Choose from a variety of industry associations and their mailing lists that focus on subjects such as International Software Development, Multilingual Testing, Multiplatform Localization, including Java and Web content. Many interest groups such as the Bay Area Computer Human Interaction (BayCHI), the Intl Macintosh Users Group (IMUG), the Bay Area Forum For Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), SDForum, the Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs (SVASE) and the Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network (VSVN) are located in Silicon Valley, California, others such as IWIPS have headquarters outside the USA. TGP Consulting is associated with many of these industry organizations that have often hosted TGP presentations.
AMTA
AMTA is the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. For information on paper submission for the biennial conference visit http://www.amtaweb.org
Bay Area Computer Human Interaction (BayCHI)
BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on
Computer-Human Interaction, brings together systems designers, human factors engineers,
computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, and users from throughout the Bay
Area to hear and to exchange ideas about computer-human interaction and about the design
and evaluation of user interfaces. BayCHI InfoLine at (408) 235-9244
baychi@baychi.org
http://www.baychi.org
Bay Area Forum For Women Entrepreneurs (FWE)
FWE's mission is to accelerate women's
opportunities to start, manage and invest in market-leading companies. FWE
offers innovative programs, access to top-tier funding sources and a
collaborative online community that accelerates women entrepreneurs' ability to
launch and build world-class companies. Headquartered in
Silicon Valley California, it now has several chapters in other geographies.
http://www.fwe.org
Commercial Service, Department of Commerce (DOC)
A network of over 190 offices worldwide, including commercial sections in US Embassies
and Consulates, US Trade Centers, and US Export Assistance Centers. There is a DOC
Commercial Service Branch office in San Francisco and the Santa Clara (CA) District
office. DOC services include: collecting Int'l marketing research data, different business
practices data, legal requirements data, shipping and custom issues information, payment
issues and business disputes resolution counseling. Market research tools include:
National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) on CD-ROM, and Customized Market Analysis (CMA) costing
from US$800 to $3,000. Promotional tools include: Commercial News USA (CNUSA), Agent
Distributor Service (ADS), Gold Key Service (GKS), and Int'l Company Profile (ICP). Trade
events include: Foreign Buyer Program, Certified Trade Shows, Catalog Shows, and Trade
Missions.
http://www.doc.gov
DBF, La French Connection de la Silicon Valley
Association of French-speaking Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, developers and executives.
It holds monthly meetings at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, 1001 Marshall Street,
Redwood City, (CA) on the first Monday of each month.
http://www.softway.com
Enterprise Ireland
As of July 1998, the Irish Trade Board changed it's name to Enterprise
Ireland. Their mission is to help clients in Irish Industry to build competitive
advantage, profitably sales, exports and sustainable employment. They have three
US offices as follows:
Ireland House:
345 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY
10154-0037 USA
phone: (212) 371-3600
fax: (212) 371-6398
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com
Silicon Valley Office:
51 East Campbell Avenue, Suite 106a/b, Campbell, CA 95008 USA
phone: (408) 370 6190
fax: (408) 370 6195
Boston Office:
35 Corporate Drive, 4th Floor, Burlington, MA 01803 USA
phone: (781) 685-4813
fax: (781) 685-4709
EUROPA
EUROPA is a WWW-server offering information on the European Union's goals and policies.
EUROPA is a common endeavor of the European Union's institutions, run by the European
Commission. It contains official documents from the Union, its political agenda,
statistics, publications, etc.
http://europa.eu.int/index.htm
International Business Forum (IBForum)
Organizes monthly presentations by industry experts and leaders in international
marketing and hi-tech topics. Meetings are at Ming's Villa Restaurant in Palo Alto, (CA)
on the second Thursday of the month . Call for a schedule of future presentations.
Reservations are required.
IBFORUM, P.O.Box 50399, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
phone: (650) 562-1740
email: IBForum@aol.com
International Macintosh User Group (IMUG)
IMUG is a group of users and designers of multilingual computer systems, located in
Silicon Valley. IMUG started as a Macintosh user group, but it has extended its focus to
multilingual solutions on other platforms, such as Windows and Unix. IMUG holds monthly
meetings at Apple Computer, R&D Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, (CA) on the third
Thursday of each month. IMUG publishes a monthly newsletter. TGP is a member of
IMUG and has a link in
their website.
For general information about IMUG, contact Roger Sherman at:
Work phone: +1 (650) 859-5981
email: sherman@sri.com
http://www.imug.org/
International Webmasters Association (IWA)
Language Centre Professional organization for Webmasters. It works in conjunction with
the W3C, major corporations (Microsoft, Netscape,
Earthlink, to name just a few), and professional Webmasters. IWA Language Centre focuses
on making the Internet truly global, a concept that will be made much easier once HTML 4.0
is finalized with W3C's adoption of the Unicode 2.0 standard.
http://www.iwanet.org/languagecentre
IWIPS
IWIPS 2003: the 5th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems. IWIPS 2003 will take place in the City of Berlin on July 17-19, 2003. Launched in 1999, IWIPS is a networking centre for practitioners, academics and government staff engaged in the internationalisation and localisation of computer interfaces and other products: http://www.iwips2002.org/IWIPS2003.html
SDForum
SDForum (Software Development Forum) is a member-governed, independent, non-profit organization providing an
active connection to the Silicon Valley community. It has many special interest groups:
Business Operations SIG, Windows SIG, Java SIG, Unix SIG, Internet SIG, Visual Basic
SIG-Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Marketing SIG, Macintosh SIG, SIA SIG (Student/Industry Alliance), International Software SIG, Client/Server SIG,
Multimedia SIG.
The Center for Software Development
111 West St. John, Suite 200, San Jose, CA 95113 USA
phone: (408) 289-8378
http://www.sdforum.org
Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs (SVASE)
The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs (formerly the
Bay Area Association of Entrepreneurial Software Engineers) is dedicated to catalyzing the
launch of successful software businesses. SVASE organizes monthly meetings. For information refer to their website: http://www.svase.org/
Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network (VSVN)
VSVN is devoted to the development and support of
entrepreneurship. It organizes monthly events and mentoring programs. For
information refer to their website:
http://www.vsvn.org
