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 -- Our mission: make IPv6 the default IP protocol "We are on a mission from God" - Elwood Blues http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-nanog-200210-ipv6isp/mgp00004.html
