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I really dont know how the conference will accommodate...

7 May 2010

I really dont know how the conference will accommodate...

Can someone reply me, I really dont know how the conference will accommodate non-danish speakers; will there be sessions in English? Since I only understand English...

its as always in english

7. May 2010 - 9:59

DrupalCon have always and will always be an english spoken conference.
No session will be in any other language.

There will probably be BOF sessions at the con that are for local communities (german, danes, swedes etc) those will probably not be.

Even that we thought it would be fun to force you all to try to speak danish (or swedish / norweigian) - but now that we dont even can understand eachother in scandinavia, we thought it wasnt fair to force you all to language school before the con ;)

We will though set up a course for you all so you can learn to pronounce "Ægir" the right way,we dont wanna upset the norse gods once again...

The only problem you might encounter...

28. May 2010 - 12:26

... is navigating the city itself. 90% of signs and shop names are in Danish, staff in the shops serve you in Danis, even at McDonalds, and in case you are wondering what they are asking: they want to know if you want ketchup or mayo with your fries. Took me a while to figure that one out :)

But you'll be fine, most people can speak English and I wrote down the addresses of where I needed to go on a piece of paper beforehand - it's easier to show the taxi driver where you want to go because some streets have some SERIOUS strange pronunciation and a lot sound the same, which can (and did) lead to confusion.