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You are about to join a group of young people who come from all over the globe to experience Germany...all interested in every single aspect: people,food,culture, history,and most importantly, working environment.
We are already excited to exchange ideas and share feelings with you!PBOX 2010 Karlsruhehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16895338457918546448noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-51409517499473111952011-04-25T12:37:00.000-07:002011-04-26T00:18:17.828-07:00bBox- the impact of internationals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> As the internal rules allowed us to reveal only a small interesting part of our work in the<a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbox-project-review.html"> <b>bBox Project</b></a>, and also, for the feelings and personal experiences that we shared with you, we are extremely happy to have had you as constant visitors of our blog. Thank you for letting us feel supported!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> I personally want to compare the <b>bBox blog</b> to an <b>energy capsule</b>! And very much hope that you can all have it as a reference to what an <b>AIESEC project based on exchange</b> can take the shape and dimensions of.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> We are very happy that this kind of project was embraced by one of the most important IT companies in Germany –<b><a href="http://www.fiducia.de/">Fiducia IT AG</a></b>– and very proud to have been part of an amazing working environment, benefit from the expertise of German colleagues and also, to have been offered an amazing 'playing' field. In our laboratory nothing was impossible and every need we had as a team in our development process had been satisfied. Now, w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4f81bd; font-size: 16px;">e are absolutely astonished by the results we achieved in only six months together, in a unique and diverse team.</span></span></div><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">University: </span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">University of Economics, Prague<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Field of study: </span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">International Management<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Most interesting achievement/ prize: </span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Award of Excellent Master’s Thesis (Evaluation of regulation in electricity industry) and Awarded project about Corporate Social Responsibility for Societe Generale<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Favorite tools: </span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Microsoft Project, Gantt Project<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Favorite (technical) website</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology"><span style="color: #1f497d;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">‘‘If someone masters the art of communicating serious issues and combining it with big portions of good humor, that is Stan. I believe I speak for my colleagues too when I say that our leader made our days at work. What he likes most is travelling, and this could be easily observed from his general knowledge of the world. He has visited more than 25 countries so far and among the most interesting experiences is Asia. Besides, he is able to conversate in English, Russian, German, Slovak and, of course, Czech. So, you choose the language. ’’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 119.25pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stan, I want us to begin with some funny details. I know that in the first phase, you had your phone interview with Fiducia IT AG representatives while being in Syria. Tell us more.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘ </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes, that’s right. When Fiducia scheduled the interview for me I was in Aleppo in Syria with 40 Celsius </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 16px;">degrees </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> and extreme humidity. So I was sitting in a shabby hotel room with no air-co and for an hour I was holding the phone next to my ear. Naturally, one sweat during the interview even at the room temperature, so after my interview I looked like after a football match.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">How did you feel about the opportunity of working for <b><a href="http://www.fiducia.de/">Fiducia IT AG</a></b>?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I definitely loved it. It was difficult to imagine that a company which provides core banking software for almost 800 banks, 100 thousand bankers and 66 million accounts, asks a group of international students to propose how could their user interface look like in the future. And not only that, Fiducia IT AG provided us with all the necessary resources, knowledge support and 6 months of freedom. That’s an opportunity window which does not open every day.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">You not only have academic background in the field of banking, but also have achieved working experience at Societe Generale and Uni Credit Bank. How do you perceive the banking world today?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I was always attached to the finance world, well… because the most basic rule says “cash is the king”. So, I always tried to understand the financial relations, since I know their importance in any kind of business. And this drove me to banking, which I took as my minor at university and also to some projects with banks, too.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">You had no experience with IT until the <b>bBox Project</b>. What do you think were the components that made you an effective leader in this context?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In any case, leading an IT project without previous IT experience is very difficult. Naturally, I tried to get the basics of software development and project management in IT, but sometimes I felt simply lost. In these cases, I had to rely on my team, which proved to be a very trustworthy one.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Later on, the team found its way to cooperate and I could finally focus on the project management, so ensuring the programmers get the right information from Nair and Clara, prioritize them and deliver code in time.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Your job was not only related to scanning this new environment and leading the team</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">You also got involved into building and shaping our new concepts for banking. Please explain in what way you did contribute for a change.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Stanislav Haba: </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 16px;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eventhough my primary role was project manager, I just cannot miss the opportunity to express my imagination how the future banking system could look like. In a later phase of the project, we made a very efficient concept development trio, when Nair float in out-of-the box-solutions, Clara put her process analytical input and I was consolidating it all with a little sniff of the business world.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stan, I kept trying to understand… What has been happening inside the leader’s mind all this six month time?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Simple idea ‘Managers do things right; leaders do the right thing.’ So, I needed to literally every day review, if we were going the right way. Since the team was quite passionate about pretty much anything and they would do a tremendous job even on absolutely not-project-related tasks, in my mind I thought again and again if everybody was at in any moment doing the task that would help reaching the project goal the most. </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I was really curious to know: how easy was for you to perceive us, as your team members, to sense our capabilities and capacity to execute tasks in a coherent way?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Good question. Every team needs time until they find the right working style and division of roles. For the bBox and naturally for me, it took approximately 2,5 months. It is long time, but one must take into account that we came from totally different backgrounds and we were supposed to work on innovation, where any standard or guideline would do only harm. After this time, I finally learned the strengths, weaknesses and capabilities of each member, so since then, we have been working (at least in my opinion) in a coherent and efficient way.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">You are also a very experienced AIESECer. Which is the most interesting project you have ran and how has all this been helping you in your work outside our organization?