Re: 2011 jbonunsla planning (was Re: [lojban] Semantic Representation of Lojban)

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

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:00:00PM -0700, .alyn.post. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:48:13PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Suggestions as to time, and in particular whether it should be
> > conjoined with an SF convention or just a bunch of Lojbanists in
> > a room together, would be very welcome.
> > 
> > I have a mild preference for the latter, but it gets draining
> > after a while.
> 
> Being away from my home over May Day is a huge compromise for me,
> so I have not done it in years past.  I've gotten to the point
> where I'm *willing* to do so, but if I had anything like a choice,
> I'd pick any other weekend.  

I have no attachment to that weekend whatsoever.

> If I have a real for actual choice of weekends, I'll send you my
> ordered choices.

Sure, you and others should feel free to do that.

> My preference would be to meet specifically for Lojban, I'm not
> interested in a SF/other convention going on, save as a means for
> getting people into the Lojban room.
> 
> As to format, I would love to see an unconference/open space/agile
> format.  

Well, we're talking about less than 12 people, so it tends to be
pretty loose.  Generally we just get together in a room and do
whatever we feel like.  :)

I'd like to have may be a *bit* more structure.

> It is something I understand and am engaged by, but I caveat that
> I have a specific stack of things I'm interested in talking about,
> and that format would allow me a platform for doing so.
> 
> Reviewing the memory of my notes (alas, they aren't in front of
> me) conference planning suggest we'd need at least two rooms, a
> break room with food/water and misc discussion/checking out and a
> topic room for focused and engaged conversation constrained by a
> timebox.
> 
> I don't have a sense for the minimum number of people needed to
> make something like this effective, but my sense is that as we
> approach or cross that lower bound having an SF convention around
> us would allow a release for the kind of drain a small participant
> count would incur.  Which means, Lojbanistan, that I need you to
> come to jbonunsla and save me from that fate!

You seem to know more about this than I do.  Perhaps *you* should
organize it.  :)

FWIW, the reason I was talking about the SF Bay Area is that we have
4 of us in easy proximity.  Given the number of people we're talking
about, that's pretty overwhelmingly compelling; I'm aware of no
other part of the world with that many.

-Robin

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