What's New?

10 Mar 2010

Students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have started a Lojban Society. Hosting weekly meetings in a local pub, the group has 12 members after its first month. The group is to provide a social environment for people sharing an interest in Lojban and, in the future, act as a resource for Lojban-related projects at the University. Certainly repeatable at any university (or anywhere for that matter!). To find out more, contact lojban@st-andrews.ac.uk.

2 Mar 2010

"Where are your Keys?" is a language fluency game that rapidly builds fluency in a language by making the techniques used to teach language transparent to the student so they can be used for self-directed learning. A "Where are your Keys?" website focused specifically toward learning Lojban is now online: "lo do ckiku ma zvati". Come and play "lo do ckiku ma zvati!" Contact Alan Post for more information.

19 Feb 2010

An invitation has been made by an author on The Sporum, the official Spore forum, for a discussion about Lojban. If you have an opinion to share with others, go for it! Spore is a popular multi-genre single-player metaverse god game published by Electronic Arts. The forum has a Science and Spore section for participants who are science buffs.

3 Feb 2010

Work has started on making Smart.fm available to students of Lojban vocabulary. At its core, Smart.fm is an adaptive flashcard learning tool but with audio and advanced tracking features. A review can be found here. Beginners will find learning lojban vocabulary using Smart.fm fun and fast! If you already have a basic knowledge of lojban pronunciation and know how gismu work, and would like to contribute to this project, contact Jon "Top Hat" Jones.

5 Jan 2010

Today, BBC Radio 4 aired another episode of its Word of Mouth program. Lojban was discussed along with Esperanto, Láadan and Klingon. To listen to it, download BBC program on constructed languages.

30 Nov 2009

The Complete Lojban Language by John Woldemar Cowan is now available to buy from Amazon.com, and just in time for the holiday season. Treat yourself or someone special!

1 Aug 2009

jbotcan, the lojbanic channel, is back up. It features anonymous imageboards, an rss feed that collects news from all over and more goodies! Be sure to check it out!

14 May 2007

Today, Timo and Cizra released their animation short lai citno melbi pinpedi. You can watch it on Google Video now! If that title sounds familiar, you may have seen this comic strip before.

In other news, the same Timo has been busy creating Jbobac, a Lojbanic audio board that anyone can post to. Just point your browser to http://jbobac.lojban.org/, and join the action!

1 December 2006

Welcome, xkcd readers! Join some Lojbanic Forums. The Lojban-speaking community loves xkcd, so getting xkcd'ed is as good as getting Slashdotted, Dugg or Farked. The author of xkcd is expressing a sentiment similar to Groucho Marx's statement, "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." We can definitely laugh at ourselves, and exposure to xkcd's target audience (math, linguistics, and sarcasm) will probably result in at least one more participant in our hobby.

27 October 2006

Today I'm going to send in the Lojban group registration for Philcon. Email me your name and address and PayPal your registration now. I mean right now!

20 October 2006

Only one week left to get in on the Lojban group's discount rate to register for Philcon in Philadelphia, the science fiction convention where the annual Lojban Festival will be held on November 17 through 19. See jbonunsla 2006 for details, including our stellar Lojbanic guest list and schedule of events. We now have two rooms to put you up in if your expenses are tight. You can still register after we send in the group registration, but it will cost more. It might be the most fun Lojbanic meeting ever. I'm serious, now is the time to get in on this! -Eppcott

03 October 2006

The Lojban community blog on Livejournal is now embedded on the Lojban homepage, as part of the plan discussed in Friday's entry. Prepare for a digest of all the Lojbanic goodness the web has to offer! You don't have to have a Livejournal account to subscribe to the web feed. You do need an LJ account to post, but if you don't want to get an LJ account you can just send your contribution to Matt Arnold who will post it to the blog for you.

12 September 2006

Lojban was mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal, "How Hartmut Pilch, Avid Computer Geek, Bested Microsoft", by Mary Jacoby. The free sample text made available online reads as follows:

28 August 2006

The next Lojban Fest for 2006 will be held at Philcon in Philadelphia, November 17 through 19, 2006. Check out the page jbonunsla 2006 for the schedule and attendees so far, as well as registration details. Newcomers are especially welcome to join us! Keep checking the schedule as we continue to work with the Klingon Language Institute about the possibility of collaborative content between Lojban and Klingon at Philcon!

20 July 2006

Have you visited the land where Lojban is spoken? It's called samxarmuj, meaning "computerized imaginary universe". It's a text-based world on the internet, where you can operate a character using commands in either English or Lojban: the online software is bilingual. Lojban is like the language of magic in samxarmuj--speaking it can bring objects into existence and give them form and function.

You don't even need a plane ticket. Just click here and use the password "moo" to log in as a guest until you have your own account. Commands are typed in the bottom-most part of the window. Guest accounts are limited to using English, so type the "register" command to get your own account. It's totally free.

More information, including other ways to access samxarmuj, is available at the wiki page about The Lojban MOO.

Intense labor on the part of many skilled programmers in our community has brought forth one of the most exciting venues in which to use Lojban that this language has ever had. Today, the software leaves Beta. It is with bated breath that we launch this massively multiplayer system and declare it ready for the public. But now we need to massively populate it.

We are currently summoning new mages of every skill level. Come build your own part of the land. Although you do not have to speak Lojban to adventure in the land as it forms out of the nothingness around us, all spells must be cast in correct Lojban. Whatever power hears our descriptions of samxarmuj, and turns them into reality, will respond to no other language.

