From pycyn@aol.com Sat Sep 14 14:28:39 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 14 Sep 2002 21:28:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 73817 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2002 21:28:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Sep 2002 21:28:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m04.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.7) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Sep 2002 21:28:38 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.10.) id r.42.2d5e29fb (3956) for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:28:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42.2d5e29fb.2ab50401@aol.com> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:28:33 EDT Subject: RE: Logfest2003 and beyond. To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_42.2d5e29fb.2ab50401_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 15686 --part1_42.2d5e29fb.2ab50401_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As an only occasional attender to Logfest, let me toss in a few fepni. 1. As I age even more, my body likes less and less sleeping on floors and being stepped on by people dashing to computers, so the idea of being in a h/motel room wiht a bed is appealing. On the other hand, it would probably double the cost of attending (even Motel 66 -- the bottom of the line -- cost $50/night. OK, so add another half to the cost). Not counting transportation to and fro, if some of the activities were still on Beau Lane, and meals (conversely). Feasilbe, but, as Lojbab suggests, I'd as soon give the money to book publishing or such like -- if I am going to use the money for Lojban at all. 2. On the other hand, a hotel could be anywhere and we could get Logfest back to being a floating party, rather than only at "corporate headquarters." 3. The bidness meeting is never my favorite part of Logfest or any other get together. Any plan to move that out onto the net (and, thus, include the absence several in a meaningful way) would get my hearty agreement. If it were Sunday afternoon at Logfest (when are we going to change that to "Lojfest" by the way?), I would be inclined to leave Sunday morning (but for the airline price differential that saves about $100 if I wait til Monday). 4. The original Logfests were held in vqrious places in New England (Jenners' in ME before they moved to the nauga burying ground, somebody else's in Western MA). They were purely social and educational, since there was no bidness to do (this was before the nominal spin-off of TLI from being a DBA for JCB [God, that looks so official] -- so decisions were all top-down). I think that, even without a business meeting (maybe, especially without one), Lojfest would be a thriving event. I know that I come at the list with renewed interest now that I can visualize my interlocutors (though few of my faves, alas -- a small reason for a movable feat, but Argentina or even England seems out of reach. But there was at least one old style Logfest in England and maybe one on the Continent in the late 70's - early 80's). 4. e-mail meeting make the called-for simultaneous translation a much more feasible program. --part1_42.2d5e29fb.2ab50401_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As an only occasional attender to Logfest, let me toss in a few fepni.
1. As I age even more, my body likes less and less sleeping on floors and being stepped on by people dashing to computers, so the idea of being in a h/motel room wiht a bed is appealing. On the other hand, it would probably double the cost of attending (even Motel 66 -- the bottom of the line -- cost $50/night. OK, so add another half to the cost). Not counting transportation to and fro, if some of the activities were still on Beau Lane, and meals (conversely). Feasilbe, but, as Lojbab suggests, I'd as soon give the money to book publishing or such like -- if I am going to use the money for Lojban at all.

2. On the other hand, a hotel could be anywhere and we could get Logfest back to being a floating party, rather than only at "corporate headquarters."

3. The bidness meeting is never my favorite part of Logfest or any other get together. Any plan to move that out onto the net (and, thus, include the absence several in a meaningful way) would get my hearty agreement. If it were Sunday afternoon at Logfest (when are we going to change that to "Lojfest" by the way?), I would be inclined to leave Sunday morning (but for the airline price differential that saves about $100 if I wait til Monday).

4. The original Logfests were held in vqrious places in New England (Jenners' in ME before they moved to the nauga burying ground, somebody else's in Western MA). They were purely social and educational, since there was no bidness to do (this was before the nominal spin-off of TLI from being a DBA for JCB [God, that looks so official] -- so decisions were all top-down). I think that, even without a business meeting (maybe, especially without one), Lojfest would be a thriving event. I know that I come at the list with renewed interest now that I can visualize my interlocutors (though few of my faves, alas -- a small reason for a movable feat, but Argentina or even England seems out of reach. But there was at least one old style Logfest in England and maybe one on the Continent in the late 70's - early 80's).

4. e-mail meeting make the called-for simultaneous translation a much more feasible program. --part1_42.2d5e29fb.2ab50401_boundary--