The author attended the first Worldware conference in March, which focused on business issues around software internationalization and globalization rather than technical issues. The conference featured presentations from executives of major tech companies and included discussions on quantifying return on investment from internationalization, leveraging crowdsourcing for localization, challenges of internationalizing Agile development processes, and best practices for organizational frameworks to support global software products. Though the conference had outstanding material, attendance was relatively low at around 70 people total. The author provided highlights from their notes of several presentations on topics such as data on customer preference for localized software, challenges of internationalizing existing code, and tips for getting internationalization efforts approved within organizations.
Leadership From Below: What Software Developers do for Society and Why Others...Trond Arne Undheim
Developers have some core attitudes that are deeply shaping contemporary society. They foreshadow a society built on leadership from below, where leadership is less hierarchical. In this new, somewhat individualitic world, paradoxically, collaboration and standardization lay the foundation for the future.
PowerPoint Presentation discussing the marketing case study of Microsoft. From the chapter Collecting Information and Forecasting Demand from Kotler’s Marketing Management textbook.
The Impact on Aerospace Leadership - A Perspective Based on a global Heidrick & Struggles and Team SAI joint Survey
Presentation To: AVIATION Week\'s Eighth MRO Asia Event
By: Torbjorn Karlsson
October 15, 2008
Leadership From Below: What Software Developers do for Society and Why Others...Trond Arne Undheim
Developers have some core attitudes that are deeply shaping contemporary society. They foreshadow a society built on leadership from below, where leadership is less hierarchical. In this new, somewhat individualitic world, paradoxically, collaboration and standardization lay the foundation for the future.
PowerPoint Presentation discussing the marketing case study of Microsoft. From the chapter Collecting Information and Forecasting Demand from Kotler’s Marketing Management textbook.
The Impact on Aerospace Leadership - A Perspective Based on a global Heidrick & Struggles and Team SAI joint Survey
Presentation To: AVIATION Week\'s Eighth MRO Asia Event
By: Torbjorn Karlsson
October 15, 2008
Here is an overview presentation that I used to get started on thinking about globalization in a network era. This is more about framing the issues than actually proposing specific recommendations.
In this webinar we’ll show you how Customized Machine Translation with human post editing can replace a standard translation workflow for documentation projects, saving you both time and money.
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VARS - the way we make money as independent entrepreneurs...Gordon Kraft
In the days of the minicomputer and PC's VARS Value Added Resellers provided turnkey solutions to Business. They still do to Large End Users LEU's, but with the economy creating more and more Entrepreneurs, one man bands a new yet solution is required. Pooling of Interests is required... Collaboration is required. This can be done by Google Hangouts. Or of course one can Offshore their requirements to India.
Silicon Valley can create Pooling Interest in and city, even Lake Tahoe...
Here is an overview presentation that I used to get started on thinking about globalization in a network era. This is more about framing the issues than actually proposing specific recommendations.
In this webinar we’ll show you how Customized Machine Translation with human post editing can replace a standard translation workflow for documentation projects, saving you both time and money.
We will be joined by Kazuo Suzuki from Interactive Intelligence, a world leader in Contact Center software solutions, who we recently worked with to deploy a customized MT and post editing workflow, saving both time and translation costs.
In this 45 minute session you'll learn:
• How to identify areas where MT can make a dramatic impact
• The process of planning, training, testing and deploying MT engine
• The post editing process and how this affects output quality
• The benefits Interactive Intelligence gained through using MT
• How your business could benefit
To find out how MT is being used in real world applications by leading international businesses, register for our webinar today.
Intergen's newsletter, Smarts, now available for online reading.
Intergen provides information technology solutions across Australia, New Zealand and the world based exclusively on Microsoft’s tools and technologies.
VARS - the way we make money as independent entrepreneurs...Gordon Kraft
In the days of the minicomputer and PC's VARS Value Added Resellers provided turnkey solutions to Business. They still do to Large End Users LEU's, but with the economy creating more and more Entrepreneurs, one man bands a new yet solution is required. Pooling of Interests is required... Collaboration is required. This can be done by Google Hangouts. Or of course one can Offshore their requirements to India.
