Last days in the US

Wow the last day in the office/at home has come and gone quickly. Both Tracey and I have been busy cleaning, packing, preparing, and getting ready in general. It seems like the last few weeks have flown by.

My last two official functions in the SLO office were to give the International Expansion Webinar and ended with the Open Source at Shopatron speech at Softec. It was fun to bring the International Shopatron platform out in a more formal manner to the existing customers of Shopatron. I think it was well received as well. Then the evening talk at Softec was really fun as well. The turn out was pretty strong from what I generally remember of Softec meetings and I think most people actually enjoyed the talk that Dave D and I gave.

I can believe that we are going to be on our way finally tomorrow. I really wouldn't be that anxious about the flight if it were note for the 2 yr old bundle of energy. I am just not sure how he will handle the 10+ flight.

Wish us luck.

A wonderful send off

Thanks to all those who were the send off party tonight. I really appreciate your kind words and festive atmosphere. I think the Black Sheep was a fine place to have it. Thanks to Jenny and Beckie for organizing and getting the wonderful hats.

I will post some truely frightening pictures as soon as I have them

International Implementation Insanity

The international sales pipe is working well in the early running and now it comes time to getting it all pulled together. I am very excited by the deployments we have at hand. We will be launching stores in the music, sporting goods, and optics categories. It makes me think of the adage of be careful what you ask for. We have much to learn and adapt the existing Shopatron platform to, which is good.

Our engineering team has been working very hard to extend the existing Shopatron functionality to think globally in terms of language and currency. And now the implementations team gets to pickup and extend our processes into the global landscape. It makes me very thankful that there are so many smart and capable people here to solve the challenges and embrace the changes that are coming. We just started our first implementations person for the EU team, Ben Greenaway. He will be working with the US implementations team and the engineering team to change