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In 2007, I spent almost a whole year as a project manager of Career Days. This is the biggest Czech career fair, with 40 top companies and 1700 students, who attend various sessions with those employers. This event required over 10 months of preparation, and translated into an organization committee of 70 people and 20 subcontractors. And my role was to deliver this event, from the first scratch of concept to closing report. Attractive experience, isn’t it?</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">What was bBox for you in the very beginning and please, tell me, to what extent is it different now?</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Stanislav Haba:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘‘</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The bBox at the beginning was a huge question mark for me: What should we do? How? What quality? What to do first? To be honest, for the first weeks I was sometimes a little bit lost, because the assignment was defined broadly, the team did not know each other and foremost those breakthrough ideas did not come when one requested.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, less than 48 hours before the end of the project, the bBox stands for amazing solutions, for prove of great things that young people can do, for successful cooperation between Fiducia and students, for easy banking systems, for financial services as fun and for the future of banking in general.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</span></div>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-7619527584940297272011-04-19T05:50:00.000-07:002011-04-19T05:54:48.488-07:00bBox in Prague<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is one of our nicest trips together...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Already nostalgic about the time spent together and exhausted after the great final presentation of our project today, we want to just enjoy this short video and share it with you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Claudia</div>PBOX 2010 Karlsruhehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16895338457918546448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-54076844692235847992011-04-15T06:10:00.000-07:002011-04-15T06:53:48.370-07:00Unforgettable meeting with Volksbank Karlsruhe<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></h2><h2 style="font-size: medium; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Tuesday, April 12, 2011, we had the third meeting with </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/01/bbox-visited-volksbank-karlsruhe.html">Volksbank Karlsruhe</a></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">. Mr. Achim Michel, </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">–</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Volksbank Karlsruhe Manager) and</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> Mrs. Silke Hoch</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">–</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Head of Department</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">–</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">were the Volksbank representatives to receive us this time. Even from the very beginning we could feel them eager for us to start the presentation of a six month work. So we did not keep the audience waiting but went directly to the focus of attention: </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">the bBox final prototype.</span></h2><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #1f497d; font-weight: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></div><div style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;">Firstly, we wanted to create a <b>simulation</b> of the bBox Prototype. To achieve this and also, a better understanding and easy to visualize testing session, the team thought of a more interactive way of doing it: a short play, with well defined roles:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">– Narrator 1: <a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/01/meet-bbox-ers-better-todays-special.html">Nair</a> – explaining <b>programmed</b> features<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">– Narrator 2: <a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-about-chinese-today-xi-huang.html">Xi Huang</a> – explaining <b>conceptual additional</b> features<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">– Banker 1: Paulo<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">– Banker 2: Delyana<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">– Customer: Felipe<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The first scenario, about a <b>customer to the banker meeting</b>, was played by Paulo, in the role of a banker , and Felipe, in the role of the customer. The customer had the goal of getting a consumer loan. So, the two bBox ‘players’ went together through the steps of a <b>consumer loan process</b>, both using a <b>tablet</b> device.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 13.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;"><br />
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</span></div>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-90307246047153573192011-04-06T02:29:00.000-07:002011-04-06T02:29:01.049-07:00Pipe, the free spirit in the bBox<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNGB3tDOVzk41_ku8DfsZkrqJ6fdXcswLKGAeT4Xz05eSnWzugMpBOUpnzLgat5eheJN3pcQsq7YkopQPdJVWqIRmj7wtqUaocZHfTziF9q36T8vgvF_eiaTdvfiD33YRmXIzL1tNYQ3w/s1600/Pipe.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNGB3tDOVzk41_ku8DfsZkrqJ6fdXcswLKGAeT4Xz05eSnWzugMpBOUpnzLgat5eheJN3pcQsq7YkopQPdJVWqIRmj7wtqUaocZHfTziF9q36T8vgvF_eiaTdvfiD33YRmXIzL1tNYQ3w/s640/Pipe.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 9.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">University: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Universidad Distrital Franciso Jose de Caldas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Field of study: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">System Engineering <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Favorite developer tools: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Eclipse, Power Designer <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Favorite (technical) website: <u>http://</u></span></b><u><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">www.google.com<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">’’Felipe (Pipe) is the ‘free spirit’ of the team. He would never get tired, since IT is what runs through his veins and keeps him focused. Life seems such an open field to him, so he shares this attitude within the project every day. Since in Germany, he used every single weekend for travelling to a lot of cities (Frankfurt, Berlin, Heidelberg, Cologne, Nürnberg, ) and also other countries. Switzerland, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain. What would you recommend him for a next trip?’’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">Pipe, you are a very charismatic person and we are all happy to be your colleagues. But you must have had a strong motivation to come all your way from Colombia to work here with us!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Felipe Goyes:</b> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Well… I can say that even from the very beginning, when I joined AIESEC, I was very much surprised about the large number of job offers in Germany raised on the platform. And since I was learning German before, it would all fit quite well in the context, so I just decided to apply. Eventhough some of the people could not imagine that I could </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">actually </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">achieve this goal, I succeeded: <b>if you want, you can</b>!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You are still studying System Engineering, but at the same time, have your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">own</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"> IT company</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">: <i><b>Making Solutions SAS</b></i>. So it is possible to work in parallel and be your own boss when you are passionate! But still, how did it all start and how did you manage so far with these activities?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Felipe Goyes: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ok, our company is not as big as Fiducia IT AG is, hahaha! Besides, I am not alone in this business, my brother (Juan Manuel Goyes) and a friend of mine (Andres Botia) who were studying with me at the same university are helping me all the time. Anyway, time is always something that you can arrange depending on your priorities. