From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Feb 23 10:53:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 59692 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2005 18:53:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Feb 2005 18:53:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2005 18:53:44 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D41dn-0007z8-HN for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:53:43 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D41dT-0007yJ-LE; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:53:23 -0800 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 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 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 X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Presentation, visual aid grammar diagrams X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23885 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/