[Info-vax] With a little help of Lafayette geeks

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-10 kl. 19:24, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2020-11-10, rene calliet <callietrene8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> French people didn?t forget VMS. The vmsgenerations users club organizes a webinar zoom about all the transitions of the day for VMS. Because we hope (soon ?) have a boot camp nearby Nice or Marseille we help everyone being more fluent in french, so all the meeting is done in french.
>>
>> The agenda: http://www.vmsgenerations.fr/webinaire-12-nov-2020/
>>
>> The link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CrBlNltBSiSKv46fowIXHg
>>
>> Hope seing everyone soon,
>>
>> Gérard Calliet
> 
> If you want to hold an international technical conference, it needs
> to either be in English or you need to provide high-quality translation
> services from French to English.
> 
> Just because you are planning to hold a physical conference within
> France at some point, it doesn't mean that the official language
> spoken at the conference should be French. If you want to attract
> people from all over, that's doomed to failure unless you provide
> high-quality translation services.
> 
> Simon.
> 

What a highly negative post...

I'm sure it will be a big success in France, and amongst
many others VMS'ers fluent in French.

Feel free to arrange a conference in any language you like, but
do not kick on those that are actually *doing* something.

I have already registrered, of course...