From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:54:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 24005 invoked from network); 3 Aug 1997 22:15:00 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 3 Aug 1997 22:15:00 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.E1E6707C@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 0:14:48 +0100 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:13:31 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: LogFest ends X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 2374 Lines: 45 Message-ID: LogFest has ended, al little earlier than usual, as everyone left before rather than fater dinner, due to various trnasportation and family needs. Much was discussed, and much was decided. I will take a little time to describe everything in a couple of days, but here are some brief notes. 1) Dave Barton has become a member of the Board of Directors and has taken oin the responsibility to help me get our order fulfillment and general services to our customers out of the deep freeze. I think you who have 3waited too long will see some rapid imporvement. he will also be taking charge of order fulfillment for the upcoming books, which means that thaey will get out the door. 2) The likely price of the book will be a cover price of US$48. But we will accept direct orders for the first few months of publication for US$39, and pre-publication orders will cost $35. WE ARE NOT YET TAKING SUCH ORDERS, but will do so within a couple of weeks, when Dave knows how he wants things to work. 3) The next book likely to actually see print will not be the long dictionary, but a pocket dictionary similar to one that we made up ad hoc here, and which Nora and I have used for the last few years. The advantage is that such a book will be much cheaoper to piublish and sell, and thus we will not be stretching ourselves financially before putting it out. A pocket dictionary will also be more useful to people actually trying to use the language in coversation than a larger tome because of portability. More details as we know them, but don;t be surprised if this is out within a very few months. 4) Many ideas surfaced for getting more people to use Lojban now that we will have a book out. Expect to see more volume and more Lojban on Lojban List. Again, more details later. My complimets to the several people who showed up for IRC sessions, including people from Sweden, Belgium, UK, Argentina, Australia, and the USA (and perhaps others). That's all for now. I need some rest. 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/"