[lojban] Nick will be with you shortly

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

1. I've been sidetracked in many different directions this past couple  
of months, and this more or less will continue through this week. (I'm  
currently proofreading the second proofs of my mundane book.) Expect me  
to reemerge here next week.

2. Infrastructure for BPFK is now mostly in place, and waiting for me  
to get time to look over it (kudos &c to Robin, He Who Gets Things  
Done), and flick the switch.

3. Still have no firm commitment on collectors of corpora; I'll renew  
the call next week.

4. November through January were full time jboske for me; the issue of  
what to do with gadri is so unsettled in existing Lojban, and so  
pressing in my view for the language, that I was willing to stake my  
future involvement in Lojban on it. I don't  yet have a formal solution  
reconciling the requirements brought up on jboske with standard Lojban;  
but I know enough of what it will look like that I feel I can resume  
work on Lojban in good conscience.

As BPFKJ ("Rexfelis"), I will not compel anyone to read jboske; it is  
hard, and hard for a reason. I also am well aware that jboske is not  
the forum where any issues shall be decided. But I'm notifying BPFK  
members here that proposals *will* come to the BPFK from jboske; that  
the jboske participants are thinking thoroughly about issues of import  
to the language definition; and while they will not always have my  
agreement (to the extent that I am distinct from them), they have my  
respect. I reject any claim, therefore, that issues to be brought up to  
the BPFK should not also be discussed on jboske. If you don't want to  
follow jboske discussions, you'll get your chance to evaluate any  
proposals when they're ready for the BPFK forum. The decisions will be  
taken there, not in jboske; and that is a statement I will be held to.

But I remind you that the BPFK fora are not intended for open-ended,  
drawn out discussion of these issues. That is, in fact, what jboske is  
for. (jboske is *not* the exclusive forum of schismatics, or  
Academians, or whatever the bogeyman of the day is.)

And trust me. The issue of what {loi} means was impossible enough to  
follow with 3 people participating. Throwing it open on the BPFK forum  
in December, for 13 people, would have been a sure way to destroy the  
BPFK. The BPFK will start up slow, working on tractable issues, and  
gradually build its way up.

OK, more next week.

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Dr Nick Nicholas, French & Italian,      nickn@unimelb.edu.au
Melbourne Uni,, Australia                http://www.opoudjis.net
"Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be this
  nation's number one killer."    --- Henry Gibson, Kentucky Fried Movie.
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