[lojban-beginners] Re: New Beginner

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:00 PM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> > Am I wrong?  Or maybe it's just there on the tiki waiting for others to join
>> in
>> > the translation effort.
>> > mu'o mi'e andrus
>>
>> You're partially right in that I haven't worked on it for years, but
>> partially wrong in that others have worked on it from time to time
>> since then.
> So why is it listed on the Texts in Lojban page?  From what I can see, the last
> translatioln effort was Chapter 4 done in February, 2007.

Why not list it anyway? It's a text in Lojban.

> There is nothing on the
> page warning the reader that some of the texts are unfinished (or barely started) and
> nothing inviting lojbanists to continue the work.

Register for the site and put one there.

> In any case, why did the community
> lose interest?  Is it something about The Prophet itself?
> While we are on the subject of unfinished projects, whatever happened to the course
> on spoken Lojban?  I haven't been able to find anything on it lately.

It's nothing intrinsic to The Prophet. The same reason we lose
interest in anything; we get distracted and aren't very dedicated. I
have paid no attention to Lojban for several months while I've been
the chair of Penguicon 2009. I told the Board in December that I'm not
going to do anything until May 2009 when I'm done with Penguicon. The
bottom line is, we all stop work whenever we're busy working on
something else.

-Eppcott