2005 newsletter, January to November, International Technical Communication Special Interest Group, Society for Technical Communication. The December 2005 news is on the ITC SIG website and will be in the 2006 newsletter.

Feature articles published in 2005

In 2005 the International Technical Communication SIG published and linked to the feature articles listed here by month, from latest to earliest. We also published the Localization Reader.

Labeling and translation requirements in different countries. Summarized from the ITC SIG list with additional research. Posted December 2005.

Reducing Translation Costs, by John Brewer, Member, Huntsville North Alabama chapter. Posted December, 2005.

Managing multiple language documents, summarized from the ITC SIG list, October, 2005.

Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator, by Sandra Bologna, Translation Project Manager, WTB Language Group, Windsor, Ontario. Reprinted from the June 2005 newsletter of the Alberta Chapter STC, in Connection, newsletter of the Silicon Valley Chapter STC, Part 1, August, 2005. Part 2, September 2005. Part 3, October 2005. Posted 2005.

STC intercom Nov 2004 issue had an article by Becky Johnston, "Editing
Translated HTML Files," by Becky Johnston in Intercom, November 2004.
http://www.stc.org/intercom/pdfs/2004/2004011_17-20.pdf (STC members only). Posted July 2005.

Evaluation of an XML-based Content Management System in the translation process. by Peter Argondizzo. Posted May 2005.

International virtual office factors, by Jeff Staples. Posted April 2005.

International virtual office ideas, by Jeff Stapes. Posted April 2005.

Localization--the business value. Current trends column, Sita Bhatt, editor. Indus newsletter of the India Chapter of  STC. January/February 2005. http://stc-india.org/indus/index.htm. Follow the link for the archives if needed. Posted March 2005.

Is Localization of a Product Essential to Ensure Usability and Customer Satisfaction? by David Dick, Editor, Usability Interface. February 2005 issue. Posted March 2005.

How to "proof" a translation, by Roger Ribert. Posted February 2005.

ITC SIG news 2005 January to September 2005

Work begun on implementing strategic plan

October 14. The ITC SIG was rechartered by the STC Board in May. At that time the Board approved the strategic plan of the SIG. The plan calls for developing profiles of the state of the art in technical communication in countries and regions around the world. This work has started, and the profiles will be published on the TC worldwide page. The plan also calls for regular publication of articles, and several are in process now.

International Technical Communication SIG rechartered

July 2. The ITC SIG was rechartered at the May, 2005 meeting of the STC Board. Thank you to the members who participated in the rechartering. The ITC SIG plan, included in the rechartering report, includes development of this site and the Localization Reader. A list of all the STC communities that have been rechartered will be posted soon on the STC website. The minutes of the May Board meeting at which our rechartering occurred are posted on http://www.stc.org/chapterResources.asp.

Profiles of ITC SIG leaders Spring 2005

Aki Ito, Translation and Localization Lead in the ITC SIG, is a member of the Twin Cities chapter of STC. Aki is Vice President of Global Technical Communication at Prisma International. Previous positions include Translation Lead at Lionbridge (Boulder, Colorado), Japanese Interpreter at Colorado Rockies (Denver, Colorado), and Account Executive at Dell Computer (Austin, Texas). Aki is the Vice Chairperson of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA, described on the Related Organizations page). Aki is ITC SIG liaison to Gala. Aki has an MBA from Texas A&M University and a BA in International Relations from Tokyo International University. For more information about Aki, visit http://www.prisma.com/main.php?position=T2B.

Namrata (Nams) Malik, ITC SIG liaison to India, Japan and Latin America, is a member of the Northeastern Ohio chapter of STC and maintains the jobs section of the chapter website, with another chapter member. Nams works at Rockwell Automation in Cleveland, Ohio. She did her undergraduate work (Bachelor in Science and Diploma in Systems Management) in India and graduated in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master of Arts in Professional Writing, majoring in technical communication.

Membership news October through December 2005

January 6. In December the ITC SIG gained 59 members. The SIG now has 1170 members. As of December 31 there are 17,176 members in STC.

