<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 18, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Mark and Bill!</DIV><DIV>Thank you for your suggestions in your messages below. This is so helpful! I guess the Mission Statement should be one long sentence.... and then Objectives follow...Here is another stab at it...is this any better? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV><B>SignWriting Mission Statement</B></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><B>Mission:</B></DIV><DIV>To provide Deaf communities and signers around the world with a written form for all Sign Languages, improving literacy levels of the signing-deaf, providing tools and software for education, linguistic research and publishing, preserving languages and literature that have never been recorded, and providing added respect and self-esteem for all those who use Sign Language as their primary language.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><B>Objectives:</B></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>1 To provide all Sign Language users a written form for Sign Language.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>2 To provide all Deaf cultures a way to document their native languages.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>3 To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign Language users.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>4 To provide software for preparing and publishing written Sign Language.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>5 To provide free education in SignWriting to all Sign Language users.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>6 To provide training for teachers to teach SignWriting and related software.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>7 To provide free access to lessons, literature and software on the World Wide Web.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>8 To provide published written Sign Language Literature on library shelves.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>9 To provide research tools for Sign Language linguistic research.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>10 To provide employment for Sign Language users and software programmers.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>11 To assist SignWriting users in communicating and sharing with each other.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>12 To educate the world that Sign Languages are now written languages!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 18, 2006, at 2:59 PM, <A href="mailto:litlegu@AOL.COM">litlegu@AOL.COM</A> wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I agree, one mission statement will probably more concisely communicate your efforts. I wrote my own version below. Hope it helps!</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>SignWriting Mission Statement</DIV><DIV>"To provide the Deaf community and ... throughout the world with the ability to flourish through the use of their native language."</DIV><DIV>Our objectives thus far are the following: (then list the objectives you stated earlier)</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>As for the ... section, I wasn's sure how to state that part. It should encompss those like teachers, researchers, and so on. Perhaps something like, "those with a vested interest" (which isn't very good)...</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Mark</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>--------------------<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>-----Original Message-----</DIV><DIV>From: Bill Reese <<A href="mailto:wreese01@TAMPABAY.RR.COM">wreese01@TAMPABAY.RR.COM</A>></DIV><DIV>To: <A href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</A></DIV><DIV>Sent: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:27:37 -0400</DIV><DIV>Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting Mission Statement</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV> Val,</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV> I'm wondering if you could write that into one mission statement that encompasses all those separate missions as tasks. You would have one mission and several tasks to that mission. A broader mission statement then may be "A sustained and verifiable worldwide effort in SignWriting use and development for the promotion and education to and for the Deaf, their teachers, the public and researchers on and for the benefits and applicability of written signed languages. The mission tasks are:</DIV><DIV>To provided all .... "</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>-------------------</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Bill</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Valerie Sutton wrote:</DIV><DIV>> SignWriting List</DIV><DIV>> June 18, 2006</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>> Ingvild Roald from Norway wrote:</DIV><DIV> >> Wonderfull! Thanks - we would use some of this for the European Sign >> Writers' charter/ constitution. Just one thing more: To give free >> accsess through the World Wide Web for basic software, lessons, and >> litterature in SignWriting - or something along these lines</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > Thank you, Ingvild! I have added that one. Plus I just got suggestions > for more....</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>> So now we have 12! See below...</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>> Can anyone think of any more?</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>> Val ;-)</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV>> *SignWriting Mission Statement*</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 1:* To provide all Sign Language users a written form for > Sign Language.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 2:* To provide all Deaf cultures a way to document their > native languages.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 3: *To raise the literacy levels and self-esteem of all Sign > Language users.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 4:* To provide software for preparing and publishing written > Sign Language.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 5: *To provide free education in SignWriting to all Sign > Language users.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 6:* To provide training for teachers to teach SignWriting and > related software.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 7:* To provide free access to lessons, literature and > software on the World Wide Web.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 8:* To provide published written Sign Language Literature on > library shelves.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 9:* To provide research tools for Sign Language linguistic </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>research.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 10:* To provide employment for Sign Language users and > software programmers.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 11:* To assist SignWriting users in communicating and sharing > with each other.</DIV><DIV>></DIV><DIV> > *Mission 12:* To educate the world that Sign Languages are now written > languages!</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>________________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV>Check out AOL.com today. 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