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px;">’’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</span></span></span>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-34132367360131713622011-03-31T03:22:00.000-07:002011-03-31T09:55:43.436-07:00How about Chinese today: Xi Huang<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJuIaVV3ixUbknvhDrc_tINUhWzZ3y5GWCiqhp4ivcBPl3scbRFcs-Xc6k_oDcKQBbC6VbMrN80IlL_74LI-U9Ffz-ocIKrISOSaT5N1ho-yUsL9sfbYV1UFLI9qaFbRcIZbg8s2gxU2m/s1600/Clara.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJuIaVV3ixUbknvhDrc_tINUhWzZ3y5GWCiqhp4ivcBPl3scbRFcs-Xc6k_oDcKQBbC6VbMrN80IlL_74LI-U9Ffz-ocIKrISOSaT5N1ho-yUsL9sfbYV1UFLI9qaFbRcIZbg8s2gxU2m/s640/Clara.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">University: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Peking University<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.3pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Field of study: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Software Engineering<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Most interesting achievement: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">participant in National High-Tech Research and Development Program, internship in Adobe<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Favorite developer tools: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eclipse, Star UML<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Favorite websites:</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/"><span style="color: #004080; text-decoration: none;">http://www.engadget.com</span></a>; http://www.download.oracle.com<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’From what I see every day, I am absolutely sure that you enjoy the work in the bBox Project just as much as your travelling. So, what does the project represent to you? ’’<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Xi Huang: </span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’bBox is expected to suggest, and hopefully set, a new way of doing <a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/03/bboxs-second-meeting-with-volksbank.html">banking</a> software</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">For me, the project means innovation, an opportunity to be remembered if the project is a success and, also, I strongly value it to be a very important experience of working in an international team. ’’<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’You are a <b>cybernetic specialist</b> in the <b><a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbox-project-review.html">bBox project</a></b>, which sure brings with it responsibilities. So, how exactly does the bBox challenge you? ’’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Xi Huang: </span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">’’To be honest, I didn’t know what a cybernetic specialist’s job was before coming here. The only thing I knew was it had something to do with processes. So, apparently<b>,</b> the first challenge </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">for me </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">was to find out what exactly I was supposed to do. As the project proceeded<b>, </b>more<b> <a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbox-project-review.html">challenges came on the way</a>.</b> For example, I didn’t have much knowledge about banking, so I had to learn some <b>banking processes</b> – which are in German! Thanks to my colleagues’ help, I made it and figured out the main elements in the process. But the biggest challenge is to handle the navigation. As you know the banking processes are complicated and confusing, so I have to think up a way to make it easier so that the bankers can have a clear picture of the process. ’’<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should then know that Heidelberg is the seat of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Heidelberg">University of Heidelberg</a> which is well-known far beyond Germany's borders.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Founded in 1386, it is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Germany#Universities_by_years_of_existence" title="List of universities in Germany"><span style="text-decoration: none;">oldest university in Germany</span></a> and was the fourth university established in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Holy Roman Empire</span></a>. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeducational" title="Coeducational"><span style="text-decoration: none;">coeducational</span></a> institution since 1899, today Heidelberg consists of twelve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty_%28university%29" title="Faculty (university)"><span style="text-decoration: none;">faculties</span></a> and offers degree programs at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate" title="Undergraduate"><span style="text-decoration: none;">undergraduate</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_education" title="Graduate education"><span style="text-decoration: none;">graduate</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation" title="Habilitation"><span style="text-decoration: none;">postdoctoral</span></a> levels in 100 disciplines.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most universally admired scientists of his generation, <b>Robert Bunsen</b> was a German chemist, who after years of formation in different universities such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttingen">Göttingen</a>, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4t_Kassel" title="de:Universität Kassel">Polytechnic School of Kassel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Marburg">University of Marburg</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wroc%C5%82aw" title="University of Wrocław">University of Breslau</a>, finally joined the <b>University of Heidelberg in 1852.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, his discovery of the use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_oxide" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">iron oxide</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">hydrate</span></a> as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_(chemistry)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;" title="Precipitation (chemistry)">precipitating agent</a> is still the best known <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">antidote</span></a> against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_poisoning" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">arsenic poisoning</span></a>. So, do not just ignore his imposing statue. He really deserves our attention and recognition, right?</span></span></span></span></div></div></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Actually, there are many historical churches in Heidelberg and its environs. But I chose to show you the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Church of the Holy Spirit</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">(founded in 1398)</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 150%;">, which has been shared over the centuries since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Protestant Reformation</span></a> by both Catholics and Protestants. It is one of the few buildings to survive the many wars during the past centuries. It was rebuilt after the French set fire to it in 1709 during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Grand_Alliance" title="War of the Grand Alliance"><span style="text-decoration: none;">War of the Palatinian Succession</span></a> and has remains of the tombs and epitaphs of the past Palatinate electors.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">This is how we started our great event on Tuesday, March 22<sup>nd</sup>, especially held for the initiators of the bBox Project and the members of the Marketing Department in Fiducia IT AG.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; line-height: 24px;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>What is Global Village?</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;">Well, in AIESEC, it stands for our most exciting event that celebrates diversity - it is that moment when we all gather and showcase the unique cultures from our home countries through food, customs, performances and costumes.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Well, as AIESEC members, we were extremely happy to import this amazing habit to Fiducia for one unforgettable evening.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="color: black;"><u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;">So, imagine the bBox members on Monday, after work! All doing the same thing: COOKING! And yes, this time, not ‘cooking ideas’, but real food,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">thoroughly</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>prepared for the next day.</span><u1:p></u1:p><span style="color: black;"><u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;">Ok, we know it was a lot of food… But of course we saved room for <b>Delyana Tomova’s</b> dessert. All those tiny <b>Baklava </b>rolls were not there to be ignored but tasted piece by piece. And we sure did. Sweet, juicy, full with hazelnut, this type of Turkish/ <b>Bulgarian</b> dessert was just the last detail, very important for a complete meal and happy participants.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif;"> Thanks, Delly!</span><br />
