Lojbanic Phone Group

From Lojban
Revision as of 18:26, 18 March 2014 by Gleki (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
  • Mumble: a vocal chatroom
  • Cinch is an audio-blogging service which allows its users to record directly to the website or phone in to record.

Robin Lee Powell's idea was that people should call each other at mutually convenient times for chats in Lojban.

The overall goal being to establish a broad level of conversational fluency in the lojban community.

The tools to be used are primarily Skype and direct browser-to-browser chats like appear.in.

Skype Phone Group Topics

  • You can arrange a voice call (phone or VoIP) with another Lojban speaker at any skill level.

A lot of people have expressed concern about the phone group with respect to the "well, what would we talk about?" issue. I'm pretty sure that discussions about that will take up a lot of space, so please see the Phone Group Topics page.

Nowadays, Story Time With Uncle Robin is a recurring topic.

How to start voice chats

There is the group in Google+ where you can videochat in real-time with other Lojbanists. Both classes for beginners and advanced learners are planned. Just check out for the last messages on hangouts (the term that denotes videoconversations in Google+).

You can also use http://appear.in for voice chats.

A list of members (seldom updated)

You can also use this list especially if you use Skype. However, it's better to find in IRC chat people willing to voice chat with you.

Name E-Mail Time Skype ID Expertise #lojban Nickname
Robin Lee Powell [email protected] PST rlpowell Expert rlpowell
Ark Balandin GMT + 4 ark.balandin Expert .ark.balandin.
Jordan DeLong [email protected] CST
Pierre Abbat [email protected] EST Beginner
Theodore Reed [email protected] PST tedreed Intermediate bancus
Arnt Richard Johansen arj tu'i bu nvg denpa bu org CET Intermediate Broca
Steve Pomeroy [email protected] EST ? Beginner Xavier
xod xod ne'i balvi pi'e org EST Intermediate/Expert
greg [email protected] CET ? Beginner/Intermediate
Stephen Weeks [email protected] MST srweeks Intermediate Tene
Philip Newton [email protected] CEST ? Beginner
Matt Arnold [email protected] EST matt_arnold Beginner Eppcott
Adam Lopresto adam ne'i pubcrawler pi'e org CDT adamlopresto Beginner/Intermediate
Kevin Reid [email protected] EDT kpreid Intermediate kpreid
Yanis Batura [email protected] GMT +6 soyendo Beginner Yanis
Alex Martini [email protected] EST amartini51 Beginner/Intermediate aleks
Jonathan Strickland [email protected] EDT ? Beginner/Intermediate djanatyn
William McMillian MDT William McMillian Beginner Very_Bill
Remy Way [email protected] EST rem.klajis Beginner/Intermediate remklajis
Gianmarco Molino [email protected] MDT mercrutio.11235813 Beginner mercrutio
Brett Williams [email protected] EST selckiku Expert selckiku
Ashley P. [email protected] EST kiriel.ambar Beginner eclen
? [email protected] GMT+2 mikkommm Beginner spfnym

Joining

We welcome anyone, regardless of expertise, physical location or monetary resources. If you can't speak much lojban, well, learning to understand others will help. If you can't afford to make long distance phone calls, one of the other members will be happy to call you. If that doesn't work, Robin Lee Powell'm willing to pony up calling card money just to get this going.

To join, just add people above to your skype friends' list and ask who might be available to talk with you.

In an ideal universe, Robin Lee Powell'd like to see people matched up with people of very different levels of ability, to spread the expertise around as quickly as possible, but I'm not hugely attached to that.

Lojban On The Phone

Please bear in mind, everyone, that collision avoidance is hard on the phone. Please become familiar with ta'a, re'i, be'e, je'e, ki'a and ke'o. Especially that last one.  :-)

Here's a phonetic alphabet for spelling words on the phone.

About Expertise