Opera Student Task Force

First Comments!

Wednesday, 4. May 2005, 10:25:13

Great, the increased exposure of our blog finally paid off: People wrote us!

Of course, we understand this is only the beginning, so we are patient.

People are interested to see some of our photos, but unfortunately today we cannot satisfy their curiosity. However, we all have appointments with the hairdresser today (the girls insisted on that), and tomorrow we are really going to look like rock stars. The only thing I wonder is whether Opera is going to pay for our new look...

Guys, I really have to tell you about our food&drinks preferences here at Opera (yes, they DO let us eat here, apparently for survival purposes). Radu loves pasta and salats, especially those with loooots of mayonnaise(don't worry he has his own desk, he can continue to 'expand'), Begi is crazy about crackers (I really wonder whether this guy ever eats anything else), and Andrea can't drink anythink but the world famous Norwegian Tropisk Nektar. The rest of us have less interesting preferences, but we really enjoy our lunch breaks.

The best part about these well deserved breaks

is the atmosphere in the canteen. Although English is sort of the official language(except for words like pizza, pasta, omlette, and so on...), you never know what language you're going to hear at the table next to yours. There are 30+ nationalities represented in this true Tower of Babel, but there is definitely more common understading in our small, dynamic company. Last week me and my fellow Romanian countrymen had the privilege to officially introduce Romanian among the languages spoken in the canteen, and to our surprise we still surprised some people, who probably had heard lots of these languages before.

We've studied in a lot of multinational environments, but this one at Opera is the most diverse one, probably one of the best representation of the 'global village' when we consider also that only a little more than 200 people work here. And basically this is what Opera 8 wants to be, a tool to recreate this global village on your computer wherever you are, by actively working with the amazing resources available on the Internet.

Talking about food, it's almost lunch time, so I really don't want to take the chance that Radu gets there before me...

Stay tuned for more news and, of course, tomorrow we are going to post the first photos, so you can have a clearer image of our workplace and the atmosphere here.

Bye!

Usual day at OperaSex at Opera

Comments

Eivind Figenschau Skjellum # 4. May 2005, 10:25

I knew it! There was no food left when I arrived in the canteen today. You said it was like that when you got there, but all I saw was you guys gathered around the tables licking your lips. Next time, I will make sure to be there before you

subtitles # 4. May 2005, 10:25

I know you guys have a heady place on the front page, but I'm sure me and the other fanboys would appreciate if you sent your posts along to Opera Blogs: http://my.opera.com/community/takeaction/blogs/ so we can hear more gossip about what those slackers at Opera get up to. An RSS feed and your url - that's all we ask

Steven # 4. May 2005, 10:25

I am sorry but I still am not sure what you guys are really supposed to do? Something about spreading Opera on the Internet. Isn't that what most of us are trying to do? How is your gig any different? Just want to get that clarified.

Opera Student Task Force # 4. May 2005, 10:25

Hi mxforce! We were expecting this, we had the same dilema when we first started this job. Basically, what we came to understand is that between your gig and ours there is a difference in the people we can reach. While you are doing a great job at reaching users, for which Opera is extremely grateful to you, we are trying to reach the 'opinion leaders' like magazines, IT gurus, all sorts of sites with which we can make link exchanges and so on, and we do this in the name of Opera Software, not in our own name.
Except for this we are doing some 'paper work' here, helping with all the necessary things connected with the launch of the new browser. And, God knows, there are lots of them. That is not to say that we do not need your help, on the contrary... we welcome any help, any suggestions, any idea for better doing our job. We are willing to try almost anything once.

Hope this clarified the issue a little bit. Keep up the good work and we will try to do the same.

Opera Student Task Force # 4. May 2005, 10:25

Hi subtitles! First of all congratulations for the phone... Thanks for the suggestion, we will provide to that. We'll try to convince our boss to let us get in the competition for the Nokia gadget as well... but I doubt we will be successful.