New York City, arriving in Princeton = fairly late Friday night. Pierre Abbat (who had driven up from North Caroli= na) and Mark Shoulson (=E2=80=9Cclsn=E2=80=9D, who lives nearby) had arrive= d some time before me, and wandered down to join me in the restaurant just = before it closed. I was excited to meet these two, who are the second and t= hird lojbanists whom I had ever met in person.


I had corresponded with Pierre over the last year while mak= ing some small additions to the Lojban Bible translation project that Pierr= e maintains: https://githu= b.com/phma/lojban-bible


Mark I knew mostly from reading old message board threads w= here he introduced the =E2=80=9Cdotside=E2=80=9D notation: https://mw.lojban.org/papri/BP= FK:_Old_Morphology


I think Pierre was the first to speak lojban: He=E2=80=99s = mastered a number of lojban tongue twisters. (Pierre, are those collected a= nywhere?) tsani arrived some time later, having trained down from Montr=C3= =A9al, and it was then that we started to jbota=E2=80=99a in earnest. (to k= i=E2=80=99e la tsani toi)


Saturday morning, I found Pierre already at work preparing = the meeting room. He had created construction paper letters using the initi= als B (be=E2=80=99a), D (du=E2=80=99a), N (ne=E2=80=99a), V (vu=E2=80=99a) = to mark the cardinal directions in the room. Suitably oriented, we played a= recording of the lojban anthem (https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban_Anthem) to mark the begi= nning of the conference. Welcome to lojbanistan! fi=E2=80=99i do=E2=80=99o<= /p>


Pierre brought his concertina, =E2=80=9CTina=E2=80=9D, and = I brought my guitar, so we played a few songs, including bits from Djemynai= =E2=80=99s album (e.g. =C2=ABnasa=C2=BB) and some songs Pierre had translat= ed such as =C2=ABdoi cevni do'u .au mi jbize'a d= o=C2=BB (=E2=80=9CNearer, My God, To Thee=E2=80=9D).


durka42 arrived from Philadelphia in tim= e to join the the CLL edit-a-thon which connected, via Skype and IRC, those= of us in the Princeton with Robin, Ilmen, mezohe and others. We managed to= review quite a few chapters, and to iterate with Robin on the solution to = some widespread formatting issues. durka incorporated the latest changes in= the automatic build that he hosts: http://alexburka.com/lojban/prince.php


Work on preparing CLL for reprint contin= ues, as can be seen by the list of issues on github: https://github.com/lojban/cll/issues<= /p>


Brian Wernham of NooLearn, who had just flown in from Londo= n, arrived towards the end of the edit-a-thon, and helped us eat some deliv= ery pizza. Then lojbab and noras logged into the #lojban channel on IRC for= a chat in lojban and English.


At some point during the chat, we played =C2=ABlo jbobau cu= mo=C2=BB (https:= //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DN-Y9eBBTrxU) and Djemynai=E2=80=99s newest = song, =C2=ABtensa=C7=90a=C2=BB (https://djemynai.bandcamp.com/album/tensaia) and clsn opin= ed that lojban, with it=E2=80=99s comparatively short words and rhyme and s= tress patterns is well-suited for rap.


Nora was asked if she had anything to do with =C2=ABfanmo j= imte=C2=BB, a remarkable film on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJ_nKJW_KuK4)= which is narrated in lojban and attributed to a =E2=80=9CNora Lee=E2=80=9D= . Nora said that was someone else. (On Sunday, I found some more informatio= n about the film and added it to the Lojban timeline: https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban_= timeline#2008)


tsani had the attendees at the conference sign his copy of = la xuncku. One of the attendees included a message written in srilermorna s= cript (https://mw.lojba= n.org/papri/srilermorna).


After dinner, we watched and discussed videos in lojban inc= luding =C2=ABlo cizra zarci=C2=BB (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMmtQ0NcVFjI) an ori= ginal story in lojban by tsani, read by selpa=E2=80=99i, and a few episodes= of bripre jikca (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dc6fXtgkPdWQ). We also had to bid far= ewell to durka42.


Activities commenced after breakfast on Sunday morning with= an international chat via Mumble, which included a few rounds of =C2=ABla = re no preti=C2=BB. Good fun.


Then, with Brian=E2=80=99s assistance, attendees in Princet= on and elsewhere via Internet (e.g. selpa=E2=80=99i, Ilmen, Broca) signed i= nto NooLearn=E2=80=99s servers (https://noolearn-staging.herokuapp.com/) to write and review h= undreds of questions in and about Lojban, renewing efforts to devise a Lojb= an proficiency exam. As a follow-up, Pierre has asked for volunteers to joi= n LBCK (lojbo bangu cipra kamni) to continue this work: https://groups.google.com/foru= m/#!forum/lojban-lbck


We said farewell to Brian Sunday afternoon, and I returned = to Brooklyn Sunday evening.


I was glad to have the opportunity to meet lojbanists in pe= rson, and to participate in exchanges between lojbanists of many generation= s, including founders, and those around the world. I was also inspired by r= evisiting and sharing the songs, stories and videos that people have create= d with lojban, and by the work of people contributing to efforts such as LB= CK and the republication of CLL.


Thank you to Pierre for taking the initiative to organize j= bonunsla, to Brian for helping to sponsor jbonunsla, and for making NooLear= n available to us as a resource, to Robin for heading up the CLL edit-a-tho= n, to Bob and Nora for joining us in IRC, and to everyone else who attended= or participated in jbonunsla. If anyone else would like to contribute towa= rds the cost of jbonunsla, please feel free to do so via LLG=E2=80=99s PayP= al donation form: http://= tiki.lojban.org/tiki/Donations


=E2=80=94Riley

mu=E2=80=99o mi=E2=80=99e la mukti

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