From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Dec 23 17:28:47 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 24 Dec 2000 01:28:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 16898 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2000 01:28:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Dec 2000 01:28:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta1 with SMTP; 24 Dec 2000 01:28:47 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (ppp19.net-A.cais.net [205.252.61.19]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBO1Sju53981 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:28:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001223201634.00b6fa00@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:29:43 -0500 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: "Nickfest" concludes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group I am pleased to report the completion of "Nickfest", a 2 day visit from Nick Nicholas in which he lived up to his history of unbelievable productivity, and also had time to do some local sightseeing. Most noteworthy, Nick has jump-started several lagging efforts. He has committed to assembling and editing a new "Introduction to Lojban" book that will supplant our level 0 package for new people. He helped us work on identifying other publications that will comprise our packages until replaced by published books (level 1 which will become the dictionary, and level 3 which will become the textbook). Nora, Nick and I went through 600 odd words of the lujvo list for keyword identification, and he took most of the rest of the list with him to work on during his Christmas vacation. Within the next week, I will put up what we have done on either the web page or the egroups site so others can see what I have been trying to get people to do as the first step in preparing the words for the dictionary. As a side note, Nick indicated to I have been wrong in claiming that he is the only demonstratedly fluent Lojban speaker, nor indeed was he the first. He says that Goran Topic was more fluent than he was when they met on Nick's visit to Europe a few years ago. We didn't talk a lot of Lojban, nor did we get a lot of sleep. But it was a great visit and a lot of fun, with a promise of more great things to follow. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org