Videophone and Skype Meetings possible

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 23, 2008

Hello Gerard and everyone -

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Have you considered to give presentations to conferences in this way.

Yes. This has already happened. At the First European SignWriting  
Symposium in Brussels, Belgium, 2005, we setup a videophone, thanks to  
the invaluable help of Daniel Noelpp who made that possible, and also  
Kasterlinden School in Belgium (thank you Kathleen and Sarah!). I  
spoke to the Symposium briefly from my office here in California, at  
the very beginning of the Symposium. It was a lot of fun! But it was a  
very short connection, and a little confusing with so many people  
there, and I could not see all of the people in the room...So I  
learned from that experience that it might be better for future  
conferences, if we did such a presentation to small groups...maybe  
five people at most at one time...that could be an ongoing feature of  
the conference...to meet with me by videophone or by Skype or by some  
other amazing technology!

So, yes, Gerard, if you know of a conference where someone would want  
to talk with me through technology availabe at the conference, just  
put me in contact with them and we can arrange a meeting or  
presentation...


> PS at the conference on lexicography in Arhus Denmark I mentioned  
> SignWriting and explained that SignWriting opens up a corpus that  
> allows them to use the tools of their trade on a group of languages  
> that is largely unavailable to them ... All in all i spoke a few  
> minutes about this subject as part of my presentation :)


It is great to hear that you presented a little on SignWriting in  
Aarhus. I also presented SignWriting once in Aarhus, back in the early  
1980's when SignWriting was used in the Danish schools...I can't even  
remember the exact place of my presentation at the University of  
Aarhus at the time...it was so long ago....but I remember having a  
great experience talking with software developers in the cafeteria  
there, afterwards....that was before personal computers were the norm,  
yet we were discussing the programming of SignWriting anyway...little  
could we imagine the amazing software of today, directly on the web,  
where everyone can share documents and dictionaries...I am happy that  
SignWriting software has taken this public direction, so everyone can  
write and share...

Aarhus is a beautiful city!

And thanks for your ongoing support of SignWriting...

Val ;-)



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