Hello everyone, monochrom from Hamburg.
Lots of metals have had problems with line-up changes during festivals. It is even worse if you don't speak the language, as stage-announcements and word of mouth misses you completely. What to do, as of course we do not want our foreign metalheads to have a bad time in our country?
Two things.
First, we need LARGE announcement boards at the entrance (Yes, the ONLY logical place for any important sign) - the Summer-Breeze guys have it (Anyway it's not such a big problem, only two stages and small festival ground) and from what I've heard and read, Wacken definitely needs this. The forumlers (Who seem to be very good organized, nice HP) could even organize it as a service to the foreigners - apparently the Wacken guys have got an organisation problem, although I'm not the to comment as I've not been able to participate this year.
Second, better information on the booklets. Bi- or trilingual doesn't work, it only shows the bad language skills of festival organisers. But something like the location of the 5 most important places on the festival, and that in the most important languages, should be in every festival booklet.
So, I thought I could organize that. Not for this season, but the next one. I am trying to get the powermetal.de - guys or someone who has connections to the 5 or 6 most important festivals, so we could organize that this information goes into next years booklets. For this, we'd need metalheads with good language skills, as I am only useful for english.
Two questions:
Who'd be willing to do some very basic translation work, it won't be more than three or four sentences? I think french, swedish, spanish, italian, russian would be a good idea and we'd reach most of the people. The dutch usually speak excellent german and english, so they are not the biggest problem. I included russian because it is understood by a lot of people from all the eastern european countries.
What information is so essential that everyone needs to know it? Hospital tents, Infopoints, Shuttlebus-Services are the first things that come to mind ...
Well, just an idea and this seemed the perfect place to ask.
Stay metal
monochrom
Lots of metals have had problems with line-up changes during festivals. It is even worse if you don't speak the language, as stage-announcements and word of mouth misses you completely. What to do, as of course we do not want our foreign metalheads to have a bad time in our country?
Two things.
First, we need LARGE announcement boards at the entrance (Yes, the ONLY logical place for any important sign) - the Summer-Breeze guys have it (Anyway it's not such a big problem, only two stages and small festival ground) and from what I've heard and read, Wacken definitely needs this. The forumlers (Who seem to be very good organized, nice HP) could even organize it as a service to the foreigners - apparently the Wacken guys have got an organisation problem, although I'm not the to comment as I've not been able to participate this year.
Second, better information on the booklets. Bi- or trilingual doesn't work, it only shows the bad language skills of festival organisers. But something like the location of the 5 most important places on the festival, and that in the most important languages, should be in every festival booklet.
So, I thought I could organize that. Not for this season, but the next one. I am trying to get the powermetal.de - guys or someone who has connections to the 5 or 6 most important festivals, so we could organize that this information goes into next years booklets. For this, we'd need metalheads with good language skills, as I am only useful for english.
Two questions:
Who'd be willing to do some very basic translation work, it won't be more than three or four sentences? I think french, swedish, spanish, italian, russian would be a good idea and we'd reach most of the people. The dutch usually speak excellent german and english, so they are not the biggest problem. I included russian because it is understood by a lot of people from all the eastern european countries.
What information is so essential that everyone needs to know it? Hospital tents, Infopoints, Shuttlebus-Services are the first things that come to mind ...
Well, just an idea and this seemed the perfect place to ask.
Stay metal
monochrom