In October and November the ITC SIG gained 107 new members. As of November 30, the ITC SIG had 1120 members and STC had 16,976 members.

Membership news January to November 2005

In October and November the ITC SIG gained 107 new members. As of November 30, the ITC SIG had 1120 members and STC had 16,976 members.

As of September 30, the ITC SIG had 1048 members, an increase over 997 on July 31. In July the SIG gained 11 members; in August, 21 members, and in September 32 new members joined. Our new members represent the following countries: Australia (1); Belgium (1); Bulgaria (1); Canada (5); China (1); India (1); Ireland (1); Japan (1); United Kingdom (2); USA (50).

As of June 30, the ITC SIG had 987 members, with 26 new members representing the following countries: Canada (4); India (1); Poland (1); United Kingdom (1); USA (19).

As of May 31, the ITC SIG had 961 members. In May the SIG gained 63 new members, represesenting the following countries: Belgium (1); Canada (3); France (3); India (3); Ireland (1); Japan (1); Sweden (1); Taiwan (1); United Kingdom (1); USA (48).

As of April 30, the ITC SIG had 897 members. In April the SIG gained 46 new members, representing the following countries: Canada (10); Denmark (1); France (1); India (1); Japan (1); Philippines (1); South Korea (1); Sweden (1); USA (29).

As of March 31, the ITC SIG had 848 members. In March the ITC SIG gained 131 new members representing the following countries: Belgium (2), Canada (12), Finland (1), France (3), Germany (1), India (2), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Philippines (2), South Korea (1), Switzerland (1), United Kingdom (1), United States (101).

As of February 28, 2005 the ITC SIG had 1023 members. Each month members leave STC and the ITC SIG, while we also gain members. In February, 2005 the SIG gained 94 new members representing the following countries: Canada 10; Israel 2; Japan 1; Philippines 1; Sweden 1; United Kingdom 2; United States 77.

As of October 31, 2004 the ITC SIG membership count was 885 members. In January, 2005 the SIG gained 101 new members representing the following countries: Austria 2; Belgium 3; Canada 8; Finland 1; France 1; Germany 2; India 3; Ireland 1; Israel 6; Japan 2; Netherlands 1; New Zealand 1; United Kingdom 1; United States 69.

International Technical Communication SIG 2005 Annual Conference Progression, WE 3B, Monday 2:00 to 3:30 PM

The ITC SIG Progression facilitator is Leanne Logan, STC Fellow, Mid-South Chapter and a Founding Member of the ITC SIG of STC. Leanne has worked as a technical communicator in four countries. Progression table leaders and their topics are:

Global news

News from late December, 2005 has been posted in the collaborative Global Talk, http://stc-on.org/itc.

UK chapter conference report

December 1. The STC UK conference in Coventry took place November 19 and 20, 2005. On Saturday those attending learned about the DITA open source standard for technical documentation, about what it can do, about when to use it and, equally importantly, when not. The presenter, Alan Houser, sits on the DITA technical committee, and was an engaging and entertaining speaker for the 30 delegates.

Sunday saw 19 of us gather at Coventry University's wonderful Technopark conference facility for a fascinating day of exploring XML, including XSLT transitions, which was new and exciting territory for many of us. We all came away with new skillsets, and the confidence to explore further on our own.

World Usability Day

December 1. The first-ever World Usability Day was held November 3, 2005. This worldwide series of events, organized by The Usability Professionals' Association, promoted awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.

Events were planned in more than 70 cities in 35 countries. The types of events planned included: Participation by cabinet-level leaders in Italy, and many other important government officials around the world; An event at the Boston Museum of Science, featuring hands-on usability testing exhibits for children of all ages, to coincide with the opening of the Museum's new "Star Wars" exhibit; Author Ben Shneiderman's talk in Bremen on "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies;" Israeli usability experts going all over Israel with introductory presentations on usability in dozens of development organizations; Online conferences with well-known accessibility experts; Several cities in India offering events that focus on advances in usability which are key drivers in India's economic development; At Dartmouth College, a conference designed to help people understand how principles of usability can be applied to benefit all kinds of learners.

