Re: [lojban] Smart.fm going on subscription model.

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

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:24:46AM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:36:40AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:15:21PM -0800, Ali Sajid Imami wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Now that smart.fm is going on a subscription model, what
> > > > alternative would we have for that?
> > >
> > > Anki is the big one, but like Lindar I also liked the multiple
> > > choice aspect of smart.fm, which others do not have.
> >
> 
> Is it possible to do multiple-choice in Anki? 

No: http://ankisrs.net/docs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.html#_can_i_do_multiple_choice_questions

> is there anything available now that is similar we could use?

I am not aware of anything else that is multiple-choice based.

> > > It might be worth us (and others) working on a new one; it
> > > could hardly be written any *worse* than smart.fm was.
> > > Someone has started a proto-community around this at
> > > http://twitter.com/openlanglearn
> 
> By this, do you mean the Smart.fm code, or the Lojban lessons? I'm very much
> hoping you mean the code, btw. :)

Neither; the idea of making a free smart.fm clone.  We don't have
the smart.fm code, nor any right to it.

-Robin

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