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</div>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-84322842375399119522011-03-23T07:36:00.000-07:002011-03-23T11:50:30.207-07:00Programmathon<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">As I said in </span><a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/02/meet-bboxers-better-this-friday-we-have.html" style="font-family: georgia;">my interview</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">, during my University studies, one of the most remarkable experiences I had was with </span><a href="http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc" style="font-family: georgia;">ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">. It made me learn a lot about teamwork and programming, and I am a very different person because of that.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size:small;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pqCxj320yCs/TYoMl0khQVI/AAAAAAAAAiU/5y9agetz5K0/s1600/DSC04182.JPG"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587292131613032786" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pqCxj320yCs/TYoMl0khQVI/AAAAAAAAAiU/5y9agetz5K0/s400/DSC04182.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">My team in the 2009 South American finals of the ACM ICPC</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size:small;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">In a nutshell, the contest has many teams of three persons each, that must study in the same university, and represent it, and each team has got a single computer. The sessions usually last five hours, and, in the beginning, the competition staff gives a booklet with difficult programming tasks in a number that can usually vary between 8 and 14. So, each team has to solve as many as possible and submit solutions to the judges. The winner is the team with the most problems solved, and ties are resolved by considering how fast you submitted your first correct solution (incorrect ones are penalized). </span><br /><span style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bKhljMuuDp4/TYoNWlLxlRI/AAAAAAAAAik/RyldO5WKKhA/s1600/peru_unb.jpg"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587292969296303378" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bKhljMuuDp4/TYoNWlLxlRI/AAAAAAAAAik/RyldO5WKKhA/s400/peru_unb.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Team logo of my university.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size:small;"> </span><span style="font-size:small;">One of the highlights is that whenever a team gets a problem solved, not only the score is updated, <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">but also, a colored balloon is given to the team, with the color being unique for each problem. Usually, the color that appears the most</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="Apple-style-span"> is the one of</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> the easiest problem. Each team has an unique way of celebrating the arrival of the balloon. In my</span> university the tradition was to make noises imitating turkeys. The logo of the team also reflects this behavior. </span><br /><span style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJQxN00QXdE/TYoNCPpyWwI/AAAAAAAAAic/R8aENg7Zud0/s1600/DSC04199.JPG"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587292619919219458" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJQxN00QXdE/TYoNCPpyWwI/AAAAAAAAAic/R8aENg7Zud0/s400/DSC04199.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:x-small;">Competitors watching the ceremony for the final result in Campinas, Brazil, in 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:small;"> </span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">In the final hour of the competition, the score would be frozen but balloons would still come, and it was a very big emotion when a balloon came. Also, the staff was very mean and would come close to the teams with balloons of the color of the problem </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="Apple-style-span">b</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">eing tried the most, just to tease us. In the final 15 minutes, even balloons wouldn't come anymore, and then the final result </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="Apple-style-span">would be announced</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> in a ceremony in which the final submissions to the judges would be judged one by one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, and</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">finally, the winner would be announced. This has been source of great moments in my university course, and one of the things I will miss the most. Nevertheless, the model can be also applied as a source of motivation to get huge programming tasks done, and this is actually what we are doing right now in the bBox! Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to introduce the PROGRAMMATHON!</span> </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_8F1zCVMQac/TYoNzXcVlUI/AAAAAAAAAis/5NwAT0pztRs/s1600/progr%2B2.png"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587293463823881538" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_8F1zCVMQac/TYoNzXcVlUI/AAAAAAAAAis/5NwAT0pztRs/s640/progr%2B2.png" style="display: block; height: 181px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 496px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">The contestants in the Programmathon: Me, Aldo, Pipe and Delly</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size:small;"> </span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">We have been programming with all our energies for some time now, and the concepts are really huge (Nair is very creative and gives us a lot of work!), so we have to split the tasks (as</span> <a href="http://pbox2010karlsruhe.blogspot.com/2011/03/scrum-meetings.html">explained here, in the SCRUM meetings</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">) and get them done. So in the meetings, the programmers estimate the amount of work that a given feature will take, and Stan then assigns a number of "Thumbs up" to each of them, and, after that, each programmer chooses which tasks to take that day (or couple of days). After accomplishing the task and presenting the result, we eagerly wait for the following meeting, during which Stan then moves the thumbs up that were posted on the white board with the tasks to the score wall. </span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8SYejfvnyQ/TYoOQkiqC7I/AAAAAAAAAi0/mgSRw7Jo6kQ/s1600/progr%2B4.png"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587293965556255666" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8SYejfvnyQ/TYoOQkiqC7I/AAAAAAAAAi0/mgSRw7Jo6kQ/s400/progr%2B4.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 346px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 462px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:x-small;">White board with the tasks and their owners, and the thumbs up waiting to be transported to the score wall<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-67TFeUh6itM/TYoOQ69ugtI/AAAAAAAAAi8/h83FgjYRQxs/s1600/progr%2B3.png"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587293971575374546" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-67TFeUh6itM/TYoOQ69ugtI/AAAAAAAAAi8/h83FgjYRQxs/s400/progr%2B3.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 361px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 482px;" border="0" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">The score wall. The thumbs up have the task they're about written on them</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:small;" ><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:small;" > </span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">There is no freezing score, but there is the overcoming of yourself to try to make the most in a shorter time frame, to get more and more thumbs up, and this brings more thrill to our work, that approaches the end really quick!</span> </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zbPTbEOhrcs/TYoPDCuvAgI/AAAAAAAAAjE/5_K2LXwdmXY/s1600/progr%2B6.png"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587294832653435394" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zbPTbEOhrcs/TYoPDCuvAgI/AAAAAAAAAjE/5_K2LXwdmXY/s400/progr%2B6.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 210px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">The technical team seeking some more thumbs up!