LESSONS SignBank-SignPuddle- Ingvild's presentations

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Ingvild,

excellent work u have done - we have so much to do and so little time
- but many thanks for bringing the SW system to new eyes - its
important that people are being informed about our development etc...

keep the good work up!

:-)

Shane x

On 29/11/05, Ingvild Roald <iroald at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Val and all,
>
> yes, I believe that the file that Val has is the complete file - I have not
> been doing much input into SignBank over the last several months.
>
> My presentations went well. They were in a national congress on Norwegian
> langauge(s). On Friday, there was a workshop on NSL. I presented the
> possibility to store (technical) vocabulary by using SignWriting, and showed
> examples from the old SW-DOS dictionaries and fram SignPuddle and SignBank.
> There was an openness to this that I have not met among these people before.
> Also, they were impressed to hear that I had several thousand signs stored
> in my computer, and asked if was willing to share - which of course I am.
> They also wanted to know if the signs could be read by people other than the
> actual scribe, and I assured them that we can all read each other's signs
> pretty fluently.
>
> On Saturday, the audience was more mixed. I presented on the making of
> physics terminologi in NSL - based on the paper that is in the lingustic
> forum on the SignWriting site. People were impressed, and I was officially
> invited to participate at an upcoming (2007) Nordic Terminology Congress
> .... I used SW to present the signs, of course, so they all saw the system.
>
> The NSL people decided to have another workshop aound May next year, and I
> suppose that I will get further oportunities to present the system then.
>
> For now, I just have to do the last changes and pages to the book (on SW in
> Norwegian) before I publish it on the web. I will give you the URL-address
> when that is done. Before Christmas ...
>
> All the best to all,
>
> it seems everyone is so busy and soooo productive, it is amazing
>
> Ingvild
>
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> >From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
> >Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >Subject: [sw-l] LESSONS SignBank-SignPuddle
> >Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:29:47 -0800
> >
> >SignWriting List
> >November 28, 2005
> >
> >Ingvild Roald in Norway wrote:
> >>My merory was wrong - there are just 160 signs - and many of them are
> >>duplicates with different sign names (glosse), or they are imports  from
> >>you ASL dictionary ... I will make a zip-file over the weekend -  have my
> >>presentations tomorrow
> >>and Saturday, Happy Thanksgiving to you and you family today, Ingvild
> >
> >Hello Everyone, and Ingvild!
> >I hope your presentations on Friday and Saturday last week went well,
> >Ingvild! You are so busy these days...that is great ;-)
> >
> >I have waited to post the new SignBank, because I wanted to post your
> >Norwegian files... but today I looked in my old backups, and I found  an
> >old Norwegian SignBank file with around 160 signs...so I believe I  have
> >that file already. I will update it today to fit with the new  SignBank and
> >upload it along with the other countries...
> >
> >SO...Everyone...I am running a day behind because I need to update
> >Ingvild's files...so I hope you can all look for Lessons tomorrow,
> >Tuesday!!
> >
> >Talk to you then -
> >
> >Val ;-)
> >
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