For more information visit www.WorldUsabilityDay.org.

European CM Summit

December 1. The first European CM (content mangement) Summit was planned for October 5 in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). The Summit was to be held in conjunction with ECMplaza 2005 (www.ecmplaza.com).The Summit was planned to open with a dinner and the kick-off of the CM Pros Benelux Chapter. After the kick-off CM Pros President Ann Rockley introduces Bob Boiko, author of the Content Management Bible and our first CM Pros President. Bob's presentation answers the question 'What does it mean to be a CM Pro?' Discussion follows of various content management subjects in roundtable sessions.

The third Trans European technical communication competition

December 1. The third Trans European techncial communication competition is being held this year. Last year the comeptition had entrants and judges from 10 countries.Entries are accepted in five languages: Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. The closing date for entries was 14 October 2005. If you would like know more about how the team runs the competition, there's an article in Tieline: http://www.stc.org/Tieline/issues/2005_0708.pdf. Information provided by Jennifer O'Neill.

STC Board votes to explore rejoining INTECOM

October 17. At the September STC Board meeting, the Board approved discussions with INTECOM on rejoining. For details please refer to the Board report, http://www.stc.org/contactBoard.asp.

France chapter meeting on DITA

October 13. On November 7, the France Chapter will have a special meeting in Paris, "DITA: Moving From Books to Topics," with Dr. JoAnn Hackos. Dr. Hackos will discuss the benefits of a DITA-based, topic-oriented approach and describe the components of the DITA architecture and how it facilitates the development of technical information. For further information, visit http://www.stcfrance.org/.

UK chapter conference and new website

October 7. The UK chapter of STC has moved to a new web address at www.stcuk.org. Please visit often to see the updated calendar of events and read the newsletters. The UK chapter will have another fun-filled one-day conference on Saturday 19th November 2005. After recent conferences in London and Manchester, the chapter will visit the British Midlands this time round, hosting the 19th November conference in the city of Coventry, conveniently located close to Birmingham airport. Visit the UK chapter website for details.

Lone Star STC Community meeting

September 1. On November 3, Devashish Saxena, Manager of Internet Marketing Services at Texas Instruments and Brian Hertz, Director of Strategic Business Development at SDL International, will present "Managing and implementing globalization technology at TI" at the Lone Star STC Community meeting. The website is http://www.stc-dfw.org/.

Transalpine chapter conference

August 15. Jang F.M. Graat, President of the TransAlpine Chapter, announces the upcoming 14th TransAlpine Chapter conference, September 28 to 30 in Berlin. Since this is a "geographically challenged" chapter (with 100 members dispersed over 5 countries), the six monthly meetings tend to be BIG: a one-day workshop and two days of presentations. This also means there are lots of conference attendees from outside the area.

For the 14th conference, the venue is exceptional: the brand new Canadian Embassy in Berlin. There is more than the venue to mark the Canadian connection: presenters Michael Priestley and Alice Jane Emanuel are both Canadians. This makes the chapter's international outlook on organizing conferences even clearer. The TransAlpine chapter hopes to see a lot of technical communicators from other parts of the world at this event. Since Germany is celebrating its Reunification Day on Monday, October 3, there will be lots of festivities in the weekend following the conference.

Jan Graat says, "We hope many members might combine an already planned trip to Europe with a visit to Berlin and our conference, or use the conference as an excuse for a European early autumn holiday." More information about the conference is available on the special website: www.stc-transalpine.org/conference.

Global e-learning paper available

August 5. Hezel Associates has released a new white paper "Developing a
Global E-Learning Program: From Conceptualization to Implementation."
The report is available at http://hezel.com/globalreport/. There are links also for a country study and introductions to regions.

Networks for Africa, Asia, and Australasia

On August 28 to 30, the International Telecommunications Society, Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference, held ICT Networks - Building Blocks for Economic Development. Perth, Western Australia. www.business.curtin.edu.au/its-conference. Papers were sought on the following themes:

News of STC in Europe

July 28. Jen O'Neill, ITC SIG liaison to Western Europe, has published "Running the Trans European Technical Communication Competition" in the July-August issue of Tieline, newsletter for STC leaders: http://www.stc.org/tieline/tie050708/oneill.htm.

