Dear All, Last Friday I became a member of http://www.oooauthors.org/ and signed up to this mailing list. Now, I thought it might be a good idea if first of all I introduced myself.
I am a native German speaker permanently living in Scotland. I qualified as a technical translator for the languages English and Spanish to German at the Hochschule-Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) in 2001. As it happens, I didn't go into freelance translations immediately and got sidetracked for a few years. Now, I have decided to start freelance translation work after all, but find myself in the catch-22 situation of no work no reference, no references no work. I have always been hovering on the edge of IT topics due to my previous work environment, my husband's interest in everything IT, currently Mac, and my sister, who is an application developer, but I don't have any officially recorded experience myself. I am working with Mac OS X 10.4, OpenOffice.org and OmegaT and thought by helping you I could test run everything in combination and also gain more experience. What do you thinK? I would be greatful if you nodged me in the right direction as to where to start. I currently have downloaded your guidelines, but I admit to not having worked through them, yet. I am looking forward to joining the project. Kind Regards, Peggy Strachan T/A Triple Text Translations Dipl.-Fachübersetzerin (FH) / Technical Translator Tel.: +44 (0) 0506 1444 925 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: peggy.strachan http://www.triple-text-translations.co.uk