This land also welcome tourists with no skill in Lojban at all. Feel free to ask us any question about how to use the system. With enough interest, we may even be able to establish the Lojbanic equivalent of a Hogwarts academy for novice Lojban magicians! Who knows? Welcome to samxarmuj! Go native!

4 May 2006

jbonunsla 2006 was held at Penguicon in Michigan, April 21-23 2006. Next up for jbonunsla 2006 will be Philcon 2006 in November!

24 Mar 2006

jbonunsla 2006, a celebration of the Logical Language, will be held at the science fiction convention and open source software expo Penguicon in Michigan, April 21-23 2006. This does not exclude others hosting LogFests of their own in 2006.

4 Jan 2006

Logfest was held at PhilCon in Philadelphia from December 9th to December 11th. It was a quite successful event, despite a turnout that was a bit lower than expected. More details in the page about Logfest 2005.

13 Nov 2005

As the Secretary, I apologize for the lateness of this announcement, but I only got full confirmation 10 days ago myself.

Philcon - The Philadelphia Conference of Science Fiction and Fantasy has agreed to have a room set aside for LogFest 2005!

Philcon 2005 is being held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on December 9th-11th, 2005. That's IN 26 DAYS!

I know that's really, really short notice, but if we can get enough people to show up, they'll do it for us next year too, and hopefully that relationship will continue far into the future.

People showing up for LogFest will have to buy PhilCon memberships. Please let me know if that, or any other aspect of these arrangements, provides an unacceptable financial burden to you. I, and others, are willing to help put up some money for active Lojbanists who want to come.

We don't know how big the room is going to be yet, but I've told them we expect about 10 people.

5 Sep 2005

Complete site overhaul! Most of the lojban.org content has been moved from a set of static HTML pages to a TikiWiki content management system. The number of changes caused by this are too long to list. In addition, the LLG 2004 Annual Meeting Minutes have been posted.

2 May 2004

A variety of minor bug fixes were done on the site, as well as some more major items. The front page was returned to CSS, XHTML and Bobby Level 3 compliance. The problem with clicking on one of the maps causing the maps to stop functioning was fixed. A couple of one-sheet brochures were added to the brochures page. The 25 November 2002 Board Meeting minutes were added. The 2003 annual meeting minutes were added.

10 September 2003

What is Lojban? is now available for purchase! The lojban.org site is now available, at least partially, in a variety of different languages. The vast majority of the site has been marked up in a way to make easy translation possible, but not all of the actual translation has been done. If you want to help, please contact the webmaster. Also, there is now a web-based IRC client available on the Forums page. The French and Spanish Lojban lists are now available. A Lojbanic translation program has been installed.

11 May 2003

Some bylaw changes from 1992 were incorporated. Split off of Old Projects into a seperate page, many changes (mostly minor) to the projects and committees pages. Markup changes all over the place.

The full changes list can be found at the Aegis change page for change number 144.

7 April 2003

This is the first site update in a long time, and as such it's a big one. The site now has Request Tracker set up, and that is being used to manage necessary changes. The Level 0 book was added to the main site, a Helping Lojban page, a Help page, and a Feedback page were all added, and jbovlaste and Request Tracker were both linked in.

30 December 2002

An IRC logging system has been set up. See the Lojbanic Forums page. Also, many pages have been edited to point to wiki.lojban.org as the official wiki site, which will continue to be the right place even if someone else takes it over.

28 November 2002

The new Official Baseline Statement, from the LLG has been posted.

14 November 2002

Addition to the Official Projects Page, minor fixes and updates.

24 October 2002

A Promotional Materials page has been created. Also, I've made a Community Files Area, which is a TWiki (a web-based colloborative space).

21 October 2002

The Lojban FAQ has been updated and moved and revamped and such. .uisai Thanks go to Dalton Graham for doing most of the work.

23 September 2002

There has been a major revamp of the Resources section. It has a lot more information in it now.

18 September 2002

The old minutes of the LLG have been posted, thanks to Jay Kominek. He also html formatted the bylaws. See the LLG publications page.

The official LLG Projects page has been constructed. Please submit anything you are working on!

An official LLG Committees page has also been added.

An interactive story has been added; see the original lojbanic texts page.

9 August 2002

As may be obvious, I just made some drastic changes to the layout of the site. Please let me (webmaster@lojban.org) know what you think!

23 July 2002

LogFest, the annual gathering of lojbanists, is this coming weekend. Also, the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Members of the LLG will be held on Sunday, July 28th (during LogFest).

The 2002 Annual Meeting of the Members of the LLG will be held at 1030AM EDT on Sunday July 28, 2002 at lojbab's house, 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031 USA. There being insufficient notice as required, no bylaw changes can be considered.

LogFest mostly consists of a bunch of people hanging out at lojbab's house, talking in and about lojban. The annual meeting always occurs during LogFest.

1 July 2002

There was a major (several day) downtime of this site, due to bad RAM, which in turn caused file system corruption. The problem has been solved, and this machine now has a new, larger hard drive, as well as a completely new operating system (NetBSD 1.5.2).

In addition, since the last update this machine has gotten a much faster processor and been moved into a co-location facility with a connection to the internet that is close to 300Mb/s.

2 May 2002

Minor website updates have been made. In particular, the contents of the Learning Lojban sections have been slightly improved, and many relative links have been fixed.

18 April 2002

Amazing news! The first draft of the Alice In Wonderland translation appears to be complete. The only things missing are a couple of the chapter titles and one stanza of a poem, as of this writing. Please go take a look in the Translations section!

Old News

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