Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:52:27PM +0000, Minimiscience wrote:
> de'i li 08 pi'e 04 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Robin Lee Powell .fy. cusku
> zoi skamyxatra.
> > That's *ALWAYS* been the case.  I've *begged* people to join the
> > BPFK.  Begged and begged and begged and begged.  I always get
> > utter silence.
>
> .skamyxatra
> 
> Really?  I've never encountered any of these requests.  Maybe I
> should go on IRC more.  

It may be a timing thing; I think it's been 4 or more years since
the last one.  I meant posts to the main list, though.

> Besides, I thought that in order to join the BPFK you had to be a
> member of the LLG, which required "competence" in one of several
> specific fields.

Nope, and we've never enforced thet competence thing anyways.

> Anyway, to get the ball rolling, I suppose I'll request
> membership.  My qualifications are:
>
>  - borderline autistic, obsessive-compulsive, pedantic undergraduate majoring
>    in computational mathematics
>  - currently working on Haskell/Perl/C libraries for manipulating Lojban words
>    & text: <http://github.com/jwodder/jbobaf>
>  - deep-seated & irrational dislike of cultural {gismu} and the tiki
>  - knowledge of mathematical operators beyond just the high-school level stuff
>    in VUhU
>  - desire to rewrite the entire language specification in a highly formal &
>    precise manner modeled after the ISO C99 standard.  I started this once but
>    never got past the morphology section.
>  - desire to rewrite the official {gismu} & {cmavo} lists *without* the
>    arbitrary 100-ish-character limit on the definition fields (Have you ever
>    heard of tab-separated values?), merging in definition fragments that were
>    relegated to the notes fields and generally making everything more
>    consistent, formal, and normative.  I once tried this as part of an attempt
>    at typesetting a decent dictionary (first with XML, then with JSON) but
>    never got very far.
>  - desire to usurp control of the BPFK and LLG as part of my over-arching goal
>    of world domination.  Time permitting, of course.

Sounds fine to me.  I'm about to restart the BPFK list; I'll post
where to go at that time.

As a side comment, the cmavo and gismu lists largely predate the
concept of TSV files; they're from a time when COBOL was a major
language.

> So, do you send me a funny hat, or do I have to make my own?

You have to make your own.

-Robin

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