JEB - Junularo Esperantista Brita

If you have been thinking of volunteering with Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo, your chance comes again.

A new volunteer to work in its Headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is sought for again.

This time, the deadline to apply is the 15th January 2012.

You can read more about this in my previous blog and also (in Esperanto) on the official webpage of TEJO.

Whatever the weather, must have told himself Zamenhof just before he chose to be born on 15th December 1859.

Later on, when he was 28, he went public with his project of a constructed language striving to improve, or rather to bring a new quality into, the international understanding; but that was in July, so he was actually only 27 and a half.

Is it possible to breathe a soul into an artificial language? Nobody knew the answer then, but now we do: yes, it is, but it takes more than one man; and a better weather than the December one.

Ne-oficiale la renkontiĝo komenciĝis jam je la 9a de Septembro vendrede kiam 9 junuloj ĉeestis la kunvenon en la Londona Esperanto-klubo, kie okazis lud-vespero gvidita de Mikaelo. Post la renkontiĝo en la klubo, kiel tradicio de la londonana junularo, ni iris al apuda vegatara manĝejo por la vespermanĝo kaj post tio ni vizitis drinkejon kiu nomiĝas The World’s End (La fino de la mondo) por havi kelkajn pajntojn.

TEJO serĉas... : aliĝu ankaŭ vi al la Komisiono pri Adoleska Agado!

La Komisiono pri Adoleska Agado de TEJO kreiĝis en 2010 por trafi la bezonojn de aĝkategorio kiu ofte "perdiĝas" el la movado. Sub 18 jaraĝuloj fakte havas malmultajn okazojn por renkontiĝi en Esperantujo: la IIK (Internacia Infana Kongreseto) havas alian celgrupon, dum la junularaj renkontiĝoj ankoraŭ ne tute taŭgas por adoleskuloj. Ankaŭ malgrandas la oferto de alispecaj projektoj kiuj sin adresu specife al ili.

Ni kredas ke venis la tempo ŝanĝi tian situacion …ĉu ankaŭ vi?

JEB's website is designed to be a rich platform for sharing and contributing all sorts of content in or about Esperanto. In previous incarnations of the website, the Forum was used as the primary means of sharing content. That's no longer true; the new forum is intended primarily for discussion and chat. If you want to write an article to provide information, as opposed to discussion, it needs to go on the blog.

If you are planning a gap year and are considering volunteering with an international NGO, then this might be something for you.

TEJO (Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo -- World Esperanto Youth Organisation) has a volunteer position in its Headquarters, called Centra Oficejo (Central Office), in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and they are looking for a new volunteer right now!

The Internacia Junulara Kongreso — International Congress of Young Esperantists, the biggest annual event of young Esperanto-speakers, will be taking place from 14th to 21st July 2011 in Kyiv, the Ukraine's capital.

British passport holders (or those of any other EU country) do not need visa to enter Ukraine.

You can find detailed information (in Esperanto and in Ukrainian) and the signing-up form (=aliĝilo) at the IJK website.

If you happen to be sufficiently geeky or an advocate of open-source software (or both) and have Linux as the operating system on your computer, the good news is that pretty much all Linux distributions already have the ability to type accented Esperanto letters (ĈĉĜĝĤĥĴĵŜŝŬŭ) built in without needing an external program like Ek! (as for Windows). The problem is setting your distro up to do this ...

One of the small difficulties with Esperanto is how to type the accented letters (ĉĝĥĵŝŭ) on a computer. While you can use the x notation (cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux) or even the h notation (ch, gh, hh, jh, sh, u) to represent those letters, it's so much nicer if you can use the proper characters.

Ek! (Esperanta klavaro) really is an incredibly useful piece of (Windows-compatible) software. Once you've got it up and running, it's incredibly easy to use.

The options screen, however, is a little off putting, especially if you're new to the language. Even if you're not, it's still not the easiest thing in the world to understand, especially when you have to make your choices on the spur of the moment.

So, to do a little to help prevent people from being to overawed to install the program, here's a little step-by-step guide about what the options are and what I'd recommend.

So you are realising that UEA and TEJO are cool mega-useful organisations, which you want to support and whose services you want to enjoy, right? If you have already tried to look at the membership-fee table and were perplexed at the rather complex system of membership categories, do not despair: Marteno is here to guide you hand-in-hand through the labyrinth, in which he feels himself right at home. So will you, soon