Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community

On 7/16/07, Donald Boozer <donaldboozer@...> wrote:
> I haven't seen that much posted on LCC2, so I would
> like to add my 2.5 cents concerning the event. It has
> been a little over a week now, so the initial euphoria
> has had time to wear off, but, you know what, I'm
> still euphoric. Sai, Alex, David, and the others
> responsible for bringing this to fruition did a
> marvelous job.
Indeed.

>The conference was larger than last
> year (a trend?),
Probably being announced earlier gave more people
a chance to plan vacation around it and save money
for the trip.

> One
> thing that struck me was that everyone I met was as
> interesting and friendly in-person as they are online.
In some cases more so.

> During the final
> roundtable discussions, it was stressed that
> participants would like to see MORE interaction at
> LCC3: dialogues or skits in conlangs, "forced
> socialization" (i.e., formal informal get-togethers),
The main thing, I think, is to have some informal
after-hours programming in addition to just having
dinner at a restaurant.  We had such at LCC2
(hanging out in the recreation room at the dormitory,
playing pool and Glossotechnia and talking), but it
was arranged at the last minute and probably some
people who would have enjoyed it didn't hear about
it.

I'd like to thank the people who playtested Glossotechnia
at LCC2, especially those who gave me feedback on
improving the game play: David Salo, Jeff Burke, Lila Sadkin,
and Alex Fink.  I haven't had time to write up the results
of those games or the couple of games I played with
younger cousins at the family reunion this past weekend
-- I've been busy with the inverse translation relay --
but sometime soon I hope to put up a Glossotechnia
web page with a list of cards in the deck, rules, and
so forth.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry