Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:00:02AM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 19990119163522.A847@pcamb6.irfmn.mnegri.it>,
> Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > I am thinking about being there (I'll come from italy). If you
> > find something, Wichert, can you please let me know... I CAN'T
> > read german (hope conference language will be english, at least in
> > part).
>
> The conference language will be German. In particular, all presentations
> will be in German. Sorry. I'm not entirely happy with this, but the bulk
> of the target audience are unsophisticated users who would be
> discouraged by English (even if they wouldn't admit it). It's a
> trade-off; we would probably not be able to attract more people from
> throughout Europe than we would lose from the nearby 100km radius.
> Feedback to the contrary will be given due consideration for LinuxTag
> 2000. ;-)
OK.
> Of course you can talk to the various exhibitors in English, and the
> mentioned Debian BOF/developers meeting could be done in English, too.
That's fine. If we gather enough english-speaking-developers german
won't be a problem (just to know, how do you say "beer" in german?)
Let's see there...
Ciao,
Federico
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