Nathan_Canada wrote:Will the presentations of our lovely members be available for those of us not able to make it? On youtube or elsewhere?
The presentations do get recorded, but it may take some time before they are on YouTube as the editing is done by volunteers. It took several months before last year's started to appear. Check the Polyglot Gathering on YouTube to see lectures from last year and earlier years.
druckfehler wrote:This is getting exciting! I'll bring some Korean books - do you think children's books are popular? I'd love to give those away, but I'd have to plan a trip to my family tomorrow to pick them up. So I'm wondering... I'd hate to take them all the way to Vienna, Bratislava and then home again
Is a forum meetup planned with everyone who's attending? Or do I just attentively look at the name tags for clues?
I don't think you have to take the books home with you again. Last year there was a kind of shelf where we put them and people just took what they wanted. There was almost nothing left at the end except a couple of English language novels (which we weren't even supposed to bring). I imagine anything that is left after it is over just gets given to a used bookstore, but you know how polyglots are around books in foreign languages -- no one can resist them, and we'll take books in languages we aren't even studying just in case we happen to study it one day. Anyway, unless the book has your name on it, how will they even know it was yours?
We never managed to organize an official meetup last year, but we all found each other pretty quickly and we did hang out a lot during the meals, though we were rarely all there at one time. Maybe this year we could get together for a group picture at least and post it here afterwards, if everyone is OK with that.