Project Managem
ent Days on April 19th & 20th 2012 were a great success. Hosted by Development Mail&Media, and Delivery Management Romania, the conference was attended by more than 60 colleagues from all corners of 1&1.
The participants were project and program managers, team leads, ScrumMasters, and other people interested in managing projects and development. Continue reading…
This is a guest post written by Stefan P.
It all happened on an April’s Tuesday. Calea Floreasca, the 9th floor in a building.
Three organizations interplaying. With its 20 members 1and1 was best represented, while the other two organizati
ons – Viitor Plus (Future Plus) and Şcoala de Valori (The School of Values) had only one member each: Gabriela and Stefan. Viitor Plus declared their values are “the desire to succeed”, “the agility”, “sustainability”, “fairness”, “openness” and “responsibility”, and brought them alive during the meeting.
It was a special meeting, some kind of workshop 
about the desire to ideally contribute or directly change this world we are living in. The audience attended the meeting out of different reasons, some want to offer back Continue reading…
What we are trying to achieve within the Presentation Skills Club, is to remove the pressure many of us feel when preparing lengthy presentations, and focus more on enhancing the presentation skills toolbox itself.
There we are – three sessions successfully done, and eagerly looking for more . Ethos, Logos, Pathos – we had them all, and it was absolutely great!
And so, we had Anca S. enchanting our minds when she spoke about some isolated locations deeply hidden in the Carpathians Mountains; then, we had Adrian F. doing a very interesting presentation about meetings management, and we were all ears to the very end of the presentation.
As we were gathering momentum, Laurentiu B. came with a subject that crowded the Qooxdoo meeting room: “How to take better pictures using Continue reading…
I have been working in this company for almost 5 years, and the first time I came here for the interview, I saw a
ping-pong table in one of the rooms, where employees could enjoy a break and relax for a while. I thought it must be great to work in such an office, and I would surely feel excellent here. The last 5 years confirm my first impression; I still love this environment, the people I work with and the projects that are being developed within the company.
Meanwhile, the Romanian team has grown, and so have the opportunities to enjoy a break, as besides the ping-pong table there is also a foosball table and a Continue reading…
It Takes a Community to Raise a Distribution
Tim Burke began with a quotation from Dirk’s presentation, earlier that day, saying “everything went fine until the distro’s showed up”, and explained the role of a Linux distributor and the role of the community in shaping the development of its releases (both Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux). By analogy with the old saying “it takes a village to raise a child” meaning that it’s not only the child’s parents who make the effort, but also everyone else around helps somehow, creating a Linux distribution is also based on the efforts of the whole community, Continue reading…
What is Pizza Day? What does it mean to 1&1?
Pizza Day is a tradition that started 5 years ago. It takes place every Wednesday (or Thursday if Wednesday is not possible due to the football tournament matches for example).
Who organizes it?
In the beginning it was Stela and also Vlad who took care of this and during the last 4 years Andrei has managed to organize it successfully.
Why do people order?
There are people who order because of the Continue reading…
It all started with a small group of people meeting every week in the Qooxdoo conference room to have fun after work as a musical exercise. A couple of weeks later, someone (but I can’t recall who the person was, as the idea was already floating in the air) voiced the suggestion of singing at the Winterfest! And so it began: we had three full weeks of brainstorming on the songs we were going to sing, we had rehearsals, getting to know better the colleagues while we were trying to solve the availability constraints. During all this time we were getting more and more impatient Continue reading…
Geo’s got a sharp passion two years ago: throwing feathered needles against a coloured target. It’s called darts and it is recognized as a sport with international competitions and champions.
Geo’s last competition took him a moustache away from the title of champion of the Romanian International Darts Open 2011, when he got eliminated by the winner of the tournament, Joe Murnan.
Now darts is a specific bars’ game, testing long-shot drinkers’ ability to aim peculiar waving targets with sharp needles. Kidding ? Truth is that darts is a sport of good-eye, steady hand, controlling breathe, cool-blooded blokes.
And there are over 250 professionals doing this as darts members of the Romania Darts Federation, of which Geo is the 30th. He has attended over 20 national and international contests, and recalls that the hardest game ever, except the endeavour against Murnan, was in October 2010, at the Bulgarian International Open.
During 2012 there will be 1-2 contests every month, until in June, when Continue reading…
1&1 Internet Romania is one of the few companies in Romania having a Technical Editing Department.
Thus, we received the invitation from TEKOM – The German Professional Association for Technical Communication and Information-Development – to give a new presentation to the students from the Technical University Bucharest. It is our second participation to an event organized by TEKOM.
This time our topic was Language Handling in Industry and Engineering with special focus on Software Localization for a Global Market. The students learned about the presence in Romania of Continue reading…
For the past 3 years, the Romanian Winterfest has been organized by the I:Dev team. This year, we, QA Hosting, also expressed the desire to plan this party, therefore it came down to a contest between us and I:Dev. After winning the competition with style, we had little time to prepare for this challenging “project”.
We had to find a club, choose a party theme, implement & deploy the Winterfest website and plan secret Santa (the classic secret gift exchange).
We were lucky that Mihaela, our GM’s assistant, was very eager to help and also not shy at all, despite the fact that Continue reading…
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