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    1. I’ve been lucky enough to watch a lot of talks the past couple of months by people I never would have seen otherwise because of language
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    At both conferences, translators were paid and I wore a headset and it was a phenomenal experience.
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      I’ve never seen this in the US and we are missing out terribly on world class talks because the speaker isn’t a native English speaker
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        We need to do better. We’re short changing our attendees by not giving them the best of the best, but just the best of a subset
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          And we’re closing doors on thousands upon thousands of gifted speakers and devs because they’re not comfortable conveying their ideas in Eng