On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:00:02AM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- ____ Federico Di Gregorio | / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian developer! | / -1 http://pcamb6.irfmn.mnegri.it/~fog *-=$< ;-P TeX Winzard? |/ http://www.debian.org