> We found out about this too late in the game, and at that point ComCom > refused to provide a legal translation for those terms. > So I guess you should be prepared to have quite a lot of people at your > conference wifi registration point. > ComCom will handle them, and I had already warned them :)
So, if they refuse to provide an english translation, do they expect everybody blindly agreeing to their italian terms in a hurry, at their in-conference desk? To me, it somehow looks like it is their job to provide an acceptable translation if they provide services at an international conference. I don't think they'll need a lawyer for this, if they provide just an acceptable translation, it would be fine for most cases, IMHO. > Would it be any better if we provided a non-binding/non-legal > translation of those terms on our website? I can see if we can find a > few cycles to do that. Well, I think if some trusted native italian speaker reads it and can either give a translation or at least tell that there is nothing inacceptable in it (with keeping in mind that acceptance levels might be individually different), that would help and be better than having no choice than either to blindly agree to some italian legalese or be cut off from the internet for a week or having to pay big bucks for roaming. > (I'm trying to be serious while I'm writing the above paragraph, but > hilarity obviously ensues; I'll refrain from posting political comments > on our government and their understanding of technology) :D > I've double-checked the law and it's 4 years. Oh, "great". :-* > > That internet access via wifi, is it completely open or filtered > > somehow? ssh will work? > > 100% open. SSH will work. OK, great. > Please notice that, for trainings and sprints, we plan to have at least > 1 ethernet cable per person, and connection through ethernet is a > totally different network that does not require identification nor > registration. Plug the cable, dhcp, and there you go. Good plan! In our sprint we might need some peer networking to clone some hg repos or so. > I am really sorry for these troubles. Our number one goal has been to > partner with a company that we technically trusted as to build a working > wifi network. We know how amateur-made wifi networks can be at > conferences, and we do in fact trust ComCom to deliver a reliable wifi > network. Assuming that 500 geeks use the wlan, I expect breakage somehow (just from experience). But let's see, I'ld like to be proven wrong. :)) > We cannot help much with Italian regulations, and we didn't have enough > cycles to further integrate with them and to soften edges in the > registration process (eg: sharing europython.eu registration with them, > providing a way to upload an ID as an alternative preregistration path, > etc.). Thanks to all the organizers who do the best to have a great conference! _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 20-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
