We paid for another conference at Le web 3
Categories: Web 2.0
Tags: leweb, leweb3
It is really ridiculous to see a journalist from Canal Plus to pose a question in French after a discussion in english, to a world wide audience, at an international conference with 47 countries.. simply ridiculous. If you don’t want to make the effort of letting people understand, please change job.
And I’m even more irritated from seeing a changed program with unwanted political participants.
We paid for a conference and today we are attending different talks and talks in French. I expected to have a conference with a quite fixed program talking about web 2.0 and doing it in english.
I paid 500 euros to listen unknown people talking in French and having a buggy buggy internet connection..
I won’t be here the next year at these conditions.
Update: While Sam Sethi of TechCrunch UK commented quite honestly about the epilogue of Le Web 3, this was the answer of Loic Lemeur (if it is really from him):
Sam. There is no word to qualify you and this post. You are just an asshole
Another post from Nicole Simon: Loic Lemeur: Betraying 1000 attendees for his own political ambitions? and a collection of quotes from Tom Morris.
Loic, we have no words for you! This marks the end of Le Web but also damages the good swing the web 2.0 phenomenon is having in Europe.
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December 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Make some efforts to speak french !
December 12th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
gey mate, 1 sec, don’t you find it’s ridiculous to have us guys speaking english so quickly when they are in paris …?? maybe they did not even realized they are not in frisco any longer..
do some efforts mate
December 12th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
mate? I’m probably not a mate of yours and why didn’t you posted your real email?
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..
December 12th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Damn, that sucks.
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 ?”
December 13th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
leweb3 or why no one in Europe is ever happy
December 14th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Sorry, but i think that in France we are allowed to speak french…Nicolas Sarkozy (i don’t want him for president) was at the web3 only for is political campain…you have to know that Loic Lemeur have give to nicolas sarkozy one’s support for president election.
sorry for my english, i’m french and i prefer french and spanish than english ^^
December 15th, 2006 at 2:00 am
Mathieu,
I’m italian and my english is all but perfect. Anyway my point was not speaking in french or in italian or in 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
December 18th, 2006 at 12:38 am
I totally agree with Emanuele but -sorry guys- I think that the focus of the post was all about the fact Loic shouldn’t use the event for politic self-promotion. That’s the irritating thing!
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?