Hi Cedric

what dependencies do you have between open and language?
A german developer who comment his code in german but release his code  
to OSS doesn't write open Software???

The Expo is located in Berne (german speaking territory). Therefore  
german is the most prefered language for people visiting the OpenExpo.
So why publish content in english? For people from the uk/usa?
The second thing is, that the OpenExpo is organized by /ch/open/ a  
german speaking Association.

The national languages are german, french, italian and Rhaeto-Romanic.
Therefore it would be more obvious to publish content in these  
languages rather than in english.

The Swiss Confederation has it's own languages and culture. I am proud  
of it and against the movement as side-effect of globalisation to  
accept the english language as pseudo-standard for (inter)national  
communication.

BtW it's interessting that you of all people are holding  
swissknight.org/.net; The Swissknight - the signboard of switzerland  
par excellence.

So if you like an english spoken Event about OpenSource go to english  
spoken territory or feel free to organize an Event matching your  
requirements by yourself. But don't complain about too less attendees.

> can we expect conferences to be in english - or in german - anybody knows?
Why don't you ask for conferences in french? Your located near geneva, right?

Just because we are an open and multicultural country doesn't mean  
that we have to prefere/equate all foreign languages with the national  
languages.
And if you're an immigrant go and learn OUR culture/language and don't  
try to force the swiss to become an enclave of your country.

Thanks for understanding..

Best regards.
G?rald







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