From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 23 10:53:19 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D41dF-0007xr-GP for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:53:09 -0800 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:53:09 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Presentation, visual aid grammar diagrams Message-ID: <20050223185309.GJ29535@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <41E57613.7060606@users.sourceforge.net> <20050222210350.GA6994@mit.edu> <421BE620.8050100@eubot.com> <200502231703.j1NH3NTd022802@mole.e-mol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502231703.j1NH3NTd022802@mole.e-mol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9518 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:03:23PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > #1, Since I'll be presenting to a group of open-source computer > programmers, they might be tempted to join the Lojban community if > I show them a list of interesting applications that they could > make. What are the skills most needed, and the programs most > needed? I am very, very interested in a Lojban STT program, but have been told that there is more grunt work than technical skill needed to make this happen. Same with TTS. > What opportunities are currently available for group development > of Lojban-related software? I'd love to have some help on jbovlaste (which is LAMP; Perl + Mason specifically, over PostGres). I still think someone should translate The Sims. :-) I'm sure there are others, but nothing's coming to mind right ATM. > #2, For the visual presentation, I'd like to make graphics > inspired by the illustration in CLL chapter 12 depicting a type of > tinkertoy construction set. I intend to lean heavily on functional > elegance from an engineering standpoint-- the concept of Lojban as > a sophisticated toolkit. I wonder if I could extend this visual > metaphor of modular parts to explain the basics of gismu, cmavo > and place structures in a lojban sentence. Have any of you made > drawings of this nature? Not I. I'm not a very visual person. You may find that representing brivla as a sort of functional programming language might be useful. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/