An online newsletter ... was ... Re: [sw-l] a few things...and Obama logo O plus rainbow

Tue Nov 11 01:59:42 UTC 2008

Of course! I wouldn't want to quit on that. And just so you know, my  
Deaf brother in law who hasn't been able to work for a year and a half  
has been using them to self teach himself because I don't have much  
time that I could teach him, and whenever we are together we chat like  
we haven't seen each other for years. Ok. It usually a week or two,  
but you know how two Deaf people chat up a storm when they meet. ;-)

Adam

On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:13 PM, "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at mac.com>  
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> November 10, 2008
>
> Years ago we published the SignWriter Newspaper...from 1981 to 1984 (http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/hist005.html 
> ), with a staff of ten native signers. It was funded in part, by a  
> publishing company in Newport Beach, California...They paid for the  
> printing of 11,000 newspapers four times a year, and they also paid  
> for the postage to ship the newspapers free of charge to schools for  
> the Deaf etc around the country and to several European countries.  
> It was a wonderful grant that really was exciting. The SignWriter  
> Newspaper gave us four years of important experiences...it is  
> because of the SignWriter Newspaper that we now are writing  
> expressively and also in vertical columns, because through the  
> experience of writing articles for the newspaper, our Deaf staff  
> learned what was needed to make a better writing system and that is  
> why Lucinda O'Grady Batch and Meriam Ina Schroeder and Dennis  
> Schemenauer and others felt so strongly that the writing system had  
> to be expressive and vertical...so I see those years of the  
> SignWriter Newspaper as one of the best research projects we have  
> ever had...
>
> Then as you know, we stopped publication of the SignWriter Newspaper  
> from 1984 to 1989...to develop the SignWriter Computer Program, and  
> then we started a SignWriter Newsletter version for just a small  
> group of people...and it was typed by computer...Recently we have  
> added those SignWriter Newsletter articles starting in 1989, into  
> the ASL Literature Puddle. We could re-publish them now, in our new  
> formatting, using SignPuddle, and start sending the articles through  
> SignMail...
>
> Once we have sent a few by SignMail to the SignWriting List, we can  
> ask all of our List members if they want to receive more...creating  
> a specific list of subscribers...and if there is interest, this  
> could become a wonderful project for me to ask for funding  
> for...from new sponsors...
>
> Because of the financial crisis in the world right now, some of our  
> annual sponsors have not been sending their funding to us...I can  
> really understand why...one person told me that he lost a great deal  
> of money in the stock market and he couldn't help us right now...I  
> totally understand but I have also become stressed about this and I  
> am looking for new angles to encourage people to give...this new  
> idea might help...the idea that we can provide good information to  
> Deaf adults about the world, and at the same time encourage literacy  
> too...
>
> So let me see what I can do, Adam...
>
> Meanwhile, your animated GIFs are so great and I look forward to  
> finishing the web pages for that, so everyone here on the List and  
> see your wonderful animated GIFs of the ISWA handshapes ;-))
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
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>
>
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>
>> And maybe also make it available in print for special requests.  
>> This would be a very fun thing to get involved in. ;-) I just know  
>> from experience that it would require more that just me to do this  
>> as I have tried to do it alone before.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> November 10, 2008
>>>
>>>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>>>> I completely understand, and it makes sense to me as well. Most  
>>>>> Deaf in the US can't get involved with politics even if they  
>>>>> wanted to because there is no news station that is given in any  
>>>>> form of SL. In fact, most of the captioning on news stations are  
>>>>> horrible. Newspapers have been the way for Deaf people to get  
>>>>> information for a long time, but those are dying out. Now the  
>>>>> main place to get news in on the internet, but there are a lot  
>>>>> of people who do not know how to use the internet, then the is  
>>>>> the question of where to go to a trusted source, and lastly is  
>>>>> the frustration that all of the news sites all too often use  
>>>>> videos from the TV stations......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We could have an ongoing "newsletter through email" to those who  
>>> subscribe, written in ASL and English. We could have different  
>>> topics, related to the daily news and other important topics that  
>>> Deaf people might be isolated from...
>>>
>>> There will be very few readers in the beginning, but in time the  
>>> readership might build, and maybe it would provide more  
>>> information to the Deaf Community. It could arrive on your  
>>> blackberry or handhelds...We could also post these articles in the  
>>> new SignWriting WikiMedia Plugin on the web, which can lead to a  
>>> real Wikipedia later...
>>>
>>> Would anyone be interested in helping with this? The problem is  
>>> that I am quite overbooked and at the moment we have no funding  
>>> for this...so it really needs funding...but imagine if we could  
>>> get funding to write this ASL newsletter on the topics of the day...
>>>
>>> That would be a great project for all of us - and inform the Deaf  
>>> Community...it is a shame they are cut off so badly from daily  
>>> news...
>>>
>>> By the way, the logo for the Obama campaign is an O with a  
>>> rainbow...it is a lovely logo...and that is why some of those name  
>>> signs were an O hand and then the number 4 in a curve for the  
>>> rainbow...it was "O with a rainbow" to match his logo...
>>>
>>> So that logo might influence the sign for him in time...
>>>
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>> <Obama.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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