</span> </span></div></div>Paulo Henrique Azevêdo Filhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13247087372063742204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-5977816969263402922011-03-22T06:06:00.000-07:002011-03-26T14:37:11.635-07:00Scrum meetings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separatorCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">For a considerable number of weeks now, almost every morning in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;">bBox project</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">starts with an already famous question of our </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Team Leader</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">, Stan: </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">'Soooo...<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: white; mso-shading-themecolor: background1;">scrum meeting</span></b>?</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> :)' (Also, <b>Scrum Master</b>, in this context. )</span></span></div><div class="separatorCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div class="separatorCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Scrum</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">is an iterative methodology for project management often seen in software development, although the Scrum approach was originally suggested for managing product development projects. So, Stan, adjusted the concept to the bBox’s needs and smartly plays the role of the Scrum Master, leading the sessions, which, for your record, don’t always last the 15 minutes timeboxed for. :)</span></span></span></div><div class="separatorCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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</div>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-10146119339441244302011-03-17T07:40:00.000-07:002011-03-31T04:41:17.509-07:00Delly, the geekiest girl in the bBox!<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6LXJ0zg0EZktaz1gwiJh45PhMdOWtsVK3Y86XAUKHFDxowiW4yIUpLUylL2yVZm9lfZx_kh31GWwY7XPd_g8x7GJ9eglp0MWYxqLYab7JETybPRNrpOsZCCAptMluLElXmD0RminYZC9/s1600/Delly.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6LXJ0zg0EZktaz1gwiJh45PhMdOWtsVK3Y86XAUKHFDxowiW4yIUpLUylL2yVZm9lfZx_kh31GWwY7XPd_g8x7GJ9eglp0MWYxqLYab7JETybPRNrpOsZCCAptMluLElXmD0RminYZC9/s1600/Delly.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6LXJ0zg0EZktaz1gwiJh45PhMdOWtsVK3Y86XAUKHFDxowiW4yIUpLUylL2yVZm9lfZx_kh31GWwY7XPd_g8x7GJ9eglp0MWYxqLYab7JETybPRNrpOsZCCAptMluLElXmD0RminYZC9/s640/Delly.png" width="640" /></a><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> University:</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Technical University Varna</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Field of study:</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Microsoft Information Technologies</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Favorite developer tools: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Eclipse, Notepad++</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Favorite (technical) websites</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">: </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">http:// www.javaranch.com; http://</span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com/"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; text-decoration: none;">www.stackoverflow.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span></b></span>Delyana</b> is the girl who would not say <b><i>no</i></b> to always working more and the programmer who was made to see solutions right away. Never seen such a patient, firm and pacifist girl at the same time. So, Java specialists, you have Delly to exchange ideas with!</span></span><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Coches: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span></b>Delly, I first posted my perception about you, written some time ago - it still hasn’t changed. In my eyes, you are the <b>strong woman </b>of the programmer’s team in the <b>bBox Project</b>, in the sense that your points of view and suggestions are always followed and valued by the three guys. <b>How do you feel working in bBox with Paulo, Aldo and Felipe?</b></span><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ”</span></b></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Well, the world of software development is often considered to be a male’s field. There is even this saying <b>‘Women programmer is like a guinea-pig. Not from Guinea nor looks like a pig’.</b> That's why a girl must really be persistent and ferm when expressing opinions to be taken seriously by the male programmers. And now I must confess that I feel really lucky when it comes to working with the <b>bBox boys. </b>For such a short period since we started developing our ideas, we built a really good level of communication and distribution of tasks and, most importantly, we always provide help when needed. Thank you, guys. ”</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I started being really curious ever since I found out you graduated university with a <b>golden medal</b>. Is it a real one or rather a figure of speech used to rank the student’s results in Bulgaria?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Actually the golden object is a badge with the logo of the university, but the idea is the same as of the medals in the <i>Olympic Games</i>. Every university rewards its students for achieving high scores during all the academic years and I ( well ... mostly my parents ) was proud to be in such a position. ”</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">bBox is not your first experience in Germany. You also studied </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">in Magdeburg</span><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, developing your master thesis there. What did you write about?</span><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Exactly one year before the bBox project, I participated in the Erasmus program in Magdeburg. That was my first contact with Germany and I was really astonished by the fact that everywhere I would meet … Bulgarians. It turns out that in the <b><i>University of Magdeburg</i></b> are being educated more than 800 students from Bulgaria, so I felt a little bit like home. The topic of my thesis was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>‘</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Assessing the influence of the human factors in the process of software development’</b>, but please, please don't make me explain to you what is that ;)”</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Got it! Long and complicated story </span><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Now, you are a S<b>oftware Solutions Developer </b>and, more specifically, a Java specialist. What led you to this level of profficiency? I guess you have a bit of your <b>own history with Java…</b></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“In my university we are thaught a little bit of everything, so I had this basic idea of what Java is and in my third year I applied for a really extreme course of Java development and I got to love it. Still, I must say that for me every language is just syntax and formation rules, once you have the vision of how to solve problems algorithmically.”</span> </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">You have worked so far as a software developer in two different companies. Tell us what was the hardest task or goal to be reached?</span><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ Yes, I have now more than 2 years and a half of experience in a team and I have been blessed to work with amazing people. I think that in team work there is no personal success or failure. Yet, my biggest challenge was in my previous company when I was implementing an entire module of the application by myself at the same time with my university examination session … tuhhh a lot of nights without sleep. ” </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches: </span></b><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ </span></b><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Great </span></b><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">! Well, it's the same i</span></b><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">f we go back to bBox: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been closely observing you and, honestly, I’m amazed: never before have I seen a young peer working with a smile on her face and seeing no obstacles in her way: ‘Why not trying this…?’ , ‘Ok, but let’s do it this way…’<b> How do you stay fresh?</b></span><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ”</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ Being a developer means to be able to think of solutions to problems and I consider it natural for the work that me and boys do. I believe that exactly in such discussions are born the best implementation ideas or… at least , we all agree on a workaround. