From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Jul 30 19:56:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 31 Jul 2001 02:56:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 34116 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2001 02:56:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Jul 2001 02:56:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 02:56:08 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (209-8-89-103.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.103]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6V2u6o36360 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010730221611.00b10c00@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:54:17 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group LogFest concluded with the departure of Nick Nicholas at 830 this evening. Unlike previous years, we already have draft minutes of the meeting, which I hope to post within a few days to members, and perhaps to the list (they will eventually go on the Lojban web page). Last year, several new voting members were added by invitation, but we were slow about actually issuing the invitations. 3 members were added from among the attendees (Ethan Fremen, Jake Berglund, and David Crowell who attended again this year), and 5 by invitation, all of whom accepted this month and attended by proxy: (Ivan Derzhanski, Arnt Johansen, And Rosta, Robin Turner and Yevgueni Sklyanin). This year Xod and Robin Powell were added as voting members. Colin Fine sent in his resignation as a voting member because he felt that he could not give due diligence to LLG affairs, but this resignation was not received before the meeting due to my computer failure). The Board of Directors and officers for LLG for the next year is: Bob LeChevalier President John Cowan Vice President Nora LeChevalier Secretary/Treasurer Shawn Lasseter John Clifford (pc) Nick Nicholas LogFest 2002 has had a preliminary date set for the last weekend of July in 2002 - no one actually looked up the date, which we intend to confirm before the end of the year so that people can better plan ahead who wish to attend. Total attendance at LogFest was a little smaller this year than last year, with Robin Powell the only person who had never attended before. As I've noted already, the high point was xod's successful display of Lojban's capabilities by participating in the entire LogFest weekend speaking only Lojban. Much attention was given to Nick's books and other net based activity, although highest priority was set on making current our snail mailing list data base, and resuming communications with Lojbanists who are not in contact with us through Lojban List, many of whom may not be on the net at all. Resuming publication of our newsletter and journal should follow shortly thereafter. A plan now exists to start documenting discussions of issues on the net in a more formal fashion, and recording these on the web. The concept is based on pc's "RECORD" messages of prior years, but will be more formalized, and have content similar to what John Cowan used in documenting change proposals to the grammar before baselining. Issues will be resolved using the baseline language where possible, but when appropriate, changes which might be considered if the baseline freeze ended, including experimental cmavo, will be listed in a separate section (without approval). RECORDS would probably be published in Ju'i Lobypli if appropriate. There will be an Lojban announcements-only mailing list for people who don't find time to read the full list traffic and therefore miss messages. We will try to have Lojban List subscribed as a list to this new list, so that announcements go automatically to list members without you having to sign up twice. But if you don't read most of Lojban List and want to make sure you see the announcements, you might subscribe separately when it is set up. Robin Powell will also be setting up a mailing list for voting members of LLG who are online, separate from other lists, so that members can communicate on organizational issues without having to have me as a bottleneck. lojban.org will be moved to Robin's machine where we will have more space, and will eliminate the high cost of our current web hosting. Robin being more capable at this sort of thing than I am, will also be working on improvements to the main web site, and ideas and requests for such improvements are now in order for discussion on Lojban List. lojban.com has also been purchased and donated to us, and will be linked to the main web page. One thing that will definitely be added is a page supporting efforts at having Lojban adopted as an inter-language for the European patent system, which support has been approved at two annual meetings but never publicized. 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