Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:24:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199707291024.FAA06985@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: IRC X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-cc: colin@KINDNESS.DEMON.CO.UK, jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR, s_nickn@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU, sru@IC.NET, veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 2505 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Jul 29 05:24:17 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU I certainly do welcome people attempting to communicate via IRC in/about Lojban. At one time their was an IRC "bot" that would serve as a gismu lookup dictionary and which monitored that channel. But there was too little human use. I'd love to see more. There is one particular time where you WILL see IRC usage. This weekend, when we have the "international" gathering of Lojbanists called LogFest, we will have ppeople attending physically on one or two computers and are inviting the worldwide Lojban community to attend via IRC. In the past we have had from 3 to 5 IRC sessions lasting to 2 hours and up, with most of the participants being international. I have proposed the following times which are "normal" for us, at which times we will be trying to support IRC conversation. I believe that GMT is EDT + 4 hours, but if not, then believe the EDT times rather than the GMT times Saturday, Aug 2 0930 EDT 1330 GMT 1400 EDT 1800 GMT 1800 EDT 2200 GMT 2200 EDT 0200 GMT Sunday, Aug 3 0930 EDT 1330 GMT 1400 EDT 1800 GMT 1800 EDT 2200 GMT These are target times, and I cannot promise that we will have people from LogFest on at each of them Specifically, we have often been 15 minutes late because when things get lively here people pay little attention to time. We have has the most success at the early and late hours, because Nick Nicholas in Australia, who is the most fluent user of the language is most likely to be on at those times. Incidentallym since the poster who asked in in the UK, I want to note that the UK has a significantly higher density of people who aretrying to speak the language and are willing to get together with others for such conversation. We have not had many of the newer Lojbanists register their addresses and phone numbers with us, but if you do, I can try to help you locate others who are so interested (but only AFTER LogFest will I have time so don't expect a speedy answer %^). If you are interested in particular in one or more of the above times, it would be helpful to let me know so that I put a higher priority on trying to get people here to be online. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"