1-98 (March 1998) by Hans Springer

Dear colleagues:

At the beginning of the second year of TC-Forum I would first like to heartily thank all who brought us up the state we have reached in our first year:

• All of you who have contributed to the content of TC-Forum writing articles, comments or letters to the editor;
• All who have contributed to bring your contributions to paper: the Language- and Style-editors Ron Blicq and Lisa Moretto, the Graphics and Illustrations-editors Nils P. Smeby and Ulf L Andersson, the Layouters Birgit Klink and Matthias Scheurle, our Production-Manager Wolfgang Buchholz, and our printers at Grafoline, Stuttgart Echterdingen, who perform for us the printing, addressing, packing and posting of TC.Forum
• And especially our generous sponsor, Daimler Benz AG, STAR INFORMATION & SERVICES, in Stuttgart, Germany. Thanks to this sponsoring we are in the happy position to distribute TC-Forum free of charge again in 1998.

To save postage we will distribute this and the following Issues of TC-Forum only to those who have at least once returned the reply-form up to now. But this may only lengthen the time in which we can pay for the postage. To solve the problem generally we need additional sponsorship.

So, please look around whether you could identify some organization engaged in technical communication and possibly willing to support our service to TC’s. If you should prefer it you could e-mail to me the person or organization that you propose to contact - and I will make the contact.

The success of TC-Forum has encouraged me even more to continue editing the journal, and I am having a lot of fun doing so. The same is true for our publisher, Brigitte Beuttenmueller, who is my partner in many things concerning the organization of TC-Forum.

However, our success has created another problem: the amount of work is beginning to be too much for me to handle the whole project alone. Therefore I am asking you to consider becoming a member of the TC-Forum editorial team. Please drop me a line if you would like to invest some time for this certainly enjoyable and rewarding project. Your support will be welcome both for the paper and for the electronic version. In fact, the main reason why the electronic version is not yet available in our website is my not having enough time to get it online. The contents are available and the programmer is waiting for our directions. Who has sufficient experience designing web-pages to help getting this job done (You will need an email address to communicate with us).

Let me close with a comment I made in the very first issue of TC-Forum:

TC-Forum is your chance to communicate your ideas, experience, questions or answers to currently more than 2 000 colleagues worldwide in 32 countries. It is your Forum. It is what you make out of it. It lives from your contributions.

Yours
Hans Springer.

"transline Deutschland - Übersetzungsdienst für technische Übersetzung"