Hack Day Paris: a 40-hour R&D marathon on November 4-6

Re:Hack Day Paris: a 40-hour R&D marathon on November 4-6 by sgentle on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @12:35PM (#2996860)

I'm curious about something. The website's in English (with no French translation), even though presumably all the people involved speak French.

Is this a common in the French startup scene? I remember seeing a video from TCFRecipes that was in English too...

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Re:Hack Day Paris: a 40-hour R&D marathon on November 4-6 by eneveu on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:36PM (#2998131)

Small data point, but we all spoke English at the first Paris Hacker Meetup ( http://parishackers.org/ ), since a few hackers weren't French. This might have been biased, since most people were HN, and HN is in English...

ParisJUG (Paris Java User Group) is in French, but we sometimes have foreign speakers giving talks in English.

That being said, developers usually know English better, since English is the lingua franca of development.

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Re:Hack Day Paris: a 40-hour R&D marathon on November 4-6 by ovi256 on Friday September 16, 2011 @05:10AM (#3003732)

English is very fashionable in France, and has been for some while. And most people who went to college will speak it, quite well. Many French startups, if not most, target the wider market, not just France, so English is a must for them.

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