OSTI and OSTI History
This is the current OSTI President.
Who is Lois Feuerle?
This tool has become necessary for interpreters to use in the time of COVID-19 to maintain social distancing.
What is interpreting equipment?
What is remote interpreting/Zoom/phone interpreting?
This Netflix show featured Joe Exotic and a real-life cast of characters almost as wild—or wilder!—as the animals in their zoos.
What is Tiger King?
In January of this year, OSTI was founded.
What is 2014?
This profession involves the meticulous translation of books and poems, often in collaboration with the author.
What is Literary Translation?
This baking technique for this type of bread involves creating and nurturing a "starter," which can last for years and gets more complex and delicious as time goes by.
What is sourdough?
This is the hashtag we encourage all OSTI 2020 Conference participants to use when posting about the conference on social media.
What is #OSTI2020?
This language profession is classified by interpreters interpreting for members of a regional area for governments and NGOs.
What is community interpreting?
This hobby typically results in dirty fingernails and sun exposure, but can also result in ingredients for your Pandemic Recipe Book.
What is gardening?
This OSTI committee pushes for improved conditions for translators and interpreters and holds letter-writing events and its members appear at meetings where policy decisions are made.
What is the Advocacy Committee?
This is what the letters C-A-T mean when talking about CAT tools for translators.
What is Computer Assisted Translation?
These items became the go-to accessory during the COVID-19 pandemic and are now available in almost any pattern or color imaginable.
What are masks/face coverings?
This guiding document is available on OSTI's website and includes 8 obligations to which all OSTI members must adhere.
What is the OSTI Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility?
This term is defined by: the process of making something local in character or restricting it to a particular place.
What is localization?
This term was coined during the pandemic to describe obsessively looking at social media to quell a sense of existential dread.
What is Doomscrolling?