Special issue on outsourcing

July 2. A special issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication focusing on "Examining International Outsourcing: Perspectives, Practices, and Projections" is being prepared. Abstracts are due October 1, 2005. Contact Kirk St.Amant, Guest Editor, kirk.st-amant@ttu.edu.

Digital Information Commons for Africa

On May 25 to 27, the LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM), Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa held Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons. http://www.commons-sense.org. Participants from around Africa and the world planned to gather to strategise towards the realisation of an African Digital Information Commons.

This international event, carried out with a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), http://www.idrc.ca, was planned to encourage understanding of how alternative approaches to copyright and content-sharing, enabled by digital technologies and electronic networks, can be used in developing countries to enhance education and innovation.

The conference schedule opened the evening of 25 May with the launch of Creative Commons South Africa (ccSA) -- an alternative copyright licencing system by Creative Commons Chairperson Lawrence Lessig, Law Professor from Stanford University. The next two days featured keynote addresses, case studies and demonstrations by "information commons" pioneers from the US, Brazil, India and several African countries. Delegates planned to share experiences and become equipped with the tools needed to implement open content and other flexible copyright approaches to digital publishing.

Conference side events were to include a weblogging forum, a Creative Commons music-sharing workshop and, pre-conference, a mini "shodhyatra" initiated by Indian innovation activist Professor Anil Gupta, during which participants would visit ICT telecentres near Johannesburg.

Digital Design in Latin America

On April 8, 2005 Professor Arturo Montagu past away. Montagu was teaching at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (www.fadu.uba.ar) and was the Director of the Posgraduate Program of Digital Design (PADD) (http://www.fadu.uba.ar/posgrados/oferta/pro/pad/).

Montagu spent 40 years of his life working, teaching and researching about digital design. He started in this field ten years before Doug Engelbart created the mouse. He was the first president of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Grap which allowed the integration of research groups of South America and USA, Europe and Australia. Source: Sigia-l of ASIS&T.

United Kingdom Chapter STC conference

The United Kingdom Chapter of STC held a conference in Manchester the weekend of March 12, 2005. There were 28 delegates and four speakers. Topics included using FrameMaker and WebWorks software to produce user guides and online help from a single source, suitable for integrating into a translation workflow. Tedopres International in Holland presented insights into the use of Simplified Technical English.

Other topics were managing graphics in multilingual documentation (50 localizable graphics going into 15 languages; to be presented by Nick Rosenthal at the STC Annual Conference in May), and use of XML in documentation including recommended localization approaches and tools. The full program is on: http://www.stc-europe.org/uk/programme/programme.htm. Contributed by Nick Rosenthal.

European Standards Committee Learning Technology Workshop

March 2005. The European Standards Committee (CEN) launched the CEN/ISSS Learning Technology Workshop in February, 1999. The objectives are:

Visit the Learning Technology Standards Observatory at http://www.cen-ltso.net/Users/main.aspx. The site can be viewed in 11 different languages. You will find a calendar of meetings around Europe. For example, the TechDis meeting covering eLearning and accessibility in March, 2005 in York, England is listed at http://www.cen-ltso.net/Users/main.aspx?event=196. Source: Karen Mardahl, Nordic Chapter.

News of TCeurope

March 2005. TCeurope, the European umbrella organisation for technical documentation, was founded in Brussels on March 24, 2002. It has grown to represent technical writers and illustrators in seven European countries. Membership in TCeurope is open to the national society for technical communication of every internationally recognised European country. Visit www.tceurope.org  for information about the current and past activities of TCeurope.

The 5th European colloquium for user-friendly product information, Technical Documentation in the enlarged EU: First round-up on the organisational, technical and economic impacts, was held on March 14, 2005 in Brussels.

After the enlargement in May 2004, the EU has now 25 member states and 20 official languages (not taking into account 48 minority languages). TCeurope bring brought together stakeholders to discuss the questions: What does the enlargement of the EU mean in the context of Technical Communication and what are the challenges of the on-going internationalisation in general ? The industry has to find a way to make linguistic diversity compatible with efficiency within the set parameters of time, cost and human resources. 

