<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 20, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Report from Val's Desk September 20, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Dear SW List Members -</div><div>I have been trying to catch up with all the remarkable messages on the SignWriting List! Ha! That does not seem possible ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Like wild horses running down a beach, we are galloping ahead full steam!</div><div><br></div><div>Isn't it exciting to see the reading and writing of sign languages take off like this? I feel really blessed …</div><div><br></div><div>So what do I have to do?</div><div><br></div><div>hmmm</div><div><br></div><div>1. I need to answer those 10 questions on the SW List, and to also comment on other people's excellent answers ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>2. I need to list all of the dissertations, theses and other projects on SignWriting, for Maria's dissertation. I will post this listing to the SignWriting List. There are so many, it is absolutely amazing…</div><div><br></div><div>3. I want very much to answer Jonathan's questions for his software searching.</div><div><br></div><div>4, And I want to answer your question, Stefan, in a way that will maybe finally help, but it may not…but we can try…maybe I should make a short video in English to try to explain … I think if we could be in the same room with each other it would help too - I hope you can come to the Symposium?</div><div><br></div><div>5. and then there is the SignWriting Symposium - I am still working on the exact rooms & space & equipment….And of course I have the fund raising aspect of this…and we have been brainstorming how it will be scheduled - there will be basically four different venues: Papers & Presentations, SW Workshops, Wikipedia Hackathon, and an Online participation. I hope we will fully video the conference and post the presentations online and also publish a PDF of the written proceedings.</div><div><br></div><div>What is a Hackathon? Steve or Gerard will explain this better than I, but it is where programmers and wiki-skilled developers work together to get the software working so we can all write articles in written sign languages!!</div><div><br></div><div>6. And while we are on that subject, there will soon be two new articles in our ASL Wikipedia…articles on USA presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln - they will be posted in our test area in a few weeks - </div><div><br></div><div>ASL Wikipedia on Wikimedia Labs</div><div><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div><img height="135" width="155" id="689fbe7f-a6cd-4be4-8000-1992fa3d53cd" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:346F1E83-F318-4720-931B-DB1D4845C422"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">ASL Wikipedia Project on Wikimedia Labs</div><div><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a></div><div><br></div></span></div></div></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Val ;-)</div></span></span></div></body></html>