RE: tlug: Meeting data?

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> wrote,

>     Stephen> I wonder if a distinguishing feature of TLUG isn't that
>     Stephen> we do our meetings and have presentations in English.
> 
>     Stephen> We've never defined this point, and it may well be that
>     Stephen> we don't want to distinguish ourselves this way. If we
> 
> I hope we do not.  But then, for technical purposes I'm fluent enough.
> 
> I also have a more public-spirited reason for preferring that we
> sponsor more Japanese-language talks: it is clear to me from recent
> discussions with a few OSS leaders that they don't much know or care
> what's happening in Japan (and similarly other kanji-using nations).
> This is a purely economic response to lack of I18N-ready Japanese
> contributions and the difficulty of learning the language (and many
> OSS leaders are multilingual and have paid their dues in that area).
> 
> I hope that we can contribute a meeting place where language
> difficulties will be treated with the understanding they deserve.  We
> all know that Japanese hackers are contributing enthusiastically to
> many projects, but it would be nice if this could be made
> higher-profile to the OSS community at large.

I strongly agree!  (And for me a technical presentation in
Japanese is much more of a challenge than it is for Steve.)

Manuel
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