The programme was:

Moderation: Dr. Hanna Risku (TCeurope / Donau-Universität Krems)
9:00 Dr. Hanna Risku (TCeurope / Donau-Universität Krems): 
Welcome and introduction
9:10 Jens Karsten (Federation of European Direct Selling Associations): 
Language requirements in EC law - A Consumers Perspective
9:30 Ian Fraser (European Commission, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry): 
Manufacturer's instructions - an essential part of the machine
10:00 Alfredo Spagna (President of European Union of Associations of Translation Companies): 
Defining translation quality at European level - the first European Quality Standard for Translation Service Providers
10:30 Coffee 
11:00 Josep Bonet-Heras (European Commission, Directorate General Translation): 
Twenty languages and counting: how Commission translators keep pace with an expanding Union 
11:30 Carla Caprioli / Jacques Degreves (European Commission, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry): 
Multilingual technical documentation on Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry's website: TRIS and TBT databasis
12:00 Marta Grané Franch (Termcat, Àrea d'Assessorament): 
Catalan: A language for technical documentation in Europe (The opportunities of multilinguism for non-official EU languages)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Rudy Tirry (country manager of Bowne Global Solutions Belgium ): 
Trends and technology in the globalization industry (an educated guess about what the future will bring to the world of localization)
14:00 Final Discussion

STC Trans European Competition

The STC chapters in Europe have run the STC Trans European competition for two years. Previously this was the France Chapter competition. In the 2004 competition the volunteers held no face-to-face meetings. All the work was done electronically. Entries are accepted in five languages. This annual activity has brought members throughout Europe closer together. Reported by Jen O Neill, February 2005.

Orange County chapter meeting, February 2005

On February 15, the topic of the Orange County STC  meeting was Working in Multinational Document Development Teams. STC Associate Fellow Brian McCaleb was the presenter. Find a report of the meeting in the newsletter of the Orange County chapter for March 2005, www.ocstc.org/pdf/ts032005.pdf. 

With "routine" documentation, Web content, and help-system development jobs being given to low-cost foreign suppliers, there is a requirement for someone to manage the quality, speed, and integrity of the finished product. The skills needed to work on or manage a multinational team are in demand. The presentation explored the characteristics, opportunities, and pitfalls associated with working over the Internet with geographically dispersed document development teams. The presentation included resources for learning the required skills and finding out more about how you can study and begin working as an international team member or leader.

Translation Automation User Society (TAUS)

February, 2005. The Localization Institute has formed the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS). Membership in TAUS is open to users of translation and localization services. Founding members include Autodesk, Cisco, Computer Associates, EMC Software Group, Océ Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Symantec and Watchguard. Please visit www.translationautomation.com to learn more about TAUS. Three round tables are scheduled for Spring, 2005 and will be listed on the Conferences and courses page of this (International Technical Communication Special Interest Group STC) web site until they are past.

Philadelphia Metro chapter meeting, January 2005

In January, 2005 the Philadelphia Metro chapter held its first online meeting, Where in the world is your project? The presenters discussed business etiquette in a global economy. There is a review on page 2 of the March/April 2005 newsletter, available in PDF on the chapter web site www.stcpmc.org. Click "Newsletter" in the left navigation.

STC news

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

October 18. Each year, STC offers scholarships to full-time graduate and undergraduate students pursuing careers in technical communication.

Four awards of $1,500 each will be granted for academic year 2006 to 2007. The application deadline is February 15, 2006. Application forms and instructions are available from the STC office, http://www.stc.org.

Two days dedicated to advancing your career: the STC Training Program

August 14. The STC Training Program is a new learning venue designed for today's professionals and scheduled for October 20 to 21. Plan to attend and enroll in one of the five, concurrent two-day courses covering information needed to advance your career in technical communication. The five two-day courses, described in detail at www.stc.org/training, cover the following subjects:

The STC Training Program will take place at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Crystal City, Virginia (near Washington, DC). Register by September 21, 2005, and the cost for STC members is $1,095 (with hotel, $1,295) and $1,255 for nonmembers (with hotel, $1,455). After September 21, costs increase $150. For information or to register, please visit www.stc.org.