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> As for the smile, well if you greet an obstacle with a smile, it might </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 16px;">‘</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 16px;">get scared away</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 16px;">’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 16px;"> and get fixed by itself. Try it … it doesn't hurt :) ”</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="color: #262626;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span></b>Aldo was talking in the interview we had about you learning a completely new programming language in only one week. That time you closely worked with him and Clara in the <b><i>Apple vs. Android competition</i></b>. Your feeling about it</span><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 800; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d;">?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">”</span></b></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: #262626; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></b></div><b> </b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria;"><b>Delyana Tomova: </b></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ I felt curious … I always feel curious when it comes to learning something new. This competition really put our adrenaline high! But, for me, it was really important that it didn't separate us into two fronts of a war zone and we all accepted the results with respect and dignity. Working with Aldo is really easy and he is always there to help (Thanks, Aldo! ), but sometimes he tends to put a task in a hash table and forget the key instead of adding it to a stack ;)”</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: #262626; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches: </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span></b>So, is bBox what you really imagined it to be or it challenges you even more? If so, in what way?</span><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ”</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: #262626; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Delyana Tomova: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ I came to Karslruhe with absolutely no idea what I was going to do in this project … I knew I would have to program, but the language, device or type of application were mystery to me. So, it surprised me a lot, especially in the beginning with the creative activities and brainstorming games, because such tasks were not that familiar to me. As for the programming, yes the language was completely unknown up to 1 month ago, but now I feel good using it and I think we all are handling the application pretty good.”</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color: #262626; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="color: #262626;"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Claudia Corches:</span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b style="color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ </span></b><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">What is are the things you will carry in your heart forever from all this bBox e</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">X</span><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">change experience</span><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 800; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f497d;">?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">”</span></b></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #262626; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> Delyana Tomova:</span></b></span> </b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“ All the bBox members are amazing persons which will occupy a place in my hearth forever. The attitude and working conditions that Fiducia provided for us are remarkable and I am thankful to LC Karlsruhe for their great job of getting us all matched here in sunny Karlsruhe. Thank you, guys (hugs)!!!” </span><br />
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</a>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-27307007958482467282011-03-16T06:50:00.000-07:002011-03-16T07:39:16.925-07:00bBox Project Review<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> <b>More than four months since the international bBox team has started working in Fiducia IT AG!</b></span><b> Enjoy a sort of a review of our working stages in the bBox project!</b><br />
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</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Do you still remember? I think the AIESECers do: how could they forget the days when people from all over the world were landing in Frankfurt? :) </div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">First, find out that the first day at work in Fiducia IT AG for the eight of us is memorable: all enthusiastic, very curious about the company, bBox, knowing almost nothing about each other.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3DsqurVdZ0k5LI0MuPkgLgMAi7jAZexT1yH25-V8SAxSSt0-HS76UrVeoBU_KrHbUrGsoXboyARbUAo8DLaCDh7euOPoM4JgDKYrjUK0hgoaGakEahJAWmatnDCuIWrtJ-5m8rCVuoVS/s1600/7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3DsqurVdZ0k5LI0MuPkgLgMAi7jAZexT1yH25-V8SAxSSt0-HS76UrVeoBU_KrHbUrGsoXboyARbUAo8DLaCDh7euOPoM4JgDKYrjUK0hgoaGakEahJAWmatnDCuIWrtJ-5m8rCVuoVS/s640/7.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Our working space prepared and the Fiducia Tour made our second day back then. It was the starting point for us to become aware of the real dimensions and importance of Fiducia, and the new 'playing field' created for our <span style="color: #444444;">innovative project. At the same time, reaching the kind look in the faces of the people already working here<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, made us feel more than welcomed.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Next: <b>Introduction week</b> smartly organized<span style="color: #444444;"> by both Fiducia, through Mrs. Leonie Bartz and </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">by AIESEC <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">members. It was </span><b>bBox</b> <b>Team building</b> indeed, efforts without which we couldn't actually become friends that easily. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8DuYK_HngZ2uMmRAYxzutsS00A6-G7iR7jGjShk94ssOAHbFNwqctAk3-RA5mtonNIwsyGcjBnaw9hdXFGZ7We6hJB_LXlvQjF6j5TZsm44DRfpeNSWDefm8lrsaKI_B4hq9T4Ygwp8D/s640/intro+week.png" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana;"> In the photo: Johannes Fischer, AIESEC Karlsruhe LCP (Local Comitee President) at that time, together with Friddie<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> (</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Friederike Gairing, VPICX Karlsruhe 2009)</span></span> <b>-</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana;"> great speaches, beautiful minds and very important pieces of advice for an outrageous project to be 'cooked'.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana;"> But, what about working?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana;"> Well, there was a time, in the very begining, when, after finally deciding how to arrange the desks in the existent space, choosing 'neighbours' and dealing with tons of cables and all sort of wires, <b>THE bBox OFFICE was neat and clean :)</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"> <b>First real challenge</b> for us and, especially for our project leader, Stan : develop a <b>working style</b> in a team with 3 technical members, 2 cybernetic specialists, a creative member and a marketing and communication member.</span></span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>brainstorming</b> (ingenous methods, life experience influence, cultural elements, 'bank of the future')</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>research and documentation</b> (</span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">most interesting ideas applicable to banking, and most specifically, to a new graphical interface</span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">) </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>meeting Fiducia specialists</b> (raise feedback, set coordinates)</span></span></span></li>
