Powwow Report for United Kingdom - Reading (Oct 2 2008)


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Report from  Nicole Y. Adams, M.A.
Thanks again to everyone for joining in.

It was definitely nice to meet a few local faces and be able to chat about our profession and our experiences in person, ... from getting established and translation rates to our in-house experiences in localisation companies, cultural differences and the difficulties of interpreting. And the food wasn't too shabby either. :)

Chris, thank you for the post-mortem and the useful links. Thanks also for sharing your experiences - which was very insightful - and some entertaining episodes, "Engele".

Valesca, it was definitely good to hear from someone with a different language pair as well, not just German/English. :)

Ricarda, good to see you again after 7 years. Die Welt ist eben doch ein Dorf.

Beatrice, I hope you found the meeting useful and will be able to benefit from the huge treasure chest that is Proz.com.

I look forward to the photos, and hopefully there'll be another local event soon!



Photos from  Textklick


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Ricarda Brucke
Nicole Y. Adams, M.A.
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Postings from ProZians who attended this event

Oct 3 '08  Textklick: Post mortem
Hi Nicole and thanks for organising. Pleasant lunch, nice to meet new faces and weren’t we lucky to have weather like that while we skyved off for half a day?
Jamie was great. Sitting there clearly making mental notes and showing no signs of boredom about translator chit-chat. Du sollst auch Deutsch mit ihm reden, damit er ein Top-Übersetzer wird. ;-)

@Beatrice
You might find these sites interesting in the light of what we discussed:
http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html
Check the forums here: http://www.proz.com/forum/getting_established-15.html
Find U.K. interpreters here: http://www.proz.com/?sp=interpreter_search
If you mail me, I can send you an interesting sample file from one of the applications we talked about (it doesn’t matter that you don’t have the program: I can send it as a PDF so that you can see what can be done)

@Ric
If you go to Berlin in the summer of 2009, don’t miss out on Steffen’s ‘AGM’
This was this year’s one: http://www.proz.com/powwow_report/1664

@Valeska
You mentioned Düsseldorf, I think. Coming up soon.
http://www.proz.com/powwow/1946

Finally: to enjoy the World Service (plus 6,000 odd further stations) through the comfort of your own hi-fi and without needing laptops, small speakers etc., here is the widget I talked about.
http://www.lusonic.com/products.asp?cat=90