[advocacy-discuss] Planned OpenSolaris conference in Poland

[Jim Grisanzio]

Damian Wojslaw wrote:
>> hey ...
>>
>> What is the language situation there? In other words, how much English 
>> is understood? How much is actually spoken? The reason I ask is that in 
>> East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) most of the developers (and tech people 
>> generally) understand English much better than they can speak English. 
>> The reasons for this are obvious, but I don't know anything about 
>> Eastern Europe. Is it similar?
> 
> 	I believe that most developers and sysadmins around the world, that use
> Unix, understand English pretty well, since most documentation is
> English. No other is in Poland. While we speak rather bad, since our use
> of language is passive, we understand quite much, in my opinion.
> 	Also most people here in schools learn English with German being close
> second.


Very interesting. Thanks. It sounds pretty similar to here (except for 
the German part :)). I'll look forward to visiting and learning ....

Jim


>> Oh, and also, if you want to do completely Polish conference, that's 
>> cool. Do it. Don't change on my account. I'm just one guy. And I can 
>> find another excuse to stop by, believe me. :) I'm spending a lot of 
>> time in Asia right now, but my job is global and I'm interested in 
>> emerging markets so I'll be around your way as well.
>>
>> Jim
> 
> 	I'll be happy to walk you around Szczecin town. :)
> 
> Regards
> 
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