I paid a conference to be held in english with a pretty fixed list of speakers so while are people not related to the conference here speaking in french?

Maybe people like you should make some bigger effort to understand that France is not the only country into the world.. and that if you want an international audience you MUST speak in english, simply because english is the most widespread language into the communities participating to this kind of events.

please do some bigger effort mate..

P.S I’m italian..

I can see how in a big country like France you may want to have some French-only sessions, but they should be marked clearly in the program. Or else do it the other way around: make it a program where sessions are in french by default, and provide at least one continuous English-speaking track (we did this at our national CHI conference for the last couple of years). But LeWeb seems to be marketed to an international audience, in which case defaulting to English is the way to go.

Hell, last weeks’blog entry on www.leweb3.com even mentioned how proud the organizers were about the intenationa attendance! Maybe Loic wasn’t joking when he wrote “Thank you so much for coming from all around the World to the country of smelly cheese and welcome to France. We’ll have fun ! Did I tell you the event will all be in French by the way ?”

sorry for my english, i’m french and i prefer french and spanish than english ^^

My point was a complete lack of transparency and respect to an international audience. A lack remarked by thousands of other international (and probably more important than me) bloggers.

Cheers,
Emanuele

P.S. I’m italian and speak english better then german but worst than french but… still english is a must for all us (at least until chinese will be better). We want to share our experiences right?