Short report from Germany

Regarding Microsoft Resource Localization Toolkit and other things

MVP-Summit

Thank you forinviting me!

It is a great event!– even if I did not see many

of you at the MVP party…

And it is a greatlearning experience!

Let me keep you updated regarding localization of Visual FoxPro 8.0 …

Short overview

German FoxPro User Group – dFPUG Incorporated and personally owned Necessary to run German Conference

– this year 11th time w. maybe large binder again

Publishes loose-leaf magazine FoxX Professional with 200 pages A4 quarterly

Run website, SharePoint PortalServer, eNewsletter, Forum/Newsgroup, Wiki

New owner of framework Visual Extend

Localization started with a book

Not to be compared with the numbers of copies Hentzenwerke had in former times or still expects nowadays

Electronic version and additional material in Portal Server with named accounts (in-cluding subscriptions)

Additional titles in production

Resource Localization Toolkit

Contract with Microsoft via Ken Levy!– Microsoft legal needed time, but Ken insisted …

German, French, Czech GUI from Eugen Wirsing with help from Christof Lange and Igor Vit

German helpfile started September and will be done this month, timed beta download

Spanish helpfile available for free due to 60 helping hand doing 3.000 hours – ask Alex …

German version is not for free – it was cheap compared to MS but we‘ll loose money on it

Localization of VFP 9.0

Userinterface will be done again for different languages, maybe our resource files could be used for VFP 9.0 ?

We hoped this to be less additional work as changes from 7.0 to 8.0 were very heavy

Due to format changes it might even be a problem to find all these changes at all …

Starting with reportwriter enduser features

Main problem: Momentum

With VFP 8.0 each step was months away from the next one and always provided a good excuse to postpone update decision

German website, evaluation guide, localized user interface should be in time this time!

Next problem: Budget Hoped to take over FoxTalk but that did not

work, additional revenues needed …

Marketing for next version

combined with conference program we will invite people to a small roadshow on our own to present new reportwriter and VFP 9 to VFP6 & FPW & Xbase-developers

additionaly a set of regional events will be placed to give away „OpenSource“ for Small Business to get clients for members

And maybe we manage to publish at least some articles in magazines

Thank You!

for your patience… for this great event! for new reportwriter! for VFP 9.0!

See you in Las Vegas at Advisor DevCon!