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

Tue Nov 11 14:50:02 UTC 2008

Valerie Sutton 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...
>
Hi Val,    That sounds like a very nice project!!! For other possible 
income you could do like WindowsSecrets.  They have a free newsletter 
and also another one with paid content.  If you want the paid content 
then you can subscribe for say a year.  See an example at. 
http://windowssecrets.com/2008/11/06/02-These-speedup-utilities-arent-worth-your-money

Jonathan
> 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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