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Tex Texin is the founder of XenCraft and a consultant providing globalization services including software engineering, training, strategy, and implementation. Tex has created numerous globalized products, managed internationalization development teams, developed internationalization and localization tools, and guided companies in taking business to new regional markets. Tex's services improve both the time to market and the cost of delivering localized applications.

Tex is also an advocate for internationalization standards in software and on the Web. He is a representative to the Unicode Consortium and the World Wide Web Consortium.

Tex maintains 2 web sites for internationalization, the popular www.i18nguy.com and his business site: www.XenCraft.com

Yves Savourel has been involved in internationalization and localization for more than a decade, first at International Language Engineering (ILE), then at Sykes Enterprises, and now at the RWS Group.

While giving internationalization classes and consulting, his main focus has always been on developing tools and solutions for localization processes, often including SGML and XML aspects.

Yves has been involved in the creation of various localization-related standards, such as OpenTag, the Translation Memory eXchange format (TMX), and the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF). He is also working in other XML-related activities in the localization industry, and is the author of "XML Internationalization and Localization" (Sams; ISBN: 0672320967; 1st edition June 26, 2001).

Yves is a native of Brittany and lived in France, Africa and on islands of the Indian Ocean before settling in Boulder, Colorado.