First slide with "sovereignty" on it. "If we lose democracy, open source will be irrelevant"
"Open source was always about politics"
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The numbers: 1014 events, 1186 speakers, 66 track/devrooms
"Don't skip the food queue but let staff and volunteers do it."
And if the room is full, or if you are remote: https://fosdem.org/schedule/streaming/
"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI", talk by Michiel Leenaars "We need to talk about war"'
Because not everything at #FOSDEM can be fun.
[FOSS = Free / Open Source Software. AI = generating funny answers to stupid questions]
The growth of the Internet and of free software was during a time of [relative] peace and hope, after the end of the cold war [in Europe]. It was ideal and we forgot about war, dictatorship and other nasty things.
Then, we moved to hyperscalers/ GAFAM
"Cloud first strategy" means you're proud of your incompetence.
And with deliberate attacks (think supply-chain), free software is in the battleground.
And we are not ready for that.
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Hey, but there are a lot of free seats in the Social Web devroom at #FOSDEM. Come and join us!
Starting "Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon"
Purely corporate speak from Mastodon official, boring and self-serving. (And insisting that new users should be directed to one specific instance, but no longer mastodon.social, but mandatory Mastodon and have to agree with the terms of use.)
Now, Benjamin Bellamy (not the artist, the other one), "Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse"
"There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump."