Re: Language of talks at LinuxTag
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:41:00PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
>
> > What really puzzles me is that on linuxtag.de they qualify the exhibition
> > as "EUROPEAN" and they have most of the talks in german. There is
> > something that doesn't really work here. What is my understanding a
> > European exhibition should be able to give out to every european citizen
> > and not only to local ones.
>
> In the _exhibition_ it is not that much of a problem - the largest part of
> the booth personnel spoke both English and German, at some booths there were
> also people who could speak a bit French, Italian, Dutch or Spanish, and you
> can adapt your language choice to the particular visitor you are talking to
> at your booth. This is plainly not possible when giving a talk to several
> hundred people - you have to choose one language there.
I meant exhibition in its globality (including talks).
> One could argue that the number of talks given in English should be higher
> than it currently is (about 1/3 of all talks)
and that's it :-)
Fabio
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