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Latinum Institute's Blog – February 2008 Archive (3)

Schola

Schola, the Latin social site on ning that started up at the start of the month, is doing well - with now over 100 members, the quality of the discussion has improved, as there is now a core of active members with good standards of Latinity.

Every day, letters and notes fly back and forth in the public fora, and an unknown number of private messages are exchanged - these can be in any language - but the public forum only permits Latin.

I believe the success of Schola is… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on February 19, 2008 at 4:59am — No Comments

Latinum (again)

I made a little graph, plotting what has been happening with Latinum since I started the podcast in May 2007.

Downloads have steadily been rising, although they leveled off at 100 000 a month for a while, I'll be curious to see if the new level of 140 000 a month is the new plateau, or if it rises once again. I estimate there are around 6… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on February 7, 2008 at 5:02am — 1 Comment

Schola again

Well,
Schola certainly seems to have got off to a flying start - 48 hours later, many letters, comments and postings have been made, all in Latin. There are now 33 members.
My headache now is to translate the huge language file for the site into Latin - I've done 5% so far, enough to give the site a Latin feel.

Added by Latinum Institute on February 2, 2008 at 2:37pm — 3 Comments