The email I couldn't ignore A few months into organising DevFest Ireland 2025, I received messages from a couple of deaf developers asking if they could attend. Not in a vague "looks interesting" kind of way. They wanted to come. They wanted to sit in the talks, meet people, be part of it properly. And the question they asked was completely fair: would there be an Irish Sign Language interpreter? I didn't have a solid answer for them at the time.