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Jeremy Whipple
Here is an update on the Board's activities last month, together with reports from our membership secretary and committee chairs.
Topics discussed by the directors at the meeting and in their ongoing exchange of e-mail included the following:
1. Use of JAT logo etc. by corporations
JAT should have an explicit "acceptable use" policy for the medallions it invites members to use. This should be announced on JAT-list and included on the page whence the medallions are downloaded. Richard Thieme will undertake to work with Ray Roman in drawing up such a policy.
2. Webcam coverage of JAT meetings
The directors are not presently undertaking to implement this suggestion (from member Seth Reames) but think it deserves further consideration.
3. Japanese version of by-laws
The Japanese translation of the JAT by-laws is approaching completion.
4. Website and Bulletin
The directors discussed various matters relating to the JAT website and the switch from an e-mail to a website (HTML) Bulletin. Please refer to the reports below from the Publications and Website Committees for some further details.
5. Client education
One planned addition to the website is a section with information for clients, i.e., users of translation. The Board is now considering a draft.
6. FIT membership status
The Board has decided to continue with JAT's present associate membership status in FIT, the International Federation of Translators, after considering the possibilities of upgrading to full membership and of dropping out of the federation.
7. Magazine article about JAT
As I reported last month, on August 10 Vice-President Kathy Taji and I were interviewed by Ms. 八代 登志江 (Toshie Yashiro), 編集長 of 『通訳・翻訳ジャーナル』. Ms. Yashiro also attended the JAT monthly meeting on August 21. She has written up a brief article about JAT, which has appeared in the November issue, and which is reprinted elsewhere in this Bulletin (see "JAT in the Media").
Kathy Taji membership@jat.org
As of October 3, 1999, the statistics for JAT membership are as follows.
Total number of members: 370
(Includes pending renewals for August and September 1999)
Overseas members: 164 (44.3%)
Members in Japan: 206
JAT-list
Subscribed: 341
Not Subscribed: 29
Open Directory: 217 listed
(http//www.jat.org/opendir.html)
New members who joined in September: 17
Renewal dues were received from the following members in September(listed in alphabetical order).*
1. Eric Alsruhe
2. Susumu Ando
3. David Azcue
4. Jon D. Babcock
5. John Bryan
6. Jerome Conway
7. Amir Freimann
8. Paul Gray
9. Junko Igarashi
10. Tadao Kageyama
11. Motoko Naito
12. Kenta Sato
13. Charles Stewart
14. Jeffrey T. Stocker
15. Sumiko Suzuki
16. Ichirou Takazawa
17. George Tokikuni (2 years)
18. Hiro Tsuchiya
19. Cathleen Winston
Directory Updates
1. Gareth Edwards
2. Thomas Elliott
3. Bill Lise
4. Victor Murray
5. Leslie Tkach
6. Sonny Watanabe
7. Cathleen Winston
* Please note that members who paid their renewal dues through the bank or post office at the beginning of October will be included in the November report, as it takes several days before JAT treasurer, Bob Oliver, receives notification that payment has been received.
１．京都・祇園を舞台とするアーサー・ゴールデン（Arthur Golden）の小説、Memoirs of a Geishaの日本語版翻訳者、小川高義氏の特別講演が実現する運びとなった。上旬にリゼが横浜に氏を訪ね、同意を得たもの。（日本語版は『さゆり』というタイトルで11月に文藝春秋から発売予定。）
２．プログラムの骨格がほぼまとまった。小川氏による講演の他に、参加者全員が一堂に会してのセッションを２コマ、小部屋に分かれてのセッションを15開催する予定である。
３．京都には市内で開催される会議に参加する人が特定のホテルに宿泊する場合部屋代が割り引きになる「コンベンションレート」という制度があるが、IJET-2000参加者についてはこの制度の適用を宝ヶ池プリンスホテルとAPAホテルに対し求める意向を固めた。前者は会議場真向かい、後者はJR京都駅すぐの立地である。
４．参加申込の受付から参加費の受領確認、受付確認書発送までの作業は、ヴェンティ、カーター、ゴッドレスキーが分担して行う旨確認した。
５．プログラム、および会議録（Proceedings）への広告募集活動を行っていく上で、佐藤幸浩氏の応援が得られることになった。
６．紙媒体による案内がほぼ完成した。
A formal proposal with all the required parameters has been received from none of the interested groups yet, however, and the deliberations of the committee will need to wait until more details are known. Naturally,the committee would welcome additional proposals.
Design and technical changes
The Web Site Director (WSD) reviewed the following files (approximately 70% of the pages directly linked to the main index page or one level from the index page) for design and technical uniformity,specifically in terms of character encoding (ensuring "shift_jis" was the coding):
index.html (parts rewritten and added to by Jeremy)
aboutjatj.html
aboutjat.html
nextmeeting.html (updated by Leslie)
pastmeetings1998.html (updated by Leslie)
pastmeetings1999.html (updated by Leslie)
recentnews.html (updated by Leslie)
joining.html
members only portion (and direct links to one level)
open directory (prior to Jeremy uploading the new one)
The following files are left to be done this month:
translation topics (which may be done by Bill Lise)
IJET portion of the site (Friedemann's pages)
Constitution (both English and Japanese)
board.html
other resources
honyaku
all directors' meeting minutes and archived Bulletins
We will continue to explore new design initiatives for the site, but perhaps later in October or November after the members' survey (our priority this month along with finishing the above refreshes)
In other design changes, Bill Lise has graciously offered to revamp the Translation Topics sections and indicates that he plans to use style sheets to do same. The question of maintenance for the TT section has been successfully resolved. We are looking forward to new content and a new design for this section in the coming months.
Content changes
There were no major content changes to the site during September, however, the WSD suggested to Jeremy and the Board that a flexible perpetual planning schedule be drawn up so that the Web Site Committee can coordinate its time and technical knowledge over the coming months to handle the following content additions:
* Members' Survey
* Bulletin refresh
* "Client Education" section
* "JAT Bookshelf"
* Bulletin Board feature (Ray Roman)
The site management function has evolved into the following format:
Friedemann: IJET portion of the site
Bill: TT section
Emily: Bulletin
Leslie: refreshes, overall site design, most pages
directly
accessible from the main index page
George: Bookshelf project
Jeremy: site design, membership directories, board pages
Our plans for October are:
* finalizing, coding, and executing the Members' Survey(could
take all of October with our available resources)
* working on new overall design for the site (style
sheets)