do you accept to help ?!?!

[Adam Frost]

Yes Val, all of the SignWriting on my webpage is done by SignText. I am
currently not "satisfied" with my page, so I am always improving it when
ever I get the chance.

Adam
www.FrostVillage.com

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:07:25 -0700, "Valerie Sutton"
<sutton at signwriting.org> said:
> SignWriting List
> April 8, 2006
> 
> Anne-Claude Pr�laz Girod from French-Switzerland wrote:
> > I would like to know whether you'd accept to help me....
> 
> Of course! I know I have had trouble lately getting to everything,  
> but I am here and there are ways to arrange for all this to be  
> done...we just need to focus properly...two days ago I started the  
> Ethiopian handshapes in the IMWA, and just as I got started, our  
> programmer, Todd Duell, who is creating the new version of SignBank  
> for us...he needed me to test the new software...and so once again I  
> was unable to finish the handshapes for Ethiopia because of the  
> testing of software...so I jump from one project to another...that is  
> why I get behind...but sooner or later it all gets done ;-))
> 
> But there is one rule I try to stick to...If someone asks a technical  
> question on the SignWriting List, like ....how do I write this  
> sign?....or... I do not understand these symbols can you tell me what  
> they mean?...I always answer the technical questions first on the  
> List if I can...so you need to start writing specific signs in your  
> SignPuddle, then post each individual sign to the List and ask...is  
> this the way you would write this?...
> 
> Ask questions on the List...that is the fastest way to get an  
> answer...one sign at a time...one sign per question...smile...
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > the internet "www.PiSourd.ch" Site you visited  was made by an  
> > association
> > which I sometimes work with... and from which I'm a member too...  
> > they've
> > made such a good work in this field... it's just incredible... I'd  
> > like to
> > help them, contribute to the new version of their site.... which  
> > they are
> > preparing
> 
> Oh I agree. Their site is wonderful - really impressive how much work  
> they have done and they have some very good videos there I see...
> 
> 
> >
> > they would like to add signWriting in the new version.... and I  
> > though I
> > could work on their specific vocabulary (instead of working on other
> > words...) if it can be usefull for them!!! that can be a good notation
> > exercice for me...
> 
> Wonderful!
> 
> OK. First, have you seen this web site by Deaf ASL signer, Adam  
> Frost? It is a web site completely in SignWriting, that was prepared,  
> I believe, by Adam with SignText, and then Steve assisted Adam in  
> reducing the size of the SignWriting for the web site..This is one  
> way you could do a portion of the www.PiSourd.ch...take a look and  
> tell me what you think?:...
> 
> 
> The Frost Village in ASL
> http://www.frostvillage.com
> 
> Adam, your entire site was prepared with SignText, right? It looks  
> great, congratulations!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > BUT... i'sometimes still hesitate about movment notation... and  
> > would like
> > to know if I can count on your help correcting some of my  
> > notation ?!?!?
> 
> Yes! That is the purpose of this SignWriting List!
> 
> 1. Write the sign in SignPuddle and save it.
> 
> 2. Attach the sign to an email message and ask your questions to the  
> SW List...
> 
> 3. Then we answer, and we can also add new versions of the writing of  
> the same sign, to your SignPuddle, for you to think about...
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Would you accept to give a look at my SW notation... and watch the  
> > vid�o on
> > www.PiSourd.ch... to make sure what I write is correct ?!?! (in the
> > SignPuddle... (the last 6 signs for examples) I wrote down PISOURD  
> > to know
> > where the sign comes from....
> 
> Of course! Let's do it on the SignWriting List. What is the link to  
> the video you want me to look at...? When I go to www.PiSourd.ch I do  
> not know where to look....smile...
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > what about this proposal ?!?!
> >
> > Let me know if anything like this would be possible
> 
> It always has been possible! I have been sad lately that no one was  
> asking questions about writing specific signs on the SignWriting  
> List, so I would welcome this, Anny...start with a sign in SignPuddle  
> and ask me how I would write it? ok...smile...
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Iwould like to ask help from someone else as I know you have so  
> > many things
> > to work on right now...... anyone else interested in helping me  
> > with this
> > project ?!?!?
> 
> Is there anyone else who can help Anny too? That would be great and I  
> hope so...
> 
> But meanwhile, start posting questions, Anny...Please!! ;-)
> 
> Val ;-)
> 
>