[lojban] Re: Second Life

["Cyril Slobin" <cyril@slobin.pp.ru>]

On 10/8/08, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:

> > As for Lojban having a group, it appears to me that the Loglan
> > conversation group is active and the Lojban group is not: we have
> > attracted one of their members, who is planning to join our meeting
> > next weekend.
>
> I believe he was talking specifically about a Lojban group on "Second
> Life", but he might have been making a more general statement.
>
> I would like to respond (and to do so accurately). Can people
> summarize the various opportunities for Lojban conversation on line, > via text and/or voice.  And specifically what is the status of using > Second Life for Lojban conversation among the various options.  How
> many are involved, and how often?

It is me who was attracted to join their meeting in Second Life, so I
probably should to tell more about Second Life conlangs presence:

1) "Loglan Conversation Group" includes six people now (counting
myself). As far as I know, two or three of them do really meet once a
week for a hour (typically Sat or Sun). For some silly circumstances I
have failed to attend last two meetings, so I'll try to join them at
the next weekend. ("Last two" because I have learned about this group
two weeks ago only).

2) "Lojban Institute of SL" group includes about 30 people now
("about" because SL interface doesn't show totals; I have counted them
one by one, and small error is possible). But it seems like most of
them have visited Second Life a year ago or more. This is typical:
someone joins the world, plays month or two, and leaves forever, not
deleting his/her account. In particular, the founder of the group has
his/her last visit in January 2007. I do not know who s/he is in real
life, because this is not obvious from SL nicknames. And, if someone
with nickname "xorxes" *is* xorxes (xorxes, are you?), then his last
visit was in 2006.

3) During my four months in SL (I have joined the world in the end of
March this year) I have noted no activity in Lojban group. More than,
when I myself asked in the group chat if anyone is interested in some
collective project, the only person answered was loglanist (who is a
member of the Lojban group too). Two or three other people seemed to
be online, but was probably not interested. See also:
http://jbotcan.org/ideas/res/68.html

4) For comparison, Esperanto people are really active in SL, and there
are many of them. If you want to meet someone who speak Esperanto, you
do not need to arrange a date and time: if you just come to popular
among Esperantists meeting place and wait for a while, you probably
meet someone else who came there with the same idea in mind.

BTW, about Esperanto: we are building an Esperanto Library in SL now.
Do we have any Esperanto papers about Lojban, except long ago outdated
brochure?

Sorry for my terrible English today, I am a bit ill now, and therefore
speak in a tangled way even in my native Russian.

-- 
http://slobin.pp.ru/ `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
<cyril@slobin.pp.ru> `it means just what I choose it to mean'


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