[advocacy-discuss] Planned OpenSolaris conference in Poland

[Damian Wojslaw]

> 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.

> 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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Damian Wojslaw
Open Solaris Core Contributor
SCA number OS00073
http://pl.opensolaris.org/