Changing Languages and Latitudes

This morning started rather early as I had to catch a flight to Atlanta before heading on to Montréal, Canada for Blackbaud's 2008 Conference for Nonprofits. I'm hoping a few years of French in high school and college come back to me rather quickly. But somehow I doubt I'll be able to cough up more than some simple phrases. Montréal is a very cool place and I'm sure they're already preparing the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for next month's Grand Prix du Canada.

I'm really looking forward to seeing some of our Canadian clients and unveiling some very cool new features for them. We've got some great new enhancements for international language support in Blackbaud NetCommunity that will handle Canadian French, like le français québécois, as well as native French. We are doing some other i18n and l18n improvements as well that I hope will get people excited. More on all of this in a future blog post.

Across the pond tomorrow morning is the "Social Networking for Charities: People to People Fundraising" event in London. The event is part of the UK launch for the People to People Fundraising book. I understand that the event is completely sold out, which is great news! I'm sure I'll get some reports from how it went later in the week.