Sign Writing Linguistics Conference

Mon Sep 1 02:00:39 UTC 2008

SignWriting List
August 31, 2008

Hello Charles, Maria, and Everyone -

Oh yes...I would be happy to work with you on preparing a web-based  
conference, and I would be glad to learn how to use Webcast equipment.  
That would be best for me personally in many ways, and even though a  
web-based conference might cost us some money, it could actually save  
us all money by cutting down on traveling costs, hotel costs and so  
forth...so Charles, I would be very happy to work with you on this new  
idea...

Right now I am having group conversations free on my computer with  
Skype. The other day I was honored with a Skype call from a group of  
Deaf people and Ron Dettloff, from the Deaf Church in Michigan. It was  
on a Sunday, and I assume it was after their church service, and they  
all gathered around the computer in the church office, and called me  
on Skype...I met around 5 Deaf people...they all introduced  
themselves, asked me if I was Deaf or hearing, and we discussed the  
differences between Skype and videophones...all in all I really  
enjoyed meeting the group and felt really warm afterwards...it was as  
if I had traveled to Michigan to meet them all - a wonderful  
experience! Thanks to all who call me on Skype!

And thanks too, to Andre in French-Canada, and others, who have called  
me on videophones...That too is a wonderful experience. It feels as if  
people are sitting right in your living room...quite amazing...

So taking that one step further, obviously video conferencing and web  
conferencing can be a successful way of communicating and since we  
already have SignWriting web sites and our own server, there is no  
reason why we can't take that one step further and have a call for  
papers online, related to one topic, such as SignWriting and  
Linguistics...

I would suggest doing our first SignWriting Web Conference in  
2009...perhaps Fall, 2009?

This Fall, in 2008, Steve and I are finishing our new software and  
finishing releasing the official ISWA, plus providing the backup  
documentation necessary to make sure everyone can learn the new  
software and symbols with good instruction materials. We also need to  
finish our Children's stories, such as Snow White and Mother Goose  
Rhymes, and the writing of Deaf History articles which Charles is  
writing....

By that time, it will be January 2009, and a new year will be before  
us...

Val ;-)

On Aug 31, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Dear everybody,
>
> If anyone wishes to put together a web-based conference who actually  
> has the connection to Webcast equipment, I'd be glad to  
> participate.  In this day's world, such an international conference  
> might really catch attention.
>
> Charles
>
>
> MARIA AZZOPARDI <maria.azzopardi at um.edu.mt> wrote:
> If you hold a conference on the internet, it would make things so much
> easier for us here, far far away in Malta (and I'm sure for many other
> Europeans actually)! Sorry Charles we didn't respond to your email  
> about
> the conference, it really would have been impossible for us to attend
> though. Thank you for your effort in trying to get all the SignWriters
> scattered all over the globe together.
> Maria
>
>
> > SignWriting List
> > August 27, 2008
> >
> > Hello Charles -
> > I am so sorry about this...I appreciate all of your efforts, which
> > were considerable I know and I do feel badly...please forgive all of
> > our hectic and confused lives...
> >
> > Maybe we could hold a conference on the internet...I know there are
> > some groups that do that, and it does not require any hotel down
> > payments...
> >
> > Gallaudet is an important University in the history of the  
> Deaf...so I
> > can really understand why you wanted to have the conference there,  
> and
> > maybe it can happen someday...
> >
> > Thank you for your wonderful work on the Deaf history article  
> about de
> > L'Eppe for the ASL Encyclopedia...I hope to post the video clips for
> > that document on the web this weekend and then we can enjoy  
> sharing it
> > with the List next week...
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Charles Butler wrote:
> >> Although I heard originally from about 10 of you interested in
> >> holding a SignWriting Linguistics Conference at Gallaudet  
> University
> >> in Washington, DC, October of 2008 or October of 2009, I have
> >> received none since I asked for a deposit on that proposal of $100
> >> to be able to secure a space at the hotel.
> >>
> >> With that being the case, we are holding off until we have
> >> sufficient interest and support to do so. I am not sufficiently
> >> employed to underwrite the deposit on this effort alone.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your interest,
> >>
> >> Charles R. Butler, III
> >
> >
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