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Helping the Little Guy Localize (or, Size Shouldn't Matter)
A Peek at the Fluent.ly beta platform for community-based localization

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EVENT DETAILS:

Date: July 16, 2009, 7-9 PM

Topic: Helping the Little Guy Localize (or, Size Shouldn't Matter)
A Peek at the Fluent.ly beta platform for community-based localization

Speaker: Bob Zoller and Phillip Bensaid, 16watts

Location: Apple, 1 Infinite Loop, Singapore Conference Room. Please see the map links below.

16watts, creators of activeconference - a teleconferencing API for web applications - are tackling the technical and practical challenges developers face when localizing their applications and websites. Please join Phillip Bensaid and Bob Zoller of 16watts to take a peek at Fluent.ly, their new beta platform for community-based localization and to participate in a discussion on engaging users and non-professionals in localization efforts. They will show Fluently and provide beta access to attendees who express an interest. Most importantly though, Phillip and Bob hope to initiate a lively discussion with IMUG members about this recently controversial topic.

16watts (named after Edison's first widely marketed light bulb wattage) is a small collective of developers and designers focused on making tools to help developers create richer, more engaging applications. 16watts is Bob Zoller, Carl Yestrau, Phillip Bensaid and friends.

Bob Zoller has been developing web applications since 1996, back when they were called "shopping carts." After helping build a successful ISP (acquired by Highspeed), he spent four years growing a software development company in the aerospace industry (acquired by Mercer). Hungry to deploy web applications at scale, Bob joined Yahoo! where he worked on various social products (360, Groups, Open Strategy) for two and half years.

Phillip Bensaid, as a dual citizen of the US  and Canada who is of Peruvian and North African descent, finds he has to localize himself several times a day. A user interface designer since 1997, Phillip has worked in Paris, Halifax, NS and San Francisco. He joined the global design firm Frog design in 2000 and for 7 years led numerous large-scale web and application design initiatives for companies like Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Localization and globalization were often a major component of these projects. As an entrepreneur he been confronted with the challenges small development teams face when considering localization. Fluent.ly is a direct response to those learnings.

Location/Directions:

Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino

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Take the Saratoga/Sunnyvale Rd. [De Anza Blvd.] exit off 280, turn south into Cupertino, go one block and turn left onto Mariani Avenue, then take another left into 1 Infinite Loop.

An IMUG volunteer will be at the front door to escort you in and direct you to the correct room (usually the Singapore Room).

Admission: $4 - FREE for all IMUG members.

IMUG meets on the third Thursday of each month, usually on the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA. Each meeting features at least one speaker of interest to the multilingual computing community. Past topics include software development, language translation, international business and more. Visit the archives to learn more.

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