French blog in English

In my latest posting, I referred to Gilles' blog where the latest version of the vinivi logos are published.

Go visit his blog on http://vinivi.blogspot.com ... it is also in English now!

vinivi logo - check it out and give us your opinion!

Our webdesigner in France has been busy creating a logo for vinivi.
First he made roughs which we commented upon, new roughs and more comments.
Then coloured logos and the vague idea got clearer and clearer.

Now we'd like to have some more opinions about the last version. Gilles had published these on his blog.
Go and see them on http://vinivi.blogspot.com and tell us what you think!

Offices

I've been living in Mauritius for over 5 years and Gilles almost 3. When we asked the owner of the 'supposed-to-be-our-future-offices' if he had the necessary development permit, he confirmed... 'no problem, by saturday you'll have it!'

'You see Gilles? Nothing to worry about!' Gilles had his doubts! Surprised was I when he told me on satuday 'I told you so!'

So without development permit, no offices; without offices, no license!

So now what?
Gilles comes up with the solution. He had heard about an incubator in Port Louis, created by the Government for IT businesses only.
We are only waiting for the final ok from their side but it seems that we can proceed! In that way we'll be able to obtain our license!

In the meantime the owner of the 'supposed-to-be-our-future-offices', will make sure that the necessary permit will be obtained and then we'll move in!

Second employee

I've been neglecting the blog and therefore missed to announce the first working day on 18th April of our second employee. That is.. the first official working day because Jean Francois has been busy developing vinivi.com since quite a while now.

In order to give me an idea of how complex programming is, Gilles explained me that it is like building a house of cards. Changing the smallest thing in the codes, can make the whole house come down.

Seeing all these codes on Jean Francois' display made me realize what a genius he is!
Good thing we all have our own field of expertise!

International or maybe even multinational

Gilles, the founder of vinivi, is French as mentioned before.
Xavier, who is supposed to join us, is also French.
Me, I'm Dutch.
We are based in Mauritius!

The website is hosted in the United States;
Our graphic designer is in France;
The ergonomy is done here in Mauritius as well as the development which is done by our team and which is checked again by friends of Gilles in France!

If this is not an international setup...

When will the website be online?

Big question, seems that everyone wants to know...
When will the website be online?

Well, plan is for www.vinivi.com to be online by the end of May!

Till then still lots to do.