The latest Absolutely Intercultural show is a report of my attendance of the Reboot 9.0 conference last month. On the face of it this is an IT conference which immediately attracts a certain sector and repels the rest. However the subtitle was 'Human?' and reboot in any case is traditionally cutting edge. Although not explicitly intercultural, any meeting involving so many different nationalities is bound to throw up a few interesting stories. In actual fact the landscape of this show could have taken on many different forms depending on which combination of people I chose to approach. The spread of topics and experiences was wide and spanned the whole of human life from birth to death.
I made a beeline for Ewan McIntosh because I have been following his blog for quite a while now and he didn't disappoint. I got him talking about his time as a lecteur in France and lots of other stuff besides.
Ewan introduced me to Delphine Ménard, who works for the Wikimedia Foundation in Germany and she had some fascinating observations to make about the pattern of donations to the Foundation.
And finally when I heard Fred Oliveira's story, turning his back on the Bay area and returning to his native Portugal, to run a successful hi-tech business. I just had to talk to him about it and the implications of his situation.
Keywords: absolutely intercultural, Delphine Ménard, Ewan McIntosh, reboot90, Webreakstuff
