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."
@bortzmeyer overheard at #FOSDEM
> “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.”
This statement contains multitudes b/c #TruthSocial is a fork of #Mastodon. Initially, $DJT violated the #AGPLv3, but AFAIK they now comply with the license. I examined the fork & they primary code they added was an advertising platform. Obviously it doesn't have federation turned on.
Cc: @jzb
@bkuhn @bortzmeyer @jzb saying that ‘initially, Truth Social violated AGPLv3’ gives copyright troll vibes to me. They were running some internal tests on public domains without announcing them. They made the source code available before launch (they’d likely do this no matter the legal actions because their then-head of engineering was at least a FOSS believer).
But now they haven’t updated the published source code for years so they’re not really compliant anymore.
We verified they violated #AGPLv3. I coordinated with #Mastodon folks on an enforcement action to gain compliance.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-group-agplv3/
It was not a test version. It was the site. The public could sign up for accounts and many members of the general public signed up for accounts and received accounts.
The violation continued for a number of months thereafter.
I have all the receipts.
Cc:
@jzb @bortzmeyer
