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UPDATE: THERE WAS A FIRE ALARM - CHANGE OF LOCATION 12:30 - 4 pm TO RESTAURANT VLTAVA (ground floor)!
Update details: I got chased out at 12:05 from Kirjasto 10, and could not get ProZ.com to work properly on my mobile, so now I (Ronja) am sitting with my laptop at restaurant Vltava, which is between the library and the railway station. Call me: +358 40 502 8050
Original description: We meet for an afternoon of learning from each other, 12 noon to 4 PM at Kirjasto 10 (group work room / ryhmätyötila) on Elielinaukio, beside the Main Railway Station (Helsingin päärautatieasema). Afterwards we round up the work week by relaxing at restaurant Leonardo, Kaivokatu 6 (table reserved for 10 from 4 PM).
Face to face meeting in Helsinki city center 12 noon ->
Oct 3, 2013
Yes, that would be my preferred topic, but I am flexible.
Sorry, I only now remembered to add the description: We meet for an afternoon of learning from each other, 12 noon to 4 PM at Kirjasto 10 (group work room / ryhmätyötila) on Elielinaukio, beside the Main Railway Station (Helsingin päärautatieasema). Afterwards we round up the work week by relaxing at restaurant Leonardo, Kaivokatu 6 (table reserved for 10 from 4 PM onward).
Yes, that would be my preferred topic, but I am flexible.
Sorry, I only now remembered to add the description: We meet for an afternoon of learning from each other, 12 noon to 4 PM at Kirjasto 10 (group work room / ryhmätyötila) on Elielinaukio, beside the Main Railway Station (Helsingin päärautatieasema). Afterwards we round up the work week by relaxing at restaurant Leonardo, Kaivokatu 6 (table reserved for 10 from 4 PM onward).
I will take along my laptop and the library has WLAN, so some kind of virtual participation is likely possible, though I cannot promise that the connection will work well (there are pretty heavy renovations going on in that building at the moment). My Skype name is "ronja-am", so please send me a Skype contact request where you mention the ProZ powwow so that I don't mistake it for spam. ▲ Collapse
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Tarja Karjalainen Finlândia Local time: 05:18 inglês para finlandês + ...
Thanks for the info
Oct 3, 2013
Thanks for the info - topic not relevant to me, then, but have a great afternoon!
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Anders Warnqvist Suécia Local time: 04:18 inglês para sueco + ...
Kanske nästa gång, vilket borde göras snart
Oct 3, 2013
Tyvärr blev det mycket som skulle passa in under fredagen, så jag kan inte komma den här gången. Ett mycket trevligt initiativ Ronja, jag hoppas det blir fler översättarträffar i Helsingfors vid senare tillfälle.
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Please learn from my (almost) worst case experience...
Oct 4, 2013
You are welcome to spot the mistakes that I made and not make the same ones when you organize your first ProZ.com powwow (or any other meeting with people you have not met before).
OK, so as soon as I had gotten into the meeting room and started to hook up my laptop, there was a fire alarm and the library staff chased me out. At this point I realized that I had no mobile phone numbers to either of the other registered attendees, I did not know what they looked like, and I was wearing ... See more
You are welcome to spot the mistakes that I made and not make the same ones when you organize your first ProZ.com powwow (or any other meeting with people you have not met before).
OK, so as soon as I had gotten into the meeting room and started to hook up my laptop, there was a fire alarm and the library staff chased me out. At this point I realized that I had no mobile phone numbers to either of the other registered attendees, I did not know what they looked like, and I was wearing a rather different brown hat than in my profile picture, so if they anywhere in the milling crowd (the whole 10-floor building was evacuated), they might not recognize me. I talked to a couple of people who were speaking English, but no luck.
Next, about 12:15, I tried to connect to ProZ.com with my Nokia N97 mini, which I had never done before, and the experience was a huge disappointment. A big ad for the virtual conference covered my whole screen and I could not get rid of it - the "close" button on it was unresponsive. I wasted five minutes on that.
Thankfully there is a large restaurant, Vltava, next to the building that houses Kirjasto 10 (the library where we were supposed to meet), and I guessed that around noon on a Friday there would be room for setting up shop with my laptop, which there also was. Only their free WLAN did not work, so I wasted yet another five minutes fighting with that before I fell back on my own (pay-per-use) mobile network connection. Around 12:30 I finally had a working connection to this powwow page.
Editing an update to the powwow description took only a short while, and after writing this (while receiving two unrelated phone calls) it is now 12:55. My sincere apologies to anyone who might be wandering around in central Helsinki looking for me! ▲ Collapse
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