<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva CY"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">SignWriting List</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva CY"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">June 10, 2005</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR></FONT><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Eyasu Hailu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"> from Ethiopia wrote:</FONT></FONT><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I was thinking to happen Sign Writing real to my country also. I need to share your views. If your country is one of the users of Sign Writing, did you have any preconditions to start the activity?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Hello Eyasu!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Welcome to the SignWriting List!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">There are people in at least 30 countries who use SignWriting. It is free for anyone to use. There are no pre-conditions to start using it. I ask everyone to join the SignWriting List. That way you get the best tech support, either from me, or from others on the List. And you have done that...so you are ready to learn SignWriting if you wish!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Have you visited the Lessons section on the SignWriting site?</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Lessons in SignWriting</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/lessons">http://www.SignWriting.org/lessons</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">And have you visited SignPuddle on the web?</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">36 SignPuddle Dictionaries</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><A href="http://signbank.org/signpuddle">http://signbank.org/signpuddle</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">You will be the first person from Ethiopia that I know of...It will be great to have an Ethiopian SignPuddle on the web. I just asked Steve to create that for you...</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">So as soon as that is ready, you can start adding signs to your Ethiopian Sign Language Dictionary on the web...and we can teach you how to do that step by step, here on the SignWriting List...</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">So start reading some of the lessons on the web...</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Val ;-)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Valerie Sutton</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1. SignWritingSite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org">http://www.SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Read & Write Sign Languages</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2. SignBankSite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.SignBank.org">http://www.SignBank.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sign Language Dictionaries</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>