Rubric Birds of a Feather meeting, April 2007 in Silicon Valley
Localization professionals from all over Silicon Valley attended Rubric's Birds of a Feather networking meeting on April 19, 2007. In addition to a hearty breakfast and some great peer-level networking, attendees engaged in a robust dialogue after a presentation on keeping localization project on schedule from Rubric's Senior Project Manager, Andrew Jones. As one attendee reported later:
"It was great to hear from even more of my peers. This event is priceless."
Silicon Valley localization experts and Rubric team chat over coffee.
Michael Gnann of Hyperion, Sarah Kitteridge of SumTotal Systems, Lynn Fujise of VM Ware and Françoise Spurling, COO of Rubric.
Breakfast was served but localization pros didn't stop to conversation for a second.
Ian Henderson Rubric welcomes Libby Vincent from EFI.
Cynthia Lunk, Rubric's Silicon Valley representative welcomes Terry Lydon of ViewCentral.
Ian Henderson, Rubric's CEO welcomes everyone and lays out the agenda for the morning.
Andrew Jones, Rubric's Senior Project Manager, begins his presentation on keeping localization projects on schedule.
Sarah Kitteridge of SumTotal Systems joins Andrew in his presentation, telling how SumTotal manages to release products on schedule while delivering more languages than most software companies can.
Pauli Dieli of Adobe asks Andrew and Sarah a question about localization schedules.
Libby Vincent of EFI listens intently as Melissa Baerwald of Adobe discusses how they approach localization schedules.
Michael Gnann of Hyperion joins the discussion after Andrew's presentation while Paula Dieli from Adobe, Stanley Du of ViewCentral, and Eva Klaudinyova from VeriSign look on.
Libby Vincent of EFI chimes in on localization schedule preservation. Melissa Baerwald of Adobe is at her left.
Stanley Du and Terry Lydon of ViewCentral compare notes after the presentation.
Michael Gnann of Hyperion, Eva Klaudinyova and Michael Armentano of VeriSign, and Paula Dieli of Adobe.
Melissa Baerwald of Adobe chats with Charles Bautista from ShoreTel and Rubric's Andrew Jones.
COO Françoise Spurling chats (in French) with Fabien Desmole.
If you missed our Birds of a Feather meeting, you also missed getting a journal with the keys to keeping your localization on schedule printed on the cover. If you would like one of these journals, email info@rubric.com and we will put one in the mail to you.
