From 42c240da7d1d08b5f6a0ccff73a023b6f5f21e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 12:24:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] What I was going to say for Slide 0 and 1. --- what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md diff --git a/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md b/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..683f52a --- /dev/null +++ b/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# FOSDEM 2025 Keynote + +Handed off by bkuhn to Karen and Denver due to someone (very possibly Henry +Poole) giving bkuhn COVID-19. + +## Title: Slide 0 + +Put it up as people are arriving so they know I'm not there. My name is +striked out with apologies. + +## Kant: Slide 1 + +Kant slide, (First slide (after title slide). Please read this prepared +statement from me: + +> Bradley is heartbroken to not speak today — he last keynoted about five +> years ago, and was excited to keynote again. FOSDEM is a unique event in +> the world, as its organizers focus on community, not for-profit interests. +> Those who saw Bradley yesterday know that he work a tