Following the uproar about the language of my presentation which was part of the Global Ignite Week I have to make some points clear for all those naysayers, especially on twitter:

  1. I really enjoy speaking English. This might be a surprise for you, but I feel really well speaking and writing English. I’m a web worker and English is my primary language I work day-in and day-out, most of the blogs I read are in English, most of the people I follow on twitter use this language.
  2. I want to reach people. I don’t know why you are doing talks, but for me my main goal is to reach people, inspire them and to have them think about what I said. This is especially true for the Ignite format (or any other short talk format).
  3. I want to represent Germany to the world. While this sounds dodgy at the first sight, at such events we need to show that we don’t do our own thing only. We have to show people in the USA and in Great Britain that there are people here who like to talk to them, too. We need to cross borders and work together instead of developing our niche products and solutions. We need to really get the web forward, we won’t reach that goal if we stay in our German bat caves. You have to get out to Gotham.
  4. I’m enthusiastic about accessibility. I really want to get the message out to as many people as possible. If I get an opportunity like that, to talk about a topic I like which can possibly get international recognition, I’ll do everything needed to talk there and broaden the audience. It makes no sense to talk to the same web developers over and over again, which are on the right track anyway, most of the time. In the instant Darren told me, that there was an Ignite coming to Frankfurt, I said: “Let me talk there, in English.” There was never a doubt in that.

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