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Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.
Luke Bergen wrote:
From my perspective, Bob, one really significant change comes from the
first bullet point:
The BPFK should be open to anyone who is seriously working on learning
the language
That proposal alone seems like it could have a huge effect on the
potential future success of the BPFK. I can think of a few people off
the top of my head who are extremely interested in lojban and seem to
have some good ideas about it that aren't on the BPFK official.
Please correct me if I'm wrong Robin, but I think one of your hopes for
this proposal is that the community actually take more of an active role
in defining the language. Where "community" does NOT mean "noobs who
come to the list and complain that x, y, and z don't make sense" but
rather "people who know the language and have real ideas about how to
improve/fix it".
As byfy jatna, Robin has complete authority to add to, or subtract from,
the membership of byfy based on whatever parameters he chooses. He
could in theory be overridden by the Board or the membership if he did
something abusive of this power. But adding more people who know the
language isn't likely to ever be one of them.
It is the "improve/fix it" that doesn't yet belong. The byfy should be
completing the documentation of the status quo, and THEN can consider
fixes or improvements which are NECESSARY for the language to succeed.
Then, after the documentation is done and the baseline is declared,
discussion of possible changes by anyone who knows the language well
enough to discuss their ideas in Lojban is fair game, with the rules
forbidding any official decision to make a change for at least 5 years
(what people decide or agree to do before then is "letting usage decide").
lojbab
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