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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Dear Val,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>just curious: What did you discuss about SignWriting in the Philippines?
Who is the person that was at your meeting? Maybe we could get in touch? What so
you think?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>We are just getting ready to go to Europe for three months so I will not
be on-line for a few days.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></b> Valerie Sutton
[mailto:sutton@signwriting.org]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Freitag, 11. März 2005
04:59<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> SIGNWRITING List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> [sw-l] SignWriting Report
with Ingvild Roald from Norway ;-)</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>SignWriting
List<br>
March 10, 2005<br>
<br>
SignWriting Report<br>
>From Val's Desk in California ;-)<br>
<br>
Dear SW List -<br>
Ingvild Roald is here visiting me from Norway....Ingvild gave a great
presentation to our Board Meeting last Monday night. Six Board Members
attended...plus another guest from the Philippines, and Ingvild. We did our
annual voting and discussing finances, bookkeeping, accounting, taxes and fund
raising, and then we all piled into three cars and drove to a nearby restaurant
and had dinner, and Ingvild then shared her experiences and accomplishments
with us. Ingvild has been using SignWriting in the Norwegian schools and as a
part of her research since 1983. We learned so much!! Thank you, Ingvild. Our
Board Members really enjoyed it. Anne Goldman, one of our Board Members, is a
teacher of multiply-handicapped children here in San Diego, and Anne is also a
Danish-American, and also lived and worked in South Africa for 15 years...so
the conversation was very international and really fascinating. We also discussed
SignWriting in the Philippines.<br>
<br>
Tuesday and Wednesday Ingvild and I worked on testing the new SignWriter Tiger
program, which is being programmed by Daniel Noelpp, in Switzerland. Daniel is
creating a new version of SignWriter DOS and SignWriter Java, re-built, from
the ground-up, in the new version of Java called Tiger. That is why it is
called SignWriter Tiger.<br>
<br>
SignWriter Tiger will not be ready for users until the end of 2005, but Ingvild
and I tested what we have right now, and we really enjoyed the process. It will
be exciting when the program is ready for use...It is a very attractive
program, with a nice-looking user interface...It feels like a blend of the DOS
and old Java interfaces, which I think is quite impressive...Many thanks to
Daniel and his brother, Matthias, for the hard work they have put into
SignWriter Tiger.<br>
<br>
Then we telephoned Daniel and his brother Matthias yesterday, in
Switzerland...just to say hello!! Daniel is Deaf and Mattias is hard-of-hearing
but the four of us understood each other well...Mattias did some
interpreting...All in all it was a nice way to be in touch....Someday I look
forward to using the videophone and sign language with Daniel and Matthias, but
for right now, this was a way to have brief contact at least...<br>
<br>
Then Ingvild and I telephoned Dr. Penny Boyes Braem and Siv Fosshaug in
Switzerland. Penny interpreted...;-))<br>
<br>
Siv is a Deaf Norwegian, who lives in Switzerland...and Siv and Ingvild know
each other....So Ingvild invited Siv to join a new organization...called
SignWriting in Norway....or Tegnskrift i Norge....and Siv accepted...it is
great to have so many people using SignWriting in both Norway and Switzerland.
Siv, Penny and another Deaf co-worker, Carmen Steiner, are all adding
Swiss-German signs into their SignPuddle now.<br>
<br>
Today, Thursday...and tomorrow...Ingvild and I are editing Ingvild's new book,
entitled...<br>
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