<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>July 9, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Charles Butler wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; ">I have not set a date for the SW symposium as you have been only the 2nd person to express any interest at all. If I get interest from at least 10 people on this list, then I will start looking for a place to hold the symposium. It will be exciting to do, but trying to start from a standing start without knowing whether there is interest makes it hard.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Are you really trying to setup a Symposium, Charles? Symposiums are formal meetings that usually take years of planning with a committee behind it...doing it alone is pretty exhausting!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What about a SignWriting meeting or workshop instead?.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am sorry I do not travel, or I would love to attend!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are only a handful of Americans on this List. Most are from other countries. So maybe you should try contacting others in Washington D.C. area who are not on the List...You could post messaages on the Sign Language Linguist List and the Teach ASL List for example...and place flyers at Gallaudet University...you will get more people that way...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>