Online Resources
Useful information for GILT professionals, recommended by IMUG members
GALA - the Globalization and Localization Association
GALA is an association of companies in the translation and localization sector, providing resources, education, ideas and research to enhance the power and performance of the translation and localization sector. GALA local networking events, livestreams, conferences and other events are popular with IMUG members.
Multilingual Computing
Multilingual Computing magazine, launched in 1987 by IMUG co-founder Seth Schneider, continues to be a must-read for professionals in our fields. The Multilingual website, the paper and digital Multilingual magazine, e-newsletters, and social media presence offer the latest news, views, and other resources. IMUG was profiled in on page 7 of the October/November 2015 issue.
Unicode Consortium
IMUG members have been involved in the development of the Unicode Standard and the Unicode Locales (CLDR) from the beginning. The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language by specifying standards that serve as the foundation of software internationalization.
Machine Translate Foundation
IMUG members are helping to build this organization focused on open resources and community for machine translation. Open-source and open-collaboration, the foundation offers neutral resources including a website, a subreddit, a monthly newsletter, and free online and offline events with no sales pitches.
Wikipedia
IMUG members have contributed to Wikipedia from the begining on these and many other relevant topics:
IMUG members are invited to submit information on websites that may be useful to the group. First priority will be given to non-profit sites with which IMUG members are associated as volunteers. Submissions from non-members or offers of "link exchanges" will NOT be considered. Send all submissions via e-mail.
See also: Professional training and events recommended by IMUG members.
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