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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Oct 22, 1999 2:56 am Subject: Email Letters of Support | |
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October 21, 1999 6:25 pm Dear SignWriting List Members: At my desk, I have a large picture window looking east...towards the California desert. It was hot today. We have a desert wind called a Santa Ana wind, and you can see the dust flying out across the desert, with the moon starting to rise...it is absolutely beautiful :-) So I am sharing this beautiful California evening with you..... Today was a very special day. Qualcomm decided not to review our grant until mid-November. I was glad, because they hadn't had time to read the proposal or look at our web site yet. They had never heard of SignWriting, even though one of their employees is Richard Gleaves, the programmer and designer of SignWriter 4.3 in MS-DOS! Qualcomm is a very large company, with many buildings, and I guess employees can get lost in the maze of talented programmers :-) I pointed out to them that one of their employees was the programmer that created a program used all over the world.....so they asked for a letter of recommendation from Richard.... So I wrote to Richard and asked him to send the Corporate Office a letter of recommendation on our behalf. Of course he said yes....he is a good friend. So I have a month's time to supply them with more information...and so goes the art of collecting funding!! If there is anyone on the SignWriting List who would be willing to write a letter of recommendation, stating that you are using SignWriter 4.3, and you are anxiously awaiting SignWriter 5.0, and that you feel it should be funded because...... I would be most grateful! You can send it as an email message to my private email address... Valerie Sutton If I receive some email messages of support, I would like to collect them and place them inside the grant requests that I mail to foundations, including Qualcomm. I plan to mail to around 20 different foundations - Many thanks in advance - Val ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite...Lessons Online https://www.SignWriting.org SignBankSite...Databases Online https://www.SignBank.org Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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