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-Robin
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:41:50AM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> Not before time, the BPFK is hereby open for business.
>
> There are two fora where BPFK work will be done. One is the TWiki
> (http://www.lojban.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/BPFK/WebHome); the other
> is the phpbb discussion forum (http://www.lojban.org/phpbb/).
>
> In executive summary: I have divided up the cmavo of Lojban into
> paradigms. One person (the "shepherd") will take on the job of
> documenting everything there is to document about the paradigm (or
> administer delegating it), and writes their findings, and proposed
> definitions, on the Twiki. The same will happen for any broader
> grammatical issues. The debate (in formal, point-counterpoint terms)
> happens on the phpbb. There are polls conducted on the issues, back
> on the Twiki, until consensus is reached. If two or more commission
> members reject a proposal, the shepherd needs to water the proposal
> down until it is broadly accepted.
>
> I have written a monsterpiece guidelines on how I want business
> transacted on the BPFK on
> http://www.lojban.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/BPFK/GuidelinesForUsing .
> It's scary and complicated, and Robin has summarised it; but do read
> it anyway. This supplements my previous statements on the BPFK,and
> the Board's.
>
> Any further discussion on the BPFK, including meta-discussion,
> belongs on the phpbb board -- in particular, in the forum "Varia:
> Administrative Issues". The board is open for viewing *and* posting
> by all members of the community. Votes in the polls are only open to
> commission members, however.
>
> All commission members, please register as users on both the phpbb
> and the Twiki.
>
> If you are a commission member (or self-nominated observer) and did
> not get this through the bpfk-announce list, please let me know.
>
> Two side issues. One: there shall be a Morphology Commission to
> oversee work on the morphology. It shall be chaired by Nora
> LeChevalier, and in the first instance will also have Lionel Vidal
> and Pierre Abbat as members. Nora will not begin work on the
> commission until she has discharged her duties as secretary of the
> LLG; but relax: we're not going anywhere.
>
> Two: those of you who had a hankering for translating Google into
> Lojban --- there's a new project if you want it: phpbb can be
> translated into Lojban too. See
> http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=41 if you're
> interested (and serious!) And if you're a commission member: don't
> even think of volunteering. You'll be busy enough keeping up with
> the commision work.
>
> This will be tough, and may Jeeg and Talen have mercy on us all.
>
> mi'e nitcion noi jatna bypyfyky.
> --
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> * Dr Nick Nicholas, French & Italian Studies nickn@unimelb.edu.au *
> Rm 637 Arts Centre, Melbourne University, Australia www.opoudjis.net
> * "Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of locutional rendering, the *
> circumscriptional appelations are excised." --- W. Mann & S. Thompson,
> * _Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organisation_, 1987. *
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