History: Logfest 2005

Source of version: 4 (current)

The Logical Language Group made a last-minute announcement of Logfest 2005. The Philadelphia science fiction convention [http://www.philcon.org/2005/|Philcon] set aside a room in which to hold the intermittently-recurring celebration of the Lojban language, December 9 through 11, 2005. In attendance were: ((Robin Lee Powell)); camgusmis ((Matt Arnold)); epkat ((Mark Shoulson)); clsn ((Stephen Weeks)); tenes ((Adam Cooper)); komfo,amonan ((Bob LeChevalier)); lojbab ((Nora LeChevalier)) A lot of recordings were made for the ((Lojban podcast)), jbocradi. Lojban's main currently-active organizer, ((Robin Lee Powell)), endured many trials and tribulations making it to Logfest, which he told us entirely in Lojban for about 45 minutes. This is serialized in the podcast. We played ((Logfest 2005 : Nanofictionary texts|Nanofictionary)). ((Matt Arnold)) used Lojban to describe how to play the games of [http://www.naviadratp.com|Navia Dratp] and [http://www.mindsports.net/Arena/Emergo/AboutEmergo.html|Emergo]. We put a whiteboard on a chair on the table and ((Mark Shoulson)) taught Philcon attendees in two beginner's classes. There occurred the historic meeting between Bob LeChevalier and [http://www.klingonguy.com/|Lawrence Schoen], the Director of the [http://www.kli.org/|KLI], with general friendliness and conviviality, somewhat to the surprise or even disappointment (apparently) of some of the onlooking fans. Also present was ((Keith Lynch)), former Lojban supporter, though he did not participate in the LogFest.