International activities at 2005 STC Annual Conference

The STC Annual Conference will be held in Seattle, Washington, May  8 to 11, 2005.

The ITC SIG will have a table at the Welcome Reception on Sunday night, May 7 and a table at the networking luncheon. We have more than one table at the luncheon, so please find the ITC SIG tables and join ITC SIG Global Lead Carolyn Luttell in faciliating the conversation.

A special forum on The Globalization of STC will be held Monday from 5:00 to 6:30 PM, led by Jim Romano and Paula Berger. Please ask about the location when you arrive at the conference.

ITC SIG Global Lead Carolyn Luttrell is presenting "Developing Effective Role Play Exercises" in TE 8L Instructional Design Progression, Tuesday, May 10, 4:00 to 5:30 PM.

The International Technical Communication SIG Progression is session WE 3B, scheduled for Monday, May 9, 2:00 to 3:30 PM.

International Sessions as of April 3, 2005

MG 4Q Perspectives on Offshore Documentation Development
MG 6E Impact of Offshore Outsourcing
MG 6T Making Localization Work
MG 7A Offshoring
MG 8H Virtual Team
MG 10V Business Case for a Multilingual Content Management System

PD 2A Working Abroad

TE 6C Teaching and Practicing in the Global Village

TE 7AB Teaching and Learning in an International Environment

TT 3U Translation Memory

TT 4H Single-sourcing and Translation

TT 4R Image Management in Multilingual Documentation

WE 8P Developing Global English Writing Skills

UID 3F Plain Language Works (also should be retrieved by Information Design)

You can find the date and time for these sessions, and others of interest to you, on http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/session.search.asp.

STC 2005 Candidates for Second Vice President and Treasurer and bylaws changes

You will find information about two candidates for Second  Vice President at www.hoosierstc.org/newsletter/january2005.shtml, Society News in the left navigation. Information about a third candidate and a candidate for treasurer is posted on http://www.stcnymetro.org/. The links are on the home page of the New York Metro chapter site.

The advisory council for the Management SIG compiled a list of questions for the candidates for offices of Second Vice President and Treasurer of STC. The questions and answers are posted at: www.stcsig.org/mgt/electionResponses.htm. 

A simple explanation of the proposed changes to the STC Bylaws is found in the March 2005 issue of the newsletter of the Lone Star Community of STC. Visit http://www.stc-dfw.org/newsletter/current/index.htm. Click the link for Society Stockade, and then Changes to the STC Bylaws. If it is past March 2005, you will find the March issue in the archives.

STC will also post information on the Society's elections page.

Conferences and courses January to November 2005

November 19. UK chapter conference.Coventry. www.stcuk.org.

November 9 to 10. Tekom. European Information Development Conference. Wiesbaden, Germany. Call for papers: http://www.tekom.de/artikel/artikel_1268.html. Submit your paper to: cfp@tekom.de or to: u.wirtz@tekom.de. Includes presentations and workshops for the following expert forums: Online help; Localisation; XML; Usability; Content management; Terminology and Language technology.

November 7 .France Chapter STC. "DITA: Moving From Books to Topics," with Dr. JoAnn Hackos. Paris, France. http://www.stcfrance.org/.

November 7 to 11. LISA. Forum Europe 2005, "Succeeding in Global Markets." Zurich, Switzerland. Program: http://www.lisa.org/events/2005zurich/index.html. Workshops:
http://www.lisa.org/events/2005zurich/workshops/. Exhibits. http://www.lisa.org/events/2005zurich/index.html/exhib.

November 3 to 6. 5th International Conference on Plain Language. Plain Language Association International. Washington, DC.
www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/conferences/.

