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From: "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org>
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Subject: Re: [Llg-members] New Business: other topics
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Following are the four topics that have been mentioned for consideration 
under New Business.  Ali has been most patient for a few months waiting 
for us to return to his proposal, so we should probably discuss it 
first.  Otherwise, I leave it to the membership as to which should be 
discussed.

On 3/12/2015 8:40 PM, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG wrote:
> 1) Ali's project manager proposal, which should probably be
> re-introduced as a motion for discussion when I call for it.

Ali?

> 2) Last Sunday, gleki, Ilmen and I, with apparently selpa'i listening
> only, had a patched Skype conversation with a Brian Wernham of a company
> called NooLearn in the UK, and his assistant.  They are interested in
> alpha-testing of their software system with a group of Lojbanists, which
> will hopefully create some sort of on-line Lojban courseware (MOOC
> platform (MOOC = Massive Open Online Course)), which would be made
> available to us (and others) under a Creative Commons license.  The
> alpha-test would probably involve getting some number of Lojbanists
> together in one place for a half-day closed-room effort at testing/using
> the system, and I think there will be additional online testing that
> people can help asynchronously.
>
> One suggestion was to have this take place as part of LogFest, which I
> understand Pierre is putting together for July either in New York or
> possibly at my place here in Washington DC (or perhaps at a nearby
> hotel, which might be necessary in order to support their test).  I
> believe that the organization would be paying for any special needs, and
> might be willing to assist a few people in getting to the test location.
>   Another possibility would be to get European Lojbanists together in
> some single locale for the testing.
>
> So in New Business, we will discuss whether the membership wishes LLG to
> support this effort, and whether LogFest is the best time for getting
> together (or whether this might too-seriously disrupt the ability for
> other activities).   I believe I have a little more information, but we
> may have to ask the nooLearn group some questions.

I suggest that gleki initiate this topic, possibly reposting the link 
Brian sent us.

3) gleki wrote:
> What are the planned actions of the members on producing better textbooks and dictionaries?

4) guskant wrote:
> I posted a message on the topic "2014 Annual Meeting - Breaking
> isolation between communities" in December. I suggested in the message
> creating a periodical (annual or more frequent) to connect isolated
> communities of Lojban to each other. Articles from various communities
> of Lojban should be inserted in an issue. I suggest each article is
> bilingual of Lojban and a main Language of the community. The format
> should be at least html, pdf, epub and mobi. The website of
> publication should _not_ be on Google, because PRC blocks most sites
> of Google.
>
> We will need to make call for contribution in every possible community.
> La gleki can make contact with communities in Russia.
> I can do it with communities in PRC and those in Japan.
> A community in HongKong/Taiwan is very open to the rest of the world,
> and everyone has access to it.
> Possibly there are communities in Pakistan. Besides Ali, I have a
> Pakistani friend who learns Lojban.
> Moreover, I recently found someone speaks on Lojban in Arabic, and
> there might be going to be born an Arabic speakers' community in near
> future:
> https://youtu.be/kBr6U0U4XYQ

lojbab


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