On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, 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. ;-) > >Of course you can talk to the various exhibitors in English, and the >mentioned Debian BOF/developers meeting could be done in English, too.
I am considering flying over from London to visit the conference, if only to hang out with other people from outside Germany. More support for non-German speakers would ensure that I would be there. -- I am in London and would like to meet any Linux users here. I plan to work in London for 3 - 6 months...