October 24 to 27. Localization World Seattle. Localization Institute. Seattle, Washington. www.localizationinstitute.com. The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is hosting an all-day workshop on advanced negotiations skills on October 24, 2005, at the Seattle World Trade Center, the day before the Localization World conference. GALA will also hold its third annual membership meeting on the preconference day of Localization World Seattle.
Registration for GALA workshop:
http://www.gala-global.org/index.php?action=view_event&id_event=7
GALA information posted August 2005.

October 20 to 21. STC Training Program. Crystal City, Virginia (near Washington, DC). Details on the ITC SIG and STC news page.

October 15 to 16. ASIST. European IA Summit: Building Communities. Brussels, Belgium. The focus of the first European Information Architecture (IA) Summit is on building the IA community in Europe.
http://www.euroia.org/. http://www.euroia.org/registration.html.

September 9 to 11. Monterey Institute of International Studies and Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation. "Professional Education of 21st Century Translators and Interpreters: an international conference."
http://gsti.miis.edu/conference/welcome.htm. Posted August 2005.

September 18 to 20. Project Managers Roundtable. Localization Institute. Lake Tahoe, California. www.localizationinstitute.com.

September 28 to 30. 14th TransAlpine Chapter STC conference. Berlin.

September 13 to 15. Localisation Research Centre. LRC-X, the 10th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference. "The Global Initiative for Local Computing." http://www.localisation.ie.

September 7 to 9. Twenty-eighth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC28). Unicode 4.1 - Multilingual Challenges and Solutions for 2006. Orlando.
http://www.global-conference.com/iuc28.

September 1 to September 4. IPSI-2005. Amsterdam, Holland.  One of the main topics of this conference is "E-education and E-business with Special Emphasis on Semantic Web and Web Datamining."
http://www.internetconferences.net/pescara2005/index.html.

September, date to be announced. Managing Global Websites. Localization Institute. San Francisco, California. www.localizationinstitute.com.

August 28 to 30. International Telecommunications Society, Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference. ICT Networks - Building Blocks for Economic Development. Perth, Western Australia. www.business.curtin.edu.au/its-conference.

July 27 to August 1. IPSI-2005. Pescara, Italy. One of the main topics of this conference is "E-education and E-business with Special Emphasis on Semantic Web and Web Datamining."
http://www.internetconferences.net/pescara2005/index.html.

June 29 to July 1. Internationalization Roundtable. Localization Institute. California. www.localizationinstitute.com.

June 27 to July 1. Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) conference. Bridging Cultures. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

July 7 to 9. 7th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems. Bridging Cultural Differences. Amsterdam. http://hcs.science.uva.nl/IWIPS2005/.

June 13 to 16. Fifth LRC Internationalisation and Localisation Summer School. Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland.

June 11. UK Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). One-day technical authoring conference. London. http://www.stc-europe.org/uk/programme/calendar.htm.

June 2. Translation Automation User Society round table for corporate users. Bonn, at Localization World. www.translationautomation.com.

May 31 to June 2. Localization World sponsored by Localization Institute and Multilingual Computing. Bonn, Germany. www.localizationworld.com/LWBonn2005/cfp.htm.

May 25 to 27. The LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM), Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons. http://www.commons-sense.org. Participants from around Africa and the world will gather to strategise towards the realisation of an African Digital Information Commons.

May 24. LISA Global Strategies Summit. Understanding Content Management and Global Content Management Systems. Boston. http://www.lisa.org/events/2005boston/workshops/workshop.html/ws4/overview.

May 10 to 14. Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference. Chiba, Japan. http://www2005.org/.

May 6 to 7. Multilingualism for Cultural Diversity and Participation of All in Cyberspace, Bamako, Mali,
http://www.privaterra.org/activities/wsis/blog/upcoming-wsis-events.html.

May 4 to 6. Global Knowledge Partnership Annual Meeting, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.globalknowledge.org/am/

April 28. Localization Project Management Seminar. Localization Institute. Santa Clara, California. http://www.localizationinstitute.com.

April 24 to 27. Localization Management Roundtable. Localization Institute. Santa Cruz, California. www.localizationinstitute.com.

April 21. Translation Automation User Society round table for corporate users. San Francisco. www.translationautomation.com.