On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, church.of.emacs.ml
<church.of.emacs.ml(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Because I speak only English (and German), but no
Spanish, I had no
personal advantage of bilingual aspects of the conference. Nevertheless
I support the idea of multilingual Wikimania.
They were doing bidirectional translation so you did have an
advantage. You could have gone to a Spanish-speaking talk and had it
translated for you, then asked questions in English and had them
translated to Spanish for the speaker, and then heard the reply in
English through your headset.
Anyway these rumored individuals who said they "wouldn't come because
it was bilingual" probably had mistaken prejudgements about the
implementation. Perhaps they thought a Spanish speaking person would
be standing on stage with the speaker translating every sentence the
speaker said?