Brazilian Signs (Libras)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 14, 2004

Dear SW List, Charles, and Stephen -
So glad to see people are starting to add signs to the PUDL site...We 
are just getting started with all the features there...Later I want to 
show you all how I am using the vertical column feature to create 
documents in vertical columns, all on the PUDL site...

And today I am hopefully going to have a Video Relay Service call from 
Stuart Thiessen and Philippe Galant of the Pass It On Services 
organization in Des Moines, Iowa. I do not have my video equipment yet, 
so at the moment, I will be on the voice phone, while an interpreter 
signs for me...but I am really looking forward to it! And I want 
everyone to know that if you are using SignWriting, we can schedule 
phone conversations anytime...

There is nothing like direct conversation to ease communication...

Val ;-)

----------------------





On Jun 14, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> New Brazilian signs loaded to www.pudl.info.
>  
> I have begun to slowly load the signs I archived during my work in 
> Brazil.  If there are other researchers from SignNet, please feel free 
> to augment my work.  Not all the handshapes that are used in Libras 
> are available in the template, but I'm doing what I can to at least 
> have one representative sign with each handshape available.
>  
> Please give me feedback.
>  
> Charles Butler
> SignNet Researcher
>  (now in U.S.A)
>
>
> Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> June 11, 2004
>
> Dear SW List, Stuart, and Dianne and Steve Parkhurst...
>
> Recently Stuart Thiessen asked me if we could setup a resource for
> people who are creating SignWriting instruction materials, with
> illustrations that we all would be allowed to use freely, to help
> create good looking SignWriting documents. What a great idea, Stuart!
> Soooo...
>
> Sooo....I wrote to Steven and Dianne Parkhurst, to ask them permission
> to use their illustrations from their lovely textbook, called
> SignoEscritura. Steve is an illustrator himself and really has such
> lovely diagrams!
>
> I am happy to tell you that Dianne just wrote to give us permission to
> do this, so I will be creating a PictureBank archive...like a directory
> of illustrations...that will be in html, plus in a SignBank-like
> database in FileMaker...that way people could actually open PictureBank
> while working in SignBank and SymbolBank...
>
> So many thanks for the suggestion, Stuart. I will also write to other
> illustrators to ask their permission to use their drawings too, plus I
> will add the ones from my old books...they are not the best
> illustrations, but sometimes something is better than nothing - ha!
>
> If anyone has illustrations to contribute, please tell us! I will be
> including the name of the artist at all times, so you will get credit.
> All illustrations included in the new SignWriting PictureBank will be
> copyright free, and free for people to use, so if you have
> illustrations, give only those that you want to give freely to the
> general public...
>
> Thanks for the great idea...
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
> 1. SignWritingSite
> http://www.SignWriting.org
> Read & Write Sign Languages
>
> 2. SignBankSite
> http://www.SignBank.org
> Sign Language Dictionaries
>
> 3. DanceWritingSite
> http://www.DanceWriting.org
> Read & Write Dance
>
> 4. MovementWritingSite
> http://www.MovementWriting.org
> Read & Write Movement & Gesture
>
> 5. Sutton's SymbolBank
> http://www.SignBank.org/symbolbank
> Symbol Archive For Entire System
>
> Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting
> Center For Sutton Movement Writing
> an educational nonprofit organization
> Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA
> tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020