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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:17:03 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Anna e só

   @onepict @anna Yep. And ditto for getting sponsorship from surveillance capitalists, etc. That’ why I attended OFFDEM last year but will not attend FOSDEM (or any other FOSS/human rights/etc., conference that whitewashes surveillance capitalists).

   • Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:17:05 JST Anna e só

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     “Oh, but _no one_ is doing it anymore.” Let’s ignore that lie for a second—well, lead the way, then! Make things better, not worse!

   • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:17:05 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     • Anna e só

     @anna I'm not sure that it's possible for an event like FOSDEM to change in it's essential form.

     Not with it's history and not with the current organisers. FOSDEM resisted having a robust COC for years.

     We're going to find this with established tech events, who have always catered for the audience they know rather than the wider community.

     So perhaps the answer is to organise new ones, this is why events like FOSSY and North Bay Python are awesome.

   • Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:17:06 JST Anna e só

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     The problem is talking about these issues in this matter-of fact way, as if that wasn’t an outcome they can change. It doesn’t have to be this way — YOU are choosing to keep it this way!

   • Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:17:07 JST Anna e só

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     Here’s a pattern of speech that really annoyed me during the opening talk: Acknowledgment of a common, valid criticism (venue choice, overcrowding, lack of a health policy) ➡️ Cynical dismissal (attitudes like “You’re probably sick, and if you aren’t, you probably will become sick”, “Yeah, we’re operating over capacity, but this event is even bigger and even more over capacity!”).

   • Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:17:08 JST Anna e só

     My opinion about #FOSDEM: I had to experience it at least once, I think, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to be one of the keynoters.

     But that smugness while saying “Yes, we’re a superspreader event, yes, you should probably wear a mask, but 🤷🏻 we ain’t making it a policy, you do you” killed me. I attended it once, but won’t attend it again (as I suspected).