Silicon Valley can create Pooling Interest in and city, even Lake Tahoe...
Every Consumer is a Business user is a ConsumerMichael Kogeler
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Venture Capital project, in the context of this course we explore venture capital as a social science. Meaning, that it consists of thought leaders, supporters, visionaries and far more than just money. Your assignment is to follow 3 venture capital firms that invest in a technology area you are interested. Within each venture firm, follow 1 portfolio company.
This white paper outlines the realities of internationalization project work, and how outside support services can make it all come together - on time, and in budget.
Presentation for the "Geeks On a Plane" tour to Asia. The purpose of this presentation is to re-assess assumptions on innovation, cultural differences and arbitration opportunities. It also involves Underpants Gnomes, Mexican burritos and a gallery of deceased scientists.
Source: http://www.lingoport.com/javascript-internationalization-%E2%80%93-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly
Given JavaScript’s status as the de facto browser client scripting language, and given the international nature of the Internet, it was inevitable that JavaScript and internationalization (i18n) would eventually cross paths. At Lingoport, we see a good deal of JavaScript in our client’s code that we internationalize. While JavaScript is not completely
without international capabilities and functionality, it does have its share of challenges and faults. This article briefly discusses some of what to expect of JavaScript in an international web application – what works (the good), what to watch out for (the bad), and what to avoid (the ugly).
Source: http://www.gala-global.org/articles/internationalization-primer-how-helping-your-client-solve-coding-issues-can-give-you-compet
While recent industry headlines have been dominated by merger mania, I think the long term story for GALA
companies is really about how to provide better service, products and returns for our customers. Thats how we
compete for and keep customers. Within software localization, the functional emphasis is typically on words - word
counts, what they cost, when they will be received, translation memories, translation quality, localization engineering
and delivery milestones. But for our company, we get involved months, if not years, before our clients are ready to
localize. This article aims to show that you can put internationalization to work as a repeatable and successful activity
to differentiate your company further as a problem-solver, helping clients get to market faster and more efficiently.
"Introduction to Internationalization (I18n)" by Adam Asnes, President & CEO of Lingoport (lingoport.com), a software internationalization (i18n) tools and consulting company.
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Even in this era of global commerce, instant information exchange,
and falling economic boundaries, the business of “globalization” is
rife with confusing terms and concepts, especially for client
companies wading into the area for the first time.
At Lingoport, we find that, in general, technology firms with global
ambitions well understand what localization is and how it relates to
software globalization. But they often have limited understanding of
the related field of internationalization, and how it relates to the job
at hand.
That’s of course a generalization. Many firms are well versed in both
terms, and in the case of the largest global technology brands,
support internal staffs devoted to internationalization. Their needs
are of course dramatically different than firms that, by virtue of their
size, industry focus, or experience, simply aren’t familiar with the
intricacies and interdependencies of l10n and i18n.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
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This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
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- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
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- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
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Worldware: Software internationalization and globalization conference summary notes
1. Worldware Conference Summary – Not as good as being there
Internationalization Articles April 15th, 2
In March I attended and presented at the first Worldware conference, which took place in Santa Clara,
California in the heart of Silicon Valley. I became really excited about this conference as it proved to be
the first to directly target business issues around software internationalization and globalization. Too often
in other conferences, the focus is very low level on technical issues, while missing greater business
planning and operational issues that affect every organization that looks to build and maintain world-ready
products. In fact, that issue had been a long running annoyance for me when attending conferences like
Unicode and LocalizationWorld. So I was eager to get involved in Worldware and sat on its board as well.
The conference had outstanding material, and featured various business leaders from well known world software brands. The downsi
was that the conference was not particularly well attended. There were probably a total of about 70 people there, including speake
but at least we all got to know one another. Presentations featured executives from companies like EMC, Microsoft, Linden Labs,
Oracle, Mozilla, Sun, Adobe, Yahoo!, Intel, various industry consultants and of course me.
