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Hi Val, Erika, Charles, Stefan, Maria, and others, Thanks for the Birthday wishes. I enjoyed collaborating with everyone in 2012 and all the years before. I look forward to 2013 with great hope and anticipation. The ASL Wikipedia project is a spearhead for SignWriting text. For some minority languages, a Wikipedia is the largest collection of text for that language. I'm confident this will be true for some sign languages as well. This year, we will complete the infrastructure and I'm hoping that Wikimedia will officially accept request for sign language projects. I promised Val a technical report. I have the first half finished. I'd like to send it to the list. The overview is on SignPuddle.com http://signpuddle.com The efforts to standardize SignWriting continues. The character encoding is covered in draft-slevinski-signwriting-text. A technical document and a companion to the Modern SignWriting (MSW) theory and example document. The first public draft of MSW was released one year ago. The character encoding has been stable since release. Happy Anniversary. The RFC Editor is currently finding reviewers with the intention of publishing my Internet Draft as an RFC through the Independent Submission Editor model (RFC 6548). Our server side fonts are fully developed with PNG and SVG. Server side fonts will always be available for platforms that do not support client side fonts for SignWriting. Our first release of a client side font should be available later this year. I'm hopeful that the few remaining issues will be settled soon. Imagine, viewing SignWriting in an office suite without special programming. Many thanks and encouragement to Eduardo Trápani. For the SignWriting Icon Server, character and image processing is fully developed. I am currently working on the API to support public queries. I'll prepare a demo to explain when it is functional. The SignWriting Icon Client is desperately needed. A modern editor for the modern character encoding will complete the offering. This is the year. Happy New Year to everyone, -Steve