Re: Language of talks at LinuxTag

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:17:40PM +0200, Christoph Siess wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:17:50PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:12:32PM +0200, Anders Dybdal wrote:
> > > Is it me or is LinuxTag a GERMAN LinuxDay, in Germany?? Hence, isnt it 
> > > supposed to be in german?!?
> > 
> > Yeah, DebConf is in Oslo, so all the talks should be in norwegian, if
> > you ask me.
> 
> That's not the point. DebConf is a internation event, LinuxTag not....

I would not make the difference on "international event" but on the type of
audience and speakers. Debconf is a pure technical conference, a
developer-only event. It is quite sensible to assume that all people taking
part in DebConf speak and understand english quite fluently. This is not the
case for an event like LinuxTag, so the LinuxTag organizers try to get a
good mixture between English and German there.

Regards,
Karsten
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