At 08:54 PM 7/24/02 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:28:12PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > I think that anything that is official needs to have been reviewed > heavily by SOMEONE, preferably more than one "someones", who have > established credibility for technical knowledge of the language. Purely out of curiosity, I'm curious if I count, both in your eyes and others'. I like to think I'm pretty good with lojban, but 'technical knowledge'? I dunno.
I have to honestly say that I have read so little of the technical discussions in the last year that I have no opinion of my own, and I have no idea what others opinion of your technical judgement is, which is what really matters.
I generally have tried to avoid rating people myself because politically, any judgments I make of someone that are lower than they think of themselves as being could cost me their work on the project. I would rather view the consensus of others. The only exception for me is that writing in Lojban, such that others respond and answer back in Lojban, shows a minimum communication competence. Anyone who can maintain a conversation with xod or xorxes therefore has proven themselves to be above the beginner level.
> On the other hand, it mattered a lot to Hartmut to have "official" > support for his efforts to get Lojban used in the European Patent > Office, even though LLG with its American-heavy membership would seem > to have little reason to be listened to by the EPO. See!? That's what I've been saying: official approval costs you nothing, and it makes people happy.
I think he wants more than verbal approval though. For him, official support would be a promotional page on our web site with links to his, official priority given to developing a sample patent text in Lojban to demonstrate its practicality. In short, people seem to think "official" means that we (and in practice >I<) will be actively supporting the effort.
-- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org