Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community

Donald wrote:
<<
IMHO, LCC gives us a venue
within which we can experience the joy of conlanging
with others of our kind.
 >>

I certainly must echo Donald's sentiments.  When it
comes to communication, nothing beats face-to-face.
Hopefully LCC3's being (tentatively) in Rochester
will bring a new crowd, since I realize many East
Coast conlangers have had to miss out on the LCC
due to its unabashed West Coast-ed-ness, so
hopefully we can fix that with an East Coast locale.

I also wanted to add (I'm going to do a write-up of
my own later, but I'm still visiting) that one thing I
found useful was being able to bring a laptop.  Part
of the fun of meeting people is being able to share
your work, but conlangs don't transport easily.  Laptops
do, however.  In an ideal world, we'd all have a large
computer, like the one on board the Enterprise, and
little handheld slates that connected to that computer,
and could call up anything contained therein, but
as we don't, laptops seem to do the trick.  For future
LCC's, if you can bring all your many files with you
(or computerize or scan in some of the non-electronic
files you have), you should; they're well worth sharing!

-David