Many of you will have experienced a much faster system response in easy-Speak over the last two weeks.

Firstly, huge thanks to John Novak from California who has done so much server and database tuning.
Also, thanks to Kit Barritt, currently in the UK, for database conversion and Nahid Akbar in Canberra who were online with John and me for the update itself.
No small commitment given the different timezones that we cover.

The software update today is the next step in improving performance.

Mostly it is around a re-write of the view_meeting screen,...

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Booking your attendance or taking a role at your club's meeting is now available in a mobile aware format within easy-Speak.

The mobile aware meeting agenda screen now allows you to:

• Book your attendance at the meeting,
• Confirm or decline a role that has been assigned to you
• Volunteer for an available role (if your club permits this)
• Touching the meeting location opens a map and your GPS enabled mobile device will give you the travel directions if you need them.
• Touching a fellow member's name on the screen opens...
  
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We expect to offer easy-Speak in several languages other then English during 2014.

Italian will be first and has been used as a test of the translation tools.
There has also been a good proportion of the translation work completed for German, Polish and French.
Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Lithuanian are also on the possibles list.
We are considering the possibilities for multi-byte character sets such as Chinese, Japanese.

Many thanks to Kit Barritt in Qatar and Francesco Fidele in Italy for giving their time so generously to this project.

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