The
Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP) announces merger with
Professional Association for Localization (PAL)
Dublin,
Ireland (12 May 2003) - The
Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP),
headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and the U.S.-based Professional
Association of Localization (PAL) have agreed to a merger. Both
organisations focus on the needs of individual localisation
professionals. The goal of the merger is to advance their shared
mission by combining each organisation's strengths and eliminating
organisational redundancies.
The
consolidated organisation will retain the name TILP. Current PAL
members have been offered free TILP membership for the balance of
the 2003 calendar year. TILP invited the current PAL officers to
join its leadership council. PAL president Suzanne Topping, vice
chairperson Marilyn Mason and treasurer Barbara Jarzyna have
accepted the invitation.
In
early 2003, PAL suggested the merger to TILP. The TILP leadership
council, represented by its CEO Reinhard Schäler, warmly welcomed
the overture. Both councils quickly agreed that, as a single entity,
the two organisations would be far more effective in meeting the
needs of its shared constituency.
IWIPS
2003: Where East Meets West
The
5th Annual International Workshop on Internationalisation of
Products and Systems
(IWIPS
2003)
is scheduled to take place in Berlin, Germany from 17-19 July. The
program will cover
internationalisation and localisation in reference to e-business and
web applications, case studies, usability, methods and processes,
mobile applications and design guidelines. Keynote
speakers are Bert
Esselink, Lionbridge, NL; Nancy
Hoft, Nancy Hoft Consulting, USA, and Pat
O’Sullivan, IBM, Ireland.
Early
registration rates available until 17.06.2003
Contact:
Kerstin
Röse or Pia
Honold or visit www.iwips2003.org for further details.
ELearnChina
Conference 2003
A world first in ELearning and
Education in China will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland from
21st-23rd July, 2003. The ELearnChina Conference
Entering the Chinese market place
is a complex move. This conference provides a forum on exchange of
market information not only on product and service requirements, but
on specialist market entrance requirements. If you are working in
any of these sectors you should seriously consider entering this
event in your diary. For more information, visit http://www.elearnchina.com
or email info@elearnchina.com.
Moravia
hands over Web solution to Toshiba Europe
Moravia,
a globalisation solutions provider, has completed the first
localisation phase of Toshiba Europe's corporate on-line content
into German, French, Spanish and Italian along with 10 additional
European languages.
Moravia delivered a customised Web
content localisation solution that started with an initial analysis
and progressed to enabling automated download, localisation and
testing of localised Web content prior to deployment. Toshiba had
previously outsourced the administration and localisation of their
Web sites to single-language vendors.
"Engineering
Global E-Commerce Sites" published
Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers has published "Engineering Global
E-Commerce
Sites: A Guide to Data
Capture, Content, and Transactions" by James Bean, CEO of
Relational Logistics Group of Phoenix, Arizona. The book is a
practitioner's guide to developing global e-commerce sites, focusing
on the design and engineering of Web forms for global data
collection and alignment with widely recognised international
standards, XML structures and XML vocabularies. The author describes
the globalisation problem, identifies common design errors, provides
a representative scenario, and introduces effective solutions and
techniques. Structured around a practical, "real-world"
theme, the book is written for the hands-on practitioner in any mid-
to large-sized company engaging in international e-commerce.
Bowne
adjusts Asian operations
Bowne
Global Solutions (BGS) has recently adjusted operations in
one of its Asian offices due to SARS. In order to deal with the SARS
threat and employee concerns while still maintaining productivity,
the Taipei, Taiwan, office put a new plan into effect on May 18. The
plan involves setting up shifts - rotating staff on a weekly basis -
to minimise their exposure to public transportation and to ensure
that teams are accustomed to working remotely so that the office can
function effectively if the building has to be shut down in the
future.
