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Year after year, #FOSDEM continues to disappoint.
The most relevant part of their keynote's description at https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/ (purposefully taken out of context):
"Block Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey"
Yes, please do. (Block as a verb, not a "proper" noun.)
More details: https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
is inaccessible for those with:
- mobility issues
- scent sensitivities (no policy against perfume, uses smelly soap in bathrooms); this affects around 30% of the population
- who need/want CC for videos
And refused:
- to have a code of conduct for years; have no real means of enforcing the one they have now
- to implement any kind of sickness mitigation (COVID, "FOSDEM Flu", or other), including encouraging masks and ventilation
And promotes:
- cryptocurrency
- billionaires
FOSDEM, Meta [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Going to unsubscribe from the #FOSDEM hashtag for now. The amount of people in my timeline just shitting on the conference and insinuating that I might be a bad person because I don't agree with them is hard to bear.
- Mitchell Baker, Mozilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter/Block
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey
Both sponsor & speaker. I wouldn't have thought #FOSDEM sponsorship included a keynote spot. This is still a thing? How quaint.
I'm not particular interested in listening to what a millionaire & billionaire have to say to us 'opensource plebs'.
Luckily there's plenty of other interesting talks & speakers or you can join Drew's protest:
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
With all the excitement about the organisation changes announced yesterday, I nearly forgot to ship the product and engineering #TrunkAndTidbits updates post for last month - sorry it is a bit later than planned! Here's what @MastodonEngineering has been up to... (also, help appreciated with some React component dependency updates for the site!). Now looking forward to #FOSDEM. 💻 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/trunk-tidbits-december-2024/
I am excited about this! We had *so many* great submissions for the #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM, and being able to include some as a bonus for those able to attend the "After Hours" event was so important, amazing speakers all around. https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/
Currently checking out #FOSDEM's schedule and I'm finding so many great talks.
I spotted presentations by #ActivityPub royals (@evan @cwebber), Ghost founder @johnonolan... as well as talks like "Friendica - under the radar since 2010".
I cannot wait for February 😊
My 2024 in tech – UPDATED
- Jan-May: same old same old
- mid-Jun: I started the blog #TheFutureIsFederated
- Jul: I started doing interoperability tests between #Fediverse projects
- Aug: I federated my Wordpress site, joined Friendica and 3 content aggregators. More tests
- Sep: I federated 2 more WP sites
- Oct: I joined #Sharkey
- Nov: I got a #RaspberryPi5 and installed Ubuntu on it; started learning #Linux
- Dec: I joined #Misskey & am researching VPSs
🔜 heading to #FOSDEM next Feb 🥳
Good morning Fedi friends.
Send help, I am taking advantage of Black Friday sales to buy... font licenses 🤪
I am totally smitten with fonts by Nicky Laatz, so shout out to this independent creator: https://nickylaatz.com/ I wish she'd set up an account on the Fediverse.
Planning to use her Eighties Comeback font for a new blog series (about my Linux learning journey).
Next up: creating + ordering custom t-shirts for me to wear at #Fosdem, with messages that promote the #Fediverse .
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a screenshot from Nicky Laatz's website showcasing her font Eighties Comeback – which has a 1980s retro feeling. There is a grainy photo of a blond woman in the background and the title Eighties Comeback on top