Here’s a few items from my notes and memory, in little particular order:
• Don Depalma, of CommonSense Advisory, had some excellent data showing return on investment and overwhelming custom
preference for software which was internationalized with locale sensitive language and formatting support. His numbers were
the Holy Grail that managers have been asking for. A big point was that even when end-users are perfectly capable of reading
writing and speaking English, they vastly preferred software in their own language to the point where they made choices and
spent more in line with that preference. Don had data broken down even per country. I can’t wait to poach some of these
slides.
• Common points were that i18n is an enabler for localization and ultimately revenues. A way to waste a ton of money is to
pursue localization before you’ve properly internationalized.
• Organizations like Mozilla and Linden Labs (Second Life) are making great use of crowdsourcing to enable new features and
localization. So if you have a product which has an emotional type of rabid following, crowdsourcing is a relatively new form
getting help, though it needs its own adaptation for management.
• Some companies, like EMC, must simultaneously ship for all top tier locales when releasing new products. So globalization
isn’t an afterthought.
• Executives don’t understand internationalization but understand the cascading effect.
• Invest in internationalization expertise. Too expensive to “wing” it.
o Empower product teams
o Create i18n boot camp training
2. • Some companies demonstrated that they have built whole organizational frameworks to support internationalization.
Particularly Intel and Yahoo! presented how they are using technologies for automatically auditing global readiness. Happy to
say Globalyzer got many accolades.
• There was a lively Agile (extremely popular development methodology) discussion as it relates to internationalization. This
because if i18n is built into the product development from the start Agile works great. When there are Agile cycles and i18n o
existing code going on simultaneously, both efforts are very unlikely to synchronize well. Lots of reasons for this, which woul
probably make a great future article for this newsletter. This issue came up multiple times and Tony Jewteshenko gave a who
presentation session on it (but I wasn’t able to attend that one).
• It’s extremely difficult to take back a language after you release for a particular market. So consider that request for your
software in Klingon carefully.
• How you communicate around the world will empower your organization.
o Brand recognition
o Market Share
o ROI
• I presented along with Daniel Goldschmidt on how to get an i18n effort going
o Technical buyer, vs. Management objectives
o Need to get a good plan for budget approval first, design second
o Showed Globalyzer 3.0 and scanned some open source code
o Demonstrated a project plan
o Daniel broke down i18n projects into a 3 phase approach
• Transportation – moving data from A to B
• Application – doing something with the data (e.g. sorting)
• User Interfaces
o Then we both talked about keeping software world-ready and answered questions
• Kamal Monsour of Monotype Imaging gave a most informative presentation showing intricacies of digital fonts in languages l
Arabic and Hindi.
• I was on a panel along with Ed Watts of Oracle and Mike McKenna from Yahoo! on Assessing and Quantifying efforts. Ed
emphasized the role of pseudo-localization. Mike was his usual incredible reservoir of information and experiences both
organizationally and on the technical side in supporting i18n. I talked about how we essentially have had to learn to estimate
and execute internationalization projects and still make a profit, and that’s why we’ve created tools and methodologies to d
3. so.
• Aaron Marcus of Aaron Marcus and Associates gave a presentation on cross cultural user-experience design showing many
cultural differences, certain scales by which cultures accept power hierarchies and how that shows up in site design.
• Mike McKenna showed a fabulous presentation on trends in internationalizing which featured several i18n initiatives at Yaho
As a bonus, I got a Fight Mojibake sticker (ghost characters), which is now on my notebook. In particular, they work to get
people enthusiastic and understanding that they are creating products for the world. He also talked about how his team
supports i18n with tools like Globalyzer. Thanks Mike.
• Barbara Burbach of Cisco talked about staffing models, including outsourcing for i18n and l10n. She felt i18n outsourcing fo
an existing product was a good idea, as it keeps the core development team focused on new features. For new products being
internationalized from the beginning, she preferred in house engineering.
• Tex Texin (i18n Guy) discussed how he has worked with various teams to promote internationalization, and how decisions
were often affected. He also gave Globalyzer a nice recommendation. Tex was formerly in charge of internationalization at
Yahoo! and NetApp, both of which are Lingoport customers. Thanks Tex.
I’ve missed a ton in this quick summary, as I haven’t managed to master being in two places at once and couldn’t have attended all
sessions.
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