[lojban] Re: Second Life

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

I was a founding member of the Lojban Second Life community.
Currently, I no longer have a computer good enough to run Second Life,
which is why I don't go there anymore. Plus I learned Blender and
found out it's not that much more complex than Second Life's building
features.

-Eppcott

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/7/08, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>
>
> The active forums now that I know of are IRC, these mailing lists,
> Wikipedia and Jbotcan.  Everything else is ignored at the moment, as far as
> I know.  Jbopre seem to have a collective feeling that it's better to
> concentrate the community in as few places as possible, leading to a
> conservative attitude to any new forum.  New IRC channels often arouse
> criticism for spreading the IRC conversation too thin, and even Jbotcan
> faced a lot of skepticism at first.  So the negative side of that is that
> you won't find Lojban active in a huge variety of different places around
> the net, but the positive side is that you can visit IRC and encounter a
> Lojbanist at any time of the day or night because that's where everyone
> goes.
>
> One idea I had for how to spread Lojban conversation to more places at once
> is to start forums focused on particular topics.  Lojban seems to me like
> it's at the point where we can use it to communicate actual information
> about various subjects, instead of just gathering around the language and
> poking at it.  I bet it would be more effective inviting Lojbanists to a
> chat on Second Life (for example) if it was a meeting for some particular
> purpose.  People are already fulfilling their generic desire to speak with
> other people in Lojban, so they're probably not going to bother with
> exploring somewhere they're less familiar with, just to have conversations
> in Lojban with other Lojbanists they already know!
>
>  mu'o mi'e se ckiku
>
>


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