SignText license opinions

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 7, 2007

Dear SW Listers, and Steve!

Thank you, Steve, for your unending hard work to give us amazing  
tools for writing SignWriting dictionaries and documents with  
SignPuddle Software on the web.

This is a VERY big step we are taking together - But I feel joy and  
excitement to think of SignPuddle and the ISWA (International  
SignWriting Alphabet) as a part of a new SourceForge project...

For those on the List who are not software developers...This is a  
very important and big step forward. Steve and I work together daily,  
slowly carving out the needed features in SignPuddle to create and  
publish long documents in SignWriting. It has been a step-by-step,  
multiple-year project that is now resulting in the ability to produce  
long documents in multiple sizes, colors, column widths and formats.  
It is a major accomplishment and very hard work. Steve and I will be  
working long hours until it is released as a package in 2008.

We believe that 2008 will be a year of monumental change for software  
development for written Sign Language documents and web postings in  
SignWriting. Right now we can create beautiful documents in both  
SignPuddle and SignBank, but in 2008 it will be taken to a much  
bigger level, because we will be reaching more people, through other  
sites, with Steve's SignWriting plugins...

So we will be "burning the midnight oil" (an old phrase meaning we  
will be working long hours into the nights) until the package is  
ready in 2008, and then it will be officially announced...

I have a big smile...

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

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On Nov 7, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Quick update... I will be releasing the SignText source code under  
> the GPL.  I've registered a project with SourceForge that is  
> pending approval.  I've spoken with Val and we hope to have an  
> official package ready in January 2008 that includes the ISWA under  
> the OFL as well.
> SignText documents will have 2 formats: XML syntax and a compact  
> syntax.  Now would be a great time for comments and feedback.
> XML syntax example (423 characters)
> --------------------
> <stml>
>  <sign lane="0">
>    <symbol x="10" y="15">01-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>    <symbol x="20" y="55">02-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>    <symbol x="70" y="17">03-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>  </sign>
>  <sign lane="1">
>    <symbol x="20" y="23">04-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>    <symbol x="50" y="57">02-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>  </sign>
>  <sign lane="-1">
>    <symbol x="10" y="10">01-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>  </sign>
> </stml>
> Compact syntax example (156 characters)
> ---------------------
> 01-01-001-01-01-01,10,15,02-01-001-01-01-01,20,55,03-01-001-01-01-01,7 
> 0,17,0
> 04-01-001-01-01-01,20,23,02-01-001-01-01-01,50,57,1
> 01-01-001-01-01-01,10,10,-1
> I am looking into writing an extension for MediaWiki.  Last year I  
> wrote an extension to display SignWriting in MediaWiki.  This time  
> I'll also try to integrate SignText as well.
>
> Regards
> -Steve
>
>
>
>
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