Announcing: the SignWriting Image Server beta

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have been blogging in the past about SignWriting and I am sure I will do
so in the future. Today I blogged as well. Thanks Steve and Valerie for
doing a superb job.
Thanks,
      Gerard

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/05/beta-release-of-signwriting-image.html

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Steve Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net>
wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I'm happy to announce the beta version of the SignWriting Image Server:
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/swis
>
> This is an open source project for web servers that creates SignWriting
> images.  The code in licensed under the GPL v3.  The SignWriting font for
> the ISWA 2008 is licensed under the Open Font License.  The main SWIS
> document is licensed under Creative Commons (by-sa).
>
> The SignWriting Image Server does not create the content for web pages; it
> displays the content that has already been created.  Once I update
> SignPuddle for the ISWA 2008, it will use SWIS and be able to generate SWIS
> ready content.  After that, I'll be working on the open source SignText
> plug-in that will also use SWIS.
>
> You can download the project.  It requires a web server with PHP and the
> GD graphics library.  The download is 11 MB and contains over 33 thousand
> files.
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/swis.zip
>
> I'm expecting to have the Release Candidate 1 ready by the end of the
> month.  I should have the ISWA version of SignPuddle ready to test by that
> time.  Val and I have been working on a conversion routine from the IMWA to
> the ISWA that is currently 99.9% accurate.
>
> I'm excited for the open standards.  We will have a MediaWiki plugin
> sometime this summer.  What fun!
>
> Regard,
> -Steve
>
>
>
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