From cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.bitnet!LOJBAN Mon Aug 31 00:40:39 1992 Return-Path: Date: Mon Aug 31 00:40:39 1992 Message-Id: <9208310200.AA16589@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!mullian.ee.mu.oz.au!nsn Sender: Lojban list From: cbmvax!uunet!mullian.ee.mu.oz.au!nsn Subject: Cafe Jbolaz proposal X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: nsn@ee.mu.oz.au To: John Cowan Status: RO Not that my megalomania should be showing tooo much :) , but I have this proposal for the project: Every two months, an electronic *and* snailmail set of Cafe descriptions gets mailed out --- this is necessary to allow the off-net participants to keep up to date. For net participants, a month after posting their cafe article on the net, they must submit a revision incorporating all comments made. For those off net, the newsletter ed forwards all comments (net and snail), allowing the contributor to post a revision, say, four months later. The newsletter is all-Lojban, and people (preferably on the net, and preferably grammar- competent) can take turns editing it. The newsletter is cafe *only*, other literature being forwarded as usual for JL consideration. Cafe articles need not be tales at all --- *any* piece to do with the cafe (like Veijo's navigation or my Fraktur rant) is legit, as is any genre. If we all approve on this, the newsletter can be announced in JL. Some central on-net personage should be nominal editor (forwarding mail to the editor de jour); I'm not 100% that *I* should be invested with that honour :) , but I think it would be nice, (and, if the newsletter is to come out regularly, what with publishing of learning materials imminent, *necessary*) if the ed is outside Lojban Central. The ed de jour must commit him/herself to passing all articles through the current parser, and glossing lujvo as appropriate. Comments welcome, if not positively mandated. --- 'Dera me xhama t"e larm"e, T Nick Nicholas, EE & CS, Melbourne Uni Dera mbas blerimit | nsn@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au (IRC: nicxjo) Me xhama t"e larm"e! | Milaw ki ellhnika/Esperanto parolata/ Lumtunia nuk ka ngjyra tjera.' | mi ka'e tavla bau la lojban. je'uru'e - Martin Camaj, _Nj"e Shp'i e Vetme_ | *d'oh!*