<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>October 30, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Ingvild!</div><div>Thank you for this message and question. Great to hear from you again...</div><div><br></div><div>Your Norwegian PocketPuddles can be updated later, with the new PersonalPuddle software installed...so later we can talk about doing that for you...The new PocketPuddle software provides several new and improved features over the old PocketPuddle:</div><div><br></div><div>1. The PersonalPuddle uses the new International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA 2008).</div><div><br></div><div>2. The PersonalPuddle gives you a way to import a complete SignPuddle Online, into your PersonalPuddle. This means you could bring in files from Saudi Arabia, Spain, Germany and the US and place them all on your PersonalPuddle, and copy signs between your files on your PersonalPuddle.</div><div><br></div><div>One new feature Steve is working on for later in 2008:</div><div>3. Importing different user interfaces in different languages...you will be able to import the Norwegian User Interface, with all the Norwegian icons, and also the German and English user interfaces, and possibly switch between the different user interfaces in different languages...that will be very useful.</div><div><br></div><div>And a new feature that has to wait until 2009:</div><div>4. Uploading your work on your PersonalPuddle to an Online area, where your work can be shared with other people on the web...This feature will not be ready until 2009, but it is on our To-Do List....</div><div><br></div><div>Steve is working on the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin right now...so there are too many projects it seems...</div><div><br></div><div>But I predict...once these new features above are in the PersonalPuddle, that having a SignPuddle Desktop version of the software will become popular and I am hoping, with the right documentation, that it will increase our SignWriting users....</div><div><br></div><div>The interchange between offline and online will be invaluable...</div><div><br></div><div>So we are very blessed with what we have right now, and we will keep you informed of course...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your suggestion -</div><div><br></div><div>Hope all is going well in Norway!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>-------------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Ingvild Roald wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Thank you, Steve and Valerie,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>for your huge work on this. Now we will have a great tool for future use, and hopefully this will help spred the good message even further.<br><br>As for the personal and pocket puddles: I understand that it will be possible to import from netbased puddles to these local puddles. Will the opposite also be true: that after working offline, it will be possible to export the work to an online puddle? This would be greatly appreciated,<br><br>Ingvild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:59:40 +0100<br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:duncanjonathan@yahoo.ca">duncanjonathan@yahoo.ca</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Hi Steve and Val,<br>> A belated congratulations on the ISWA 2008 and all the hard work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Many have already shared their feelings about this great piece of work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I too share their feelings and may it be used by generations to come<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> world wide.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Jonathan<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Steve Slevinski wrote:<br>> > Hi list,<br>> ><br>> > The review period for the ISWA 2008 ended successfully yesterday.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > Valerie will be announcing that the ISWA is final, as in finally done<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > and finished. There has been a lot of work on this latest symbol<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > set. I'm proud of the work that we've done together.<br>> ><br>> > This could be the final symbol set for SignWriting. If not forever,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > then at least the next few years. With the new character encoding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > model, this may be the symbol set that will be used with Unicode, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > that's a different story.<br>> ><br>> > SignPuddle Online already uses the ISWA 2008. Just last week I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > finished a new desktop version of the PocketPuddle called the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > PersonalPuddle for Windows and Mac. The installation has been greatly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > simplified: just unzip and start the application. It works the same<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > as SignPuddle Online, except it doesn't require an Internet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > connection. With the new SignPuddle export function, it is possible<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > to get a local copy of any of the online puddles to use offline at any<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > time.<br>> ><br>> > The PersonalPuddle is available for $100, the same price as the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > PocketPuddle. Except for the rest of this month, the price has been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > cut in half to $50 to celebrate the release of the ISWA 2008 Final.<br>> ><br>> > For the PocketPuddle users, they will be offered the PersonalPuddle at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > not cost. They can contact me directly if they would like help<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > converting their existing IMWA data over to the ISWA.<br>> ><br>> > I am finishing the IMWA Conversion document and code. It will be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > ready in the next couple of days.<br>> ><br>> > Let's all congratulate Valerie on her amazing work. This is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > historic day and I'm glad I was a part.<br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> > -Steve<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ____________________________________________<br>> ><br>> > SW-L SignWriting List<br>> ><br>> > Post Message<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>> ><br>> > List Archives and Help<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br>> ><br>> > Change Email Settings<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > __________ Información de NOD32, revisión 3550 (20081023) __________<br>> ><br>> > Este mensaje ha sido analizado con NOD32 antivirus system<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nod32.com">http://www.nod32.com</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> ____________________________________________<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> SW-L SignWriting List<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Post Message<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> List Archives and Help<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Change Email Settings<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>