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Hi SignWriting List, The year 2020 is turning out to be a great year of change for SignWriting. First off, if you know anything about Wikimedia or Wikipedia, please add your support to an individual grant I'm applying for to create the two-dimensional font. The community review is open until March 16th. Thanks! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/slevinski/ASL_Wikipedia_2-D_Font_Development_for_SignWriting For 16 years, I was blessed to be able to work with Valerie Sutton through the Center for Sutton Movement Writing non-profit as a paid consultant. Unfortunately, excessive government paperwork and fundraising issues became a burden. We have closed the non-profit portion of the organization and the Center for Sutton Movement in now an all volunteer organization without a checking account. I'm still blessed because I still get to continue to collaborate with Valerie Sutton into the future. I believe in SignWriting and I think our 13 websites are worth preserving and maintaining. To keep them up, I have assumed full responsibility for the financial hosting of the server. I'm happy to say that the current server costs are covered by the Patreon campaign I started last year. I plan to keep working with SignWriting on a part-time basis. I will have office hours on Saturday, central standard time. * 7:30 am Gitter Public Chat * 9am YouTube Live * 10:30 am Chat with Val * 1pm Server and Development In 3 weeks, chances are good that I may start a full-time job outside of SignWriting. These three weeks are very important because I need to rebuild the current SignWriting Server that hosts all of our websites. We will have a Simple SignWriting Server that only sends files without any server processing. We will have a Legacy SignWriting Server that supports PHP for SignPuddle 2 and SignPuddle 3 and others. Once the two new servers are built and configured, I'll shut down the current SignWriting Server. This will make sure the websites are up, stable, and running for the next few years. The year 2020 is a year of transitions, new directions, and letting go. The new direction is to embrace JavaScript for both the browser and the server with node. The standards are solid and I have several useful packages to share that are fully documented with online training available. Once I have the first three packages fully complete, I will start the react component library. Rather than trying to create a mutli-user platform for SignWriting, I'm going to focus on the foundation and offer tools to other developers so that they can use and create with SignWriting for their own websites and apps. The YouTube station will be called the SignWriting Stream. I will show, teach, and demo the Sutton SignWriting resources we've put together. The first episode is this Saturday. So far the channel is empty. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXu4AXlG0rXFtk_5SzumDow Let me know if you have any questions, ideas, or concerns. Regards, -Steve https://patreon.com/signwriting ________________________________________________ SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] SignWriting List Archives & Home Page http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1