First HN Meeting in Paris: story and pics • Hacker News Board

Re: First HN Meeting in Paris: story and pics

#21

Post by Jun8 » Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 6:15 PM UTC

sterling wrote: post #5

Just curious - was it mostly in French? English? Mixed?

Which raises an interesting question: Should local hacker/nerd/entrepreneurial communities adopt an all-English approach or should they strive to invent at least some new vocabulary and use those.

Re: First HN Meeting in Paris: story and pics

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Post by eneveu » Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 11:23 PM UTC

Great event, awesome host and lots of good / original ideas for a meetup. I'm used to technology meetups with pre-planned presentations, but the top-10 / buzzwords "improvised" discussions were actually really cool.

As a bonus point, I got to practice my English. Still need to get rid of my french accent, though...

EDIT: I forgot to add the two links I talked about, in case you were interested but didn't write them down:

- http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo... --> HN RSS and Twitter feeds

- http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.h... / http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ --> Google's HTML slide templates (relatively similar to those used at Google I/O 2011)

Re: First HN Meeting in Paris: story and pics

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Post by officemonkey » Sat, Jul 23, 2011, 12:18 PM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #21

sterling wrote: post #5

Just curious - was it mostly in French? English? Mixed?

Which raises an interesting question: Should local hacker/nerd/entrepreneurial communities adopt an all-English approach or should they strive to invent at least some new vocabulary and use those.

The fact that the _Paris_ meetup was conducted in English and not French means the question has already been settled.