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Wed Oct 22 13:19:15 UTC 2008

My seconds to all on this list.  My name is Charles Butler and I give my own personal gratitude to Valerie Sutton who has worked with programmers throughout the years to make this system available to everyone.

  1) I was priveleged to represent Sign Writing and Dance Writing at a symposium in New York City when Valerie was not able to attend a conference more than 20 years ago. With our little Apple-II-e program we were able to wow the socks off the people at the conference.  All of their systems were based on labanotation, which can show intensity of movement, and specific kinds of choreography, but nothing as flexible as Dance Writing or as immediately accessible as even the Apple-II-e program was.  

  With that program (the precursor to the SignWriter program) one could type sign, type English (or Danish), change that English with a swipe of a key to fingerspelling, and show piece by piece a comparative grammar between English Roman letters and ASL signs....and that was many years ago.  I miss that little program.  

  2) Since then I have traveled to Brazil (Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Florianopolis, and Pelotas), and seen SW in action and being widely accepted for everyday use.  My hope and dream is to see it used with the TISLR conferences to show how much easier linguistic concepts can be shown when one has a clear graphic representation of movement. One can say in five words and a picture what now takes 150 words and still isn't clear.  

  3) I am overwhelmed with Valerie's generosity, and Steve's persistence in getting this symbol set into a workable set of principles for Sign Writing so that we can truly start creating comparative dictionaries, stories, newspaper articles, and other expressions in the living signed languages of the world.

  4) Valerie is truly a living Sequoia, bringing living languages into print in a way that will go into history.  We are all ripples in her pond.  

  Charles Butler Neto
  -sometime of the SignNet Project in Porto Alegre & Pelotas Brazil
  -currently working on creating the Sign Writing Linguistic Society (a dream for now)
  -contributor to the SW Wikipedia project
  -founding member of the Silent Heralds (interpreters for the Society for Creative Anachronism).  

Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:
    I have to agree with you. Both Val and Steve have done a lot for us and billions of people now and many more to come. Words of gratitude are not enough. 

  Adam

On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:36 PM, "mohammed abushaira" <m_abushaira at yahoo.com> wrote:

      Hello Val & Steve

 Great done. I wish you very happy life with your creative ISWA 2008.and god blesses you for these long years of hard continuously work >

In fact words can not give what you deserve because you deserve more.

You'll be mention as great people who come to this planet and when he left it he left a sign , effect !

Thanks 
Mohamed         

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1. Re: ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle (Valerie Sutton)
2. ANNOUNCING A NEW PUDDLE PRODUCT! (Valerie Sutton)
From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:13:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [sw-l] ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle

SignWriting List
October 21, 2008

Hello SignWriting List!

And thank you Steve, for your message below. Thank you for the kind 
words. And thank you for collaborating with me, to make this historic 
moment possible.

There are two big announcements today.

FIRST...The International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA 2008) is official!

The ISWA became the official symbolset for SignWriting around the 
world, yesterday, October 20, 2008!

The ISWA is now installed in all SignPuddle software products. I will 
be reviewing all the SignPuddle products here on the SignWriting List 
over the next few days...

The free online version of SignPuddle is used daily by hundreds of 
sign language users.

When you use SignPuddle Online, you are using the ISWA 2008 symbols:

SignPuddle Online
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle

Most of you may not realize that you are using the ISWA, but you are. 
Whenever you use SignPuddle Online, it is there for you, in SignMaker 
and SignText.

The ISWA is the culmination of my 35 years developing SignWriting. As 
you know, the first SignWriting document ever written was in 1974 at 
the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. SignWriting became my life's 
work from that moment on, and will be for the rest of my life.

Without all of the wonderful SignWriting users around the world, of 
course SignWriting could not be what it is today....so THANK YOU to 
all of you, for your feedback and your use of the writing 
system...Your input has made the ISWA 2008 possible too.

I hope my gift of the ISWA to the world will be useful for generations 
to come...

I will announce the second announcement next message...it is new 
software for your desktop, called the PersonalPuddle.

Thank you once again, Steve, for your remarkable software that made 
the ISWA 2008 official!

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

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On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> The review period for the ISWA 2008 ended successfully yesterday. 
> Valerie will be announcing that the ISWA is final, as in finally 
> done and finished. There has been a lot of work on this latest 
> symbol set. I'm proud of the work that we've done together.
>
> This could be the final symbol set for SignWriting. If not forever, 
> then at least the next few years. With the new character encoding 
> model, this may be the symbol set that will be used with Unicode, 
> but that's a different story.
>
> SignPuddle Online already uses the ISWA 2008. Just last week I 
> finished a new desktop version of the PocketPuddle called the 
> PersonalPuddle for Windows and Mac. The installation has been 
> greatly simplified: just unzip and start the application. It works 
> the same as SignPuddle Online, except it doesn't require an Internet 
> connection. With the new SignPuddle export function, it is possible 
> to get a local copy of any of the online puddles to use offline at 
> any time.
>
> The PersonalPuddle is available for $100, the same price as the 
> PocketPuddle. Except for the rest of this month, the price has been 
> cut in half to $50 to celebrate the release of the ISWA 2008 Final.
>
> For the PocketPuddle users, they will be offered the PersonalPuddle 
> at not cost. They can contact me directly if they would like help 
> converting their existing IMWA data over to the ISWA.
>
> I am finishing the IMWA Conversion document and code. It will be 
> ready in the next couple of days.
>
> Let's all congratulate Valerie on her amazing work. This is a 
> historic day and I'm glad I was a part.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve

From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:31:00 -0700
Subject: [sw-l] ANNOUNCING A NEW PUDDLE PRODUCT!

SignWriting List
October 21, 2008

NEW SPECIAL FEATURE on SignWriting.org!

Go to:
http://www.SignWriting.org

ANNOUNCING A NEW PUDDLE PRODUCT

The PersonalPuddle: SignPuddle Desktop Software
Write Sign Languages in SignWriting
....directly on your computer desktop...
....with or without an internet connection...

For Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & 10.5 Leopard.
For Windows 95 through Vista.
Linux version possible.

You can download the software directly, or request a CD Package sent 
through postal mail.

SPECIAL OFFER: In celebration of the new International SignWriting 
Alphabet (ISWA 2008), which became the official SignWriting symbolset 
on October 20th, 2008, we are offering the new PersonalPuddle software 
for half price! This special celebration discount will only last until 
November 1, 2008....To order, go to the SignWriting Shop: http://www.SignWriting.org/shop

Questions? Post your questions to the List... ENJOY!! Steve and 
Val ;-)

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