Annual General Meeting 2015

Welcome to our first annual general meeting as a registered organization! We will meet in the place that we first begun, the cabinet meeting room in the pub Leijuva Lahna, and we’ll try to make the meeting short and focused so that you can have time to socialize with other members. However, we will be having our own pub quiz in English, and that night is the regular quiz night for the pub. Yes, there will be prizes!

See the agenda in English and Finnish below. We will propose the new members of the board before the meeting, although volunteers are welcome at any time.
Leijuva Lahna
Cabinet meeting room
Eerikinkatu 14
Tuesday, 21 April
17:00

Welcome!
Julie Uusinarkaus

Vuosikokous
Yhdistyksen vuosikokouksessa käsitellään seuraavat asiat:
1. kokouksen avaus
2. valitaan kokouksen puheenjohtaja, sihteeri, kaksi
pöytäkirjantarkastajaa ja tarvittaessa kaksi ääntenlaskijaa
3. todetaan kokouksen laillisuus ja päätösvaltaisuus
4. hyväksytään kokouksen työjärjestys
5. esitetään tilinpäätös, vuosikertomus ja tilintarkastajan lausunto
6. päätetään tilinpäätöksen vahvistamisesta ja vastuuvapauden
myöntämisestä hallitukselle ja muille vastuuvelvollisille
7. vahvistetaan toimintasuunnitelma, tulo- ja menoarvio sekä liittymisja
jäsenmaksun suuruus
8. valitaan hallituksen puheenjohtaja ja muut jäsenet ja varajäsenet
9. valitaan yksi tilintarkastaja ja yksi varatilintarkastaja.
Varatilintarkastajaa ei valita, jos tilintarkastajana toimii tilitoimisto
tai muu tilintarkastajayhteisö
10. käsitellään muut kokouskutsussa mainitut asiat

The Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Association shall consider the following business:
1. opening of the meeting
2. election of a chairman, a secretary, two individuals to scrutinise the minutes and two individuals to count the votes at the meeting where necessary
3. verification that the meeting is lawful and that those present form a quorum
4. approval of the agenda for the meeting
5. presentation of the financial statements, the annual report and the auditor’s opinion
6. decision to confirm the financial statements and discharge the Board and other accountable persons from liability
7. confirmation of the operating plan, the budget and the affiliation and membership subscription
8. election of the Chairman and other members and deputy members of the Board for the following year
9. election of one auditor and one deputy auditor. No deputy auditor shall be elected if an accounting firm or other auditing corporation serves as auditor
10. consideration of any other business specified in the invitation to the meeting.

Please find invitation attached (PDF: NEaT-AGM2015invite)

Practical Statistics in English

Dear NEaT follower: if you are not yet a member, now is an excellent time to join!

Below is an announcement for a seminar to be held at the Language Centre at the University of Helsinki, and if you are a NEaT member, even though you do not work at the university, you may also attend this seminar. The seminar will be taught by our own Stephen Stalter, based on what he learned from the METM 2014. See the invitation text below.

Practical Statistics in English

We would like to invite you to the upcoming Language Services seminar Practical Statistics in English. Stephen Stalter will guide us through the basics of understanding statistics and common statistical models with the goal of supporting the language skills of revisors and translators working in English.

The seminar will take place on 19 March, 4-6 pm in room 405 of the Language Centre at Fabianinkatu 26.

The seminar is based on one given at the Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2014. MET is an organization based in southern Europe offering further education to editors and translators.

To register for the seminar, please go tohttps://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/58524/lomake.html and leave your name and email. The deadline for registration is 16 March.

Thanks for a great 2014!

To NEaT members,

Thank you all for your participation in NEaT activities in 2014, and I hope to see you again and often in 2015.

In 2014 we legally registered Nordic Editors and Translators with twenty founding members. We formed a professional standards committee and a committee to build the website and other media (both of which are still open for members to join). The website is up at www.nordicedit.fi, and we have a presence on Facebook and Twitter. NEaT cooperated with SKTL (Suomen kääntäjien ja tulkkien liitto) to teach a seminar, and we had our first end of the year Christmas celebration with a lecture from Andrew Chesterman, who is now our first honorary member.

Last year was a busy year with much organization work behind the scenes, and now that we have become a registered organization, we have much work to do next year to make this group what we envision it to be. NEaT will become what the members build it to be. We need volunteers to teach seminars, to plan cooperation with other organizations, to suggest and run activities and meetups,  to write content for the website, and to serve on committees, in short, to help build an organization.

Let me know if you can help. I am looking forward to a wonderful and busy 2015.

Yours,
Julie Uusinarkaus
NEaT Chair