ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle

Thu Oct 30 19:02:13 UTC 2008

SignWriting List
October 30, 2008

Hello Ingvild!
Thank you for this message and question. Great to hear from you again...

Your Norwegian PocketPuddles can be updated later, with the new  
PersonalPuddle software installed...so later we can talk about doing  
that for you...The new PocketPuddle software provides several new and  
improved features over the old PocketPuddle:

1. The PersonalPuddle uses the new International SignWriting Alphabet  
(ISWA 2008).

2. The PersonalPuddle gives you a way to import a complete SignPuddle  
Online, into your PersonalPuddle. This means you could bring in files  
from Saudi Arabia, Spain, Germany and the US and place them all on  
your PersonalPuddle, and copy signs between your files on your  
PersonalPuddle.

One new feature Steve is working on for later in 2008:
3. Importing different user interfaces in different languages...you  
will be able to import the Norwegian User Interface, with all the  
Norwegian icons, and also the German and English user interfaces, and  
possibly switch between the different user interfaces in different  
languages...that will be very useful.

And a new feature that has to wait until 2009:
4. Uploading your work on your PersonalPuddle to an Online area, where  
your work can be shared with other people on the web...This feature  
will not be ready until 2009, but it is on our To-Do List....

Steve is working on the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin right now...so  
there are too many projects it seems...

But I predict...once these new features above are in the  
PersonalPuddle, that having a SignPuddle Desktop version of the  
software will become popular and I am hoping, with the right  
documentation, that it will increase our SignWriting users....

The interchange between offline and online will be invaluable...

So we are very blessed with what we have right now, and we will keep  
you informed of course...

Thanks for your suggestion -

Hope all is going well in Norway!

Val ;-)

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On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Ingvild Roald wrote:

> Thank you, Steve and Valerie,
>
> for your huge work on this. Now we will have a great tool for future  
> use, and hopefully this will help spred the good message even further.
>
> As for the personal and pocket puddles: I understand that it will be  
> possible to import from netbased puddles to these local puddles.  
> Will the opposite also be true: that after working offline, it will  
> be possible to export the work to an online puddle? This would be  
> greatly appreciated,
>
> Ingvild
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:59:40 +0100
> > From: duncanjonathan at yahoo.ca
> > To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [sw-l] ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle
> >
> > Hi Steve and Val,
> > A belated congratulations on the ISWA 2008 and all the hard work.
> > Many have already shared their feelings about this great piece of  
> work.
> > I too share their feelings and may it be used by generations to come
> > world wide.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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