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</div>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-51524961195902297362011-03-14T03:42:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:30:50.584-07:00Fiducia canteen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> Without any doubt, the lunch time belongs to the highlights of the day in the office. Usually the interesting part starts with agreeing on time to go for lunch that definitely is not planned the same for everybody in the team. So as I, the first-hungry-one, persuade the others – especially the Latinos – who still cannot believe that some people can have lunch before 2 p.m, we set for the quest for food.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span> After lunch, the excellent treatment of stomach is (at least in my and Paulo’s case) concluded with a cup of freshly minced and brewed coffee that makes an amazing dot after lunch and prevent from sleepy digestion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Well, this all is enabled by the canteen & cafeteria employees who surely were recruited from the academy for nice people. Always smiling, extremely fast, helpful, coping with any problem with elegance and professionalism..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #262626; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> Stanislav Haba</span></span></div>PBOX 2010 Karlsruhehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16895338457918546448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-40420202117670154072011-03-13T04:36:00.000-07:002011-03-14T05:34:09.021-07:00bBox team: Movie recommendation<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From the series ‚When the bBox team is not @ work’ </span></span><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></strong><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Friday, it was movie night for the bBox Team. Paulo, our Cybernetical Specialist from Brazil, prepared a very impressive and representative movie for his country, more specifically, for Rio de Janeiro: <strong><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Tropa de elite </em></span></strong>– explosive, intrigueing, dinamic, a story that highlights the efforts of both the drug lords to protect their business and the brazilian police to fight against it. Continuous ‚guerra’! Strongly recommend you to see it!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Plot:</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Set in 1997, in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro"><span style="color: #4a442a; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rio de Janeiro</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, <i>Elite Squad</i> follows the lives and exploits of a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOPE" title="BOPE"><span style="color: #4a442a; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">BOPE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> captain named Nascimento and his two potential heirs-in-command, Neto Gouveia and André Matias, rising from the ranks of general PMERJ (the state military police) to BOPE (later it is revealed that Nascimento wants to leave the force because his wife is pregnant with his first child).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While Neto Gouveia is a quick-tempered, tougher man, André Matias refuses to compromise his ideals of peace and equality. The latter is also a student of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law"><span style="color: #4a442a; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Law</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> at a university in Rio, where his upper class friends are unaware of his job as a policeman, and are clearly shown as "spoiled" kids that tend to see the police as a repressive unit.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Preceding the visit of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II"><span style="color: #4a442a; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pope John Paul II</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to Rio, the plot unfolds and we are introduced to the day-to-day drug busting operations inside Brazilian <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favelas" title="Favelas"><span style="color: #4a442a; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">favelas</span></a></i>, ruled by well-armed and powerful drug leaders, led by the Brazilian elite unit, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOPE" title="BOPE"><span style="color: #4a442a; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">BOPE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, and the corruption that affects part of the PMERJ.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 4.8pt 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(<a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">http://www.wikipedia.org/</a>)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <img src="http://oglobo.globo.com/fotos/2007/09/25/25_MVG_cult_tropa_dentro.jpg" /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: both; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Filming style:</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: both; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><em>Tropa de Elite</em></strong> was shot on 35 mm Kodak film, using handheld Panavision cameras. The handheld camera gives Tropa de Elite a strong documentary style. <br itxtnodeid="328" /><br itxtnodeid="327" />There is prominent film grain present. Contrast is often pushed, so highlights tend to be blown. Level of detail is good, though not spectacular. The use of a handheld camera combined with a lot of panning/movement is causing a lot of motion blur. Black levels overall are good, but shadow detail is a bit lacking during many of the the night scenes. <br itxtnodeid="324" /><br itxtnodeid="323" />Colors are all over the place. The director obviously had no desire to give this movie a naturalistic appearance. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: both; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"></span><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<a href="http://www.highdefforum.com/">http://www.highdefforum.com/</a></span>)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Watch here the official movie trailer:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/_V_nZNWPYQk/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_V_nZNWPYQk&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_V_nZNWPYQk&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: Calibri;">Enjoy, </span></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> ''So, what?'' would Nadine ask herself. Besides, we do not see each other so often since the <strong>implementation</strong> of the concepts is the TOP PRIORITY of the bBox Team and the 'laboratory' seems more and more like our home, as we really enjoy spending a lot of our time inside the company. :) So, of course, I 'dragged' and 'dropped' her into our 'world', served her coffee and kept her busy running the tablet. She was the right person to detect potential bugs in our application :))</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEdOPynlUgfsK-MwBPkx7aETkWiHcIG8Bg5EwV3nTrk3u6wKf_ABy1yM_OKOOo9r6L9gh3z1yesXk8T7dxm7clllRCRg4iGpnFBKZC-xFWHnVulp0h9GQLUSppYuYDd4HSIdRnsW-P3B_/s1600/nadine+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEdOPynlUgfsK-MwBPkx7aETkWiHcIG8Bg5EwV3nTrk3u6wKf_ABy1yM_OKOOo9r6L9gh3z1yesXk8T7dxm7clllRCRg4iGpnFBKZC-xFWHnVulp0h9GQLUSppYuYDd4HSIdRnsW-P3B_/s640/nadine+2.png" width="640" /></a> Group photo in the end before lunch in our lovely restaurant. No party or eating facts yet! Fiducia Canteen post coming up next! Hold your breath till then!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10-FgtXSEGZIEQREQkVZUcnRSqMGMUmsoNZJjEmmx3p9WgZOUaio0uU0v8tDLEPNw8dJc3i5PYoAF8KqkgDo30JWB7DaGNiGnST8VSO9bmVjiZ5K_v5mYdOJDx5HJNe1_Px-dZFSmK8Bo/s1600/nadine+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10-FgtXSEGZIEQREQkVZUcnRSqMGMUmsoNZJjEmmx3p9WgZOUaio0uU0v8tDLEPNw8dJc3i5PYoAF8KqkgDo30JWB7DaGNiGnST8VSO9bmVjiZ5K_v5mYdOJDx5HJNe1_Px-dZFSmK8Bo/s640/nadine+1.png" width="640" /></a> Cheers,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-33221886602130869642011-03-07T05:50:00.000-08:002011-03-07T07:30:12.905-08:00Aldo, in love with technology!<span style="color: #004080;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ’’Aldo is the bBox member with most IT ‘girlfriends’: his personal MacBook, his iPhone, an iPAD, a Mac Book Air…and he loves them all. No need for sales skills, he is so passionate, that he would convince anyone to buy such devices from Apple. And he could also promote Fiducia’s canteen and German food everywhere in the world. So, feel free to suggest other German dishes for him to try.’’ (bBox Team)</span></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #004080; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">University</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">:</span></b><span style="color: #004080;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Technological University of Panama</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Field of study: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">System and Computing Engineering</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Favorite developer tools: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">XCode, Interface Builder, Notepad++, Netbeans.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Favorite (technical) website</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx"><span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">http://www.see.stanford.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, http</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">://www.developer.apple.com, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.blog.iphone-/"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">http://www.blog.iphone-</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> dev.org</span><br />
