Global Talk

The Silicon Valley chapter has published “So, What is Linguistic Quality?” by Francoise Spurling of Rubric, in the May, 2007 issue of the Connection newsletter: http://www.stc-siliconvalley.org/newsletter/HTML/articles/spurling-linguistic-quality.htm

ITC SIG member Huiping Iler published the article “It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website” in Digital Web magazine in January, 2007. Thanks to Karen Mardahl for the link.

Berlin. June 17 to 19, 2007. http://www.localizationworld.com

Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. March 20 to 22, 2007. “Out of Asia” theme with sessions on various aspects of doing business in Asia and localization business in general. http://www.localizationworld.com/lwshang2007/program.htm

GALA and California State University, Chico. June 12 to 14. Chico, California. Details are posted for the April, 2007 offering.

Localization Certification Program and Localization Project Management Certification. GALA and California State University, Chico.

45 hours of self-paced, online instruction with 3 day hands-on workshop, Localization Certification Exam.

April 25 to 27, 2007 in Marseille, France and June 12 to 14, Chico, California. http://rce.csuchico.edu/localize/

Thanks to Rhonda Bracey for the link to a January 24, 2007 article by Pamela Slim, “How not to be a cultural knucklehead in a global business world.” The comments are worthwhile reading too.

Karen Mardahl has sent these links to Chinese and Japanese podcasts available for learning those languages.

http://www.chinesepod.com/ and http://japanesepod101.com/

These were found on a blog by a Chinese to English translator, which may be of interest for other posts too.

STC ITC SIG localization lead Aki Ito completes his term as chair of GALA on December 31.

The members of the 2007 GALA Board and their positions are:

Chair
Stephen Ryan, Moravia Worldwide

Vice Chair
Kim Harris, text & form

Treasurer
Christiane Bernier, Lionbridge

Secretary
Matthias Caesar, Locatech

Member-at-Large
Arancha Caballero, TSG (Translation Services Glotas)

Aki continues his work as a liaison between STC and GALA.

A consortium is forming to encourage quality research, publication and creation of an international network of academics who exchange ideas in related fields of design. You can read about the consortium in Design Matters.