📰 sin: CLDR, Porcine Genesis, and Cthulhu.
kala Asi
toki, ale o!
It is roughly the middle of June, which means it’s time to recap what’s happened in the Toki Pona community these past two weeks!
In miscellaneous community news:
- There will be a meetup in Berlin on Sunday, June 22nd!
- jan Wiwijan had another guest appearance on Hasan Abi’s Twitch channel, where among other things they checked out a few introductory videos to Toki Pona.
- Less than 2 months remain until suno pi toki pona, a 24-hour festival of Toki Pona culture, taking place on Discord and Youtube every August. This is a good time to sign up as a presenter!
- lipu.pona.la, the Toki Pona library, exceeded 1400 works!
The Toki Pona tooling ecosystem is growing:
- A team led by jan Sonja is working on updating data for Toki Pona on CLDR, a key database that helps software support every language in the world.
- tbdhk made a website to practice typing using the Wakalito keyboard!
- jan Lijam is building lipupona.net, an open source Django+React social media application for Toki Pona speakers!
The VRChat community has uploaded several past meetup highlights:
- jan Ke Tami combined two famous fables into one, with hilarious results presented by waso Keli!
- jan Ketesi talked about identity!
- seme Alison talked about sitelen pona stamps!
- jan Ano talked about buying a house!
Toki Pona continues to get more teaching materials outside the anglosphere:
- jan Ke Tami is continuing their series of videos about Toki Pona in German!
- jan Janeko is continuing their series of videos about Toki Pona in Polish!
A lot of game-related content this time round:
- Continuing from last time, mun Kekan San streamed chapter 2 and began chapter 3 of Deltarune!
- jan tonsi Puki added a Toki Pona translation to their puzzle game Trails!
- jan Tene translated Cthulhu Dark, a tabletop roleplaying game!
- jan Anata translated an Ace Attorney scene!
As always, some new song translations:
- jan Janpa Onjon translated Otonoke, the opening song of the anime Dandadan!
- ko Luna translated Want You Gone from Portal 2!
- jan Pikesike translated Eat Bulaga and Mesmerizer!
And, of course, some weekly events you can take part in:
- soweli Lesi hosts a weekly writing prompt thread in kama sona, aimed at improving reading and writing skills! (This is a new weekly event, it just began a month ago!)
- As usual, the VRChat community holds its weekend meetups, which you are welcome to join!
- jan Lakuse hosts luka pona lessons in kama sona every Sunday!
- jan Ke Tami hosts a weekly voice chat meetup for jan Eta’s lipu tenpo reading group. Both beginners and proficient speakers are welcome!
o awen pona.
— kala Asi