219 contestants, translations & (almost) ready for the introduction

What a weekend this was. Almost every hour contestants enter our 1st model competition at www.justproud.com/en/model/. This really encourages us to go forward. Even we didn’t plan this event initially we are convinced that it was a good plan to meet the expectations of our members sooner than January. Still this gives us a lot of challenges: removing double entries & pictures without a ‘fashion nature’, installing more security checks & making the entries appear random.
Especially the last one is of great importance, to give all entries equal chance.

Then we are working on the different language versions simultanious. So the whole world (or at least the part that talks English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German or Dutch) can be a part of this movement. Because of the latest changes in the site, due to the contest, we were a little late in supplying the version to translate. Our main supplier in translations did their very best, but at the latest moment we decided to go for another translator who could deliver earlier; (thanks to Jennifer, a former employee of my China Company & girlfriend of Djon) so now we will implement the language versions today. Hopefully without mistakes, because it is hard to make a Japanese version when you’re not native Japanese.

Last Friday the people of BusinessWire supported me through their website in order to prepare the press release. It is always exciting to say: yes, this is it; without the possibility to reverse. But James of Businesswire double checked it for us & now the press release is translated in several main languages & ready to hit the wire.
We are very curious how the media will react. Only a few days of (less) sleep and we will know.