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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Jan 15, 2002 3:17 am Subject: Good news about SignBank 2002 ;-) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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SignWriting List January 14, 2002 My Dear Friends! I am soooo happy tonight...I have worked out an understanding with FileMaker Corporation, about our new SignBank 2002 program, the SignWriting Online Dictionary, which is designed in FileMaker. We are working out publicity plans, with the hopes that an official announcement about SignBank 2002, coming jointly from FileMaker Corporation and the Center for Sutton Movement Writing, will be made in the Fall, 2002. There is much to be done with beta testing, programming and data entry all year, and then, when it is ready, FileMaker will help us donate the program to schools with deaf students around the world...They are equally as excited as I am, because even though FileMaker Pro is usually used for small businesses, they would like to reach out to Deaf people and other groups too. It is rare for them to have that opportunity...So we are helping each other... This does not mean that we are getting money from FileMaker. We are not. FileMaker Corporation does not donate money to nonprofits. But they are donating their software to us, plus technical development help on publishing the database on the web, plus joint publicity. And in time, they may offer a version of SignBank to all FileMaker users...but that is a long time from now..... Right now, we have much work to do, to get a working version of SignBank. I hope to send off the beta test versions of SignBank to the beta testers next week....five copies to Albuquerque to Cecilia Flood and her team of teachers at Hodgin Elementary School, a copy to Stuart Thiessen to test it with the Deaf Community in Des Moines, Iowa, a copy to Charles Butler to try to use it for his four language dictionary, and there are three other beta testers in other countries...They have already seen it, and have already given me a wealth of advice. I hope to implement changes they have suggested in February...so I will be working on SignBank all year - an exciting year! We have our annual Board Meeting on Sunday, January 20th (just a few days from now)...I will tell you all about the meeting next week... Wish you all could be with us this Sunday! Many blessings - -- Val ;-) Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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