Opera opens new office in Prague
14 CommentsPublished February 1st, 2008 3:57 PM EST By Daniel Goldman
Yesterday, Opera formally opened its new office in the Czech Republic with a party for more than 70 Opera fans (and some Mozilla Firefox guys too).
Jiri Eischmann took some photos of the party. Check them out.
In addition to the new Opera office in the Czech Republic, Opera also has offices in Norway, Silicon Valley, San Diego, India, Sweden, Poland, Japan, China, and South Korea.
Head over to the Opera Jobs page, if you’re interested in joining the Opera team in Prague.
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Wow, I almost had a heart attack when I saw the title, Opera can’t get any closer to me (I’m in Slovakia) than this… And working for Opera could be really exciting… Well, maybe some other time.
I wish the Prague team all the best.
And now, get to work
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Some more photos from me: http://my.opera.com/Case_/albums/show.dml?id=463543
): http://case.ic.cz/?p=507
And bilingual blogpost about the party (basically it’s just saying how great Opera guys and Jon von Tetzchner were
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yop yop
same here 
2 comments = 2 slovak programmers 
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Another man from Slovakia wishing work for Opera..
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Briefly there was a press release about an office opening in Mexico and Canadia. It was taken down. Any word on that?
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*waiting for an office in vienna*
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Hello, Michal and BB, is it OK if I call you Jozef? Yesterday our second Slovak joined Prague Opera. That means that 1/3 of our office is actually Slovak (if you leave me out to make things more complicated). So do have a look at the jobs page. The more Slovaks the merrier (it also means I will have to brush up my Slovak comprehension skills, but that is probably good for me).
Serious, have you seen this link? 4 hours and 17 minutes on the train isn’t too bad with Opera Mini in hand, or a PC and a UMTS connection. Of course with a real high-speed train it would take around an hour, but there is no indication that would happen any decade near us.
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What exactly do the new offices do? Localize Opera for that region of the world..?
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No, ironically localisation is something that doesn’t have to be local (you just need knowledge of the target region). Some offices are primarily sales offices, it is an advantage to be close to your customers, others are development offices, yet others are a mix. The Prague office is a development office, focused on future phones and devices. Of course they could work in another office as well, but many (and that includes me) may prefer working in Prague than in e.g. Oslo. That the travel time to Oslo HQ, including airports and local transport is less than five hours, and there are several flights daily, is not a disadvantage either.
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@Jonny: 4 hours with Opera Mini isn’t bad at all, I use it at every possible occassion, when I have to wait somewhere, be it a bus, line for a lunch or whatever
I did have a look at the Prague jobs page immediately, but none of the positions seemed suitable for me, so…maybe some other time. I hope those Slovak guys are really good 
Thanks.
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I didn’t see Daniel Goldman in the pictures… was he at this party, too?
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No, he wasn’t. America is quite far from the Czech republic. I think he can’t be everywhere
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@fearphage: I saw that in my feedreader too and wondered the same thing.
@junkeR: Nope. I was acutally on vacation last week.
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When will you come in Paris!!!