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STC members in the Philippines are in the process of forming a chapter based in the city of Taguig. To get in touch with the provisional chapter leaders, visit http://www.stc.org/membership/chapterSearch01.asp and search by country.

Call for Papers, tcworld Localization Track at the 2007 tekom conference. 7-9 November in Wiesbaden, Germany. Deadline for submissions: 4 May 2007.

GALA is cooperating with tekom to organize the tcworld Localization Track for the tekom annual conference and trade fair.

You are cordially invited to submit a presentation or workshop proposal for the tcworld Localization Track. The program will cover high level management, practical applications, and cultural or regional issues in the field of translation and localization. Read the call for papers (MS Word document). Download the application form (MS Word document).

Yves Savourel has announced that ITS, the Internationalization Tag Set has been published as a W3C Recommendation. W3C has posted a press release and the  ITS specification is posted.

ITS is a set of attributes and elements that are designed to help the internationalization and the localization of XML material. For example, the same way you can use [p xml:lang=”es”] to specify a the content of the “p” element is in Spanish, you can now use [p its:translate=”no”] to indicate the content of the element should not be translated (where square brackets have replaced angle brackets).

You can find examples and descriptions of ITS features in the specification document, and in some of the articles and presentation slides listed on the ITS Work Group page.

The International Technical Communication SIG is holding its first election for officers and to approve the bylaws. Members will receive the slate and voting instructions very soon. The proposed bylaws have been posted here. As soon as the election is over we’ll announce the new ITC SIG leaders.