LISA Workshops Boston, USA - September 12, 17-18

["Alex Lam" <alex@lisa.org>]

LISA WORKSHOPS IN BOSTON
September 12th in Waltham
September 17 & 18 in Boston's Back-Bay

Six technical training and business development workshops in three 
days covering:

- J2EE Applications
- Project Management
- I18n & L10n Testing
- Automating Localization Workflow
- Unicode and Asian Character Sets
- Defining Globalization  Requirements

Register now to learn from the brightest and most accomplished 
consultants in the Localization and Internationalization business 
community.

http://www.lisa.org/events/2003boston/registration.html

Read below for more information or visit
http://www.lisa.org/events/2003boston/index.html

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   FRIDAY, September 12, 2003
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* DEVELOPING GLOBAL J2EE APPLICATIONS
* Yann Meersseman of Yann Meersseman & Associates

Focusing on Sun's Java/J2EE platform, this workshop identifies and 
explains the critical concepts underlying a truly global application. 
Once this foundation has been established, the attention is centered 
successively on the Java language, the user interfaces, and finally 
the complete J2EE platform. This workshop covers the details and gives 
examples of the various techniques and mechanisms that must 
imperatively become part of the global developer's toolkit.


* MANAGING LOCALIZATION PROJECTS
* Cathyann Swindlehurst of Venturi Technology Partners

The management aspects of localization and internationalization 
projects are critical not only to the success of the project, but also 
to the success of the corporate objective which necessitated the 
project; yet localization and internationalization initiatives rarely 
get the management attention they need and deserve. This workshop 
covers two two of the major areas of I18N/L10N management: management 
of the project, and; management of (and negotiation with) vendors.


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   WEDNESDAY, September 17, 2003
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* INTERNATIONALIZATION & LOCALIZATION TESTING
* Matta Saikali, Vice-President i18N Inc

This workshop will show you how to test in all target languages and on 
all target platforms in a cost effective manner. You will learn how to 
set up a testing organization along with associated workflow, planning 
and management structures. You will learn how to leverage industry 
best practices, methods, tools and techniques.

You will learn what to test and how to test it. This knowledge will be 
ready-to-use the very next day!


* AUTOMATING LOCALIZATION WORKFLOW
* Pierre Cadieux, President of i18N Inc

If you expect your Web site to go global and you don't have a CMS, 
take this opportunity to integrate globalization requirements up-front 
and select the best CMS+GMS pair for your needs! This workshop will 
help you determine whether you should consider purchasing such a 
system and, if so, what system is the best for your needs. Systems 
covered include TRADOS GXT, SDLWorkFlow, STAR Proactive 2.0, 
GlobalSight System4, IDIOM WorldServer, LTC Organizer, J.D. Edwards 
Content Manager and others.

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   THURSDAY, September 18, 2003
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* UNICODE AND ASIAN CHARACTER SETS
* Pierre Cadieux, President of i18N Inc

If you are thinking about internationalising your product, in order to 
produce localised versions for Asia or the rest of the world, your 
first decision will be how to represent your data. Will you use 
Unicode? or local character sets? or both? What laws can influence 
your decision? And what issues arise when using Unicode? Which 
encoding should you use? What are the benefits and costs? This 
uniquely unbiased workshop answers these questions by presenting 
Unicode's strong and weak points in a clear, incisive manner.

This workshop will show you how to determine your data representation 
strategy and where Unicode fits in. You will learn what encoding to 
use, when to normalize, how to deal with fonts and databases and how 
to conform to the legal requirements in Asia. You will be ready to 
move, with confidence, to the next step in your internationalisation 
project.


* DEFINING GLOBALIZATION REQUIREMENTS
* Matta Saikali, Vice-President i18N Inc

Have you ever had to take a product and adapt it to the world market? 
Have you ever had to gather multilingual software requirements? How 
can you describe requirements which vary for different locales? Have 
you ever had a tight budget forcing you to choose which features to 
implement and which features to defer? Did you face this problem on a 
global scale?

Requirements are a critical part of any software project and become 
extremely complex when simultaneously facing the needs of different 
locales. This workshop shows you how to systematically approach 
requirement management for software projects independent of your 
development process.

The workshop walks you through all phases of a requirement life cycle 
including elicitation, elaboration, workflow, prioritization, 
development, testing, deployment and support. Several real life 
examples from successful globalization projects are covered. You will 
take home tools, templates and techniques that you can use right away!

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The LISA Workshops in Boston and Waltham are hosted and organized by 
the following companies:

Idiom Inc . Venturi Technology Partners . SMP Marketing SarL

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- Notices -
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Founded in 1990, LISA is the premier professional organization for the 
GILT (Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and 
Translation) business community. With more than 400 members from the 
high-tech and vertical market sectors, LISA is well-known for its best 
practice guidelines for language technology standards and enterprise 
globalization. It's the organization to join when you're serious about 
international business.

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