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<span style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #004080; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: auto auto 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Someone in our office is always HOT! He is quite a weird Panamanian for, instead of freezing here in Germany, he would really enjoy the chilly weather in winter and always keep the windows open… to our despair. : )</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''Aldo, speaking of your country, I would start by asking what do you love the most about Panama? And please don’t answer ‘Apple!’: )''</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''Well, I really love so many things about my country, but let’s just name some: the beaches, the sunshine and the twilight; the people, always committed to make a better country out of Panama; the tourists that come from around the world; the mixture of the technological and traditional, the growing business medium and large companies, and the Panamanian food, of course, Claudia!''</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''Alright! My next destination: Panama</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> But, back to Germany, what is the first useful thing you feel you really learned since living here?''</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''I feel I have learnt a lot, especially from a personal and professional point of view. First, the discipline from the German culture, has helped me become more precise and a better planner. Second, I really improved a lot my leadership skills, and also grew as a team worker in my lovely programming team.''</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''You are a <i>System and Computing Engineer Licentiate</i>. Why did the bBox project attract you so much?''</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''Wow! The bBox Project really caught my attention because my background knowledge and experience really fitted the job description. But also because the project was made in Germany - the country that I always wanted to study and live in for its amazing culture and constant technological innovations, among other things.''</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''Almost a month and a half ago, we were finding ourselves in the 'choosing device' stage, analyzing both the Android and Apple platforms in the context of a really challenging bBox competition. What was your task?''</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''My main task in this competition in the begging was to guide Clara and Delyana, into the Objective C (programming language for Apple devices): just giving moral support and transferring my little knowledge so that they could reach the goal of the competition… In the end they both made it as planned- built an easy application using gestures as suggested. What makes me happy is that the girls really learned this language from scratch in just one week, because from the beginning everybody thought that this could be a barrier to achieve the aim of the project.''</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b></span> ''<span style="color: #1f497d;">Please describe for our friends, why?''</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''Well, everybody was a Java developer and I was the only one with Objective C skills. Fortunately, after only one month and a half, since their first contact with this programming language, I can say that I really achieved my goal with this amazing programming team (Felipe, Delyana, Paulo and me).''</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''What did you achieve in the end?''</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''We have learnt great things together like giving and receiving feedback with having a lot of fun in between. This makes it easier for us to go through the ideas and make them real. So us working as a team, for real, is my greatest achievement in bBox!''</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''Super! Than what was the biggest challenge in bBox so far?'' </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> "Every idea in the bBox Project is a challenge, and I am really into it! I enjoy this so much, that I dream them at night, always thinking about solutions, going through the best approach to make that idea become reality. Now, to answer your question I called the biggest challenge in bBox 'Make the iPads talk to each other', feature that is actually present in the application itself for more functions that you can imagine.''</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Claudia Corches:</b> ''You are a specialist in iPhone programming and also, very passionate about Robotics. What were your most interesting projects or achievements?''</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Aldo Castro:</b> ''You are right Claudia, I am very passionate about robotics and mobile device programming because I find both areas as already making the trend for the next generations. Besides, as an engineer, I feel committed to solving problems for the very sake of science ; in this context I have developed applications starting with web applications for dentist clinics, hotel businesses and other web solutions for web advertisement and promotion, in general; also, for a year and a half now, I have experience in developing mobile applications in Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">About my knowledge in robotics… it all began in the university, in the last four semesters, when I took courses of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Formal languages, Automata and Compilers. In my last year, in a group of 6 students, we developed a robot with Lego Mindstorms Technology that could write numbers. After that, we rebuilt this robot to make it pick up an object and give it to another one, in a robot community made for the entire student’s course – it was a final project of six months.''</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See here a bit of what I filmed today:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzGRIr-9Hjm6VQ7l4CV4zTJb9lyDMV3bdU3UwzZWp2tNJgq0T5SpnF0sfe2DlBRb6WXuOyrCAPVDlWD5YQwug' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Claudia Corcheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08794802416841036447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-68429119333224171052011-03-04T07:41:00.000-08:002011-03-04T08:30:25.479-08:00bBox event in Fiducia's Canteen<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: ";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On Monday, February 28th , we launched the Canteen Event in Fiducia to show our concepts to our colleagues and provided a beta prototype on iPad for trying. Thanks to Claudia, who dedicated a lot to planning and trying to organize everything perfectly, and Nair, who was of great help in designing, we had a good start which is important for success</span>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: ";"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another pleasant thing was to meet Jon "Maddog" Hall, whom I had met some years ago in Brazil and could now have lunch with. I also attended to one of his talks in the conference, in the Open Source Forum.</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgze88_uVddbscsRnrenCHim2LpZXz2nxrvRp_nkyxwUekaQE6AH1wsM80ioAI5NGBkyzXOZnLw0RdKAP8VuG2fmfKgTs4YdC-s6ZALkTuQ51vmobQXwE2OWMnWpYjcCCj8TzPsA_5cVkU/s1600/fid+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgze88_uVddbscsRnrenCHim2LpZXz2nxrvRp_nkyxwUekaQE6AH1wsM80ioAI5NGBkyzXOZnLw0RdKAP8VuG2fmfKgTs4YdC-s6ZALkTuQ51vmobQXwE2OWMnWpYjcCCj8TzPsA_5cVkU/s640/fid+4.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">bBox team with Jon "Maddog" Hall, from Linux International, and a friend of mine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet another interesthing fact was that we were using T-shirts with LED displays with texts about the project and a QR code that redirected to this blog. This actually attracted a lot of attention, with people taking pictures of the QR code to go to the blog, taking pictures with us for the blinking T-shirts or just asking where they could get a similar piece of clothing =]</span><br />
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</div></div>Paulo Henrique Azevêdo Filhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13247087372063742204noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235963483502617322.post-429501159307156102011-02-21T10:56:00.000-08:002011-02-21T15:58:27.117-08:00CeBIT, here we come!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"> <span style="color: #444444;"> What better way to be geeky than participate to the most important fair related to the latest trends in technology: CeBIT!</span></span></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"> What's new, attractive, user friendly, efficient or fancy? What are the most interesting telecommunication and IT companies and products? CeBIT is on our agenda and we want to know all these! On Wednesday, March, 2nd, we will be participating to the the largest international fair in the field held annualy in Hannover.</span></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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