I’m writing this during a break in the first day of the Open Translation Tools conference in Zagreb.

Last night could be called day 0, I attended the opening drinks. I then already managed to have some interesting chats with other participants.

The real conference is quite informal and makes use of special communication techniques, such as drawing a line on the floor to use as an “opinion spectrum”, or the group writing lots of single statements/questions on post-its which then later are sorted in groups on a blackboard. This is all less chaotic than you would expect, quite effective actually.

I hope to get a better understanding of the needs of translators, so I can make Passiflora a useful piece of software. Making it meet my own needs is good, making it useful for many others is better.

I will participate in a speedgeeking session, which is something like speeddating for projects. Unfortunately Passiflora is kinda broken at the moment, so I can’t give a smooth demo… I’ll probably show just one screen to illustrate the general idea. I’ve got only 4 minutes anyway, that probably wouldn’t be enough to show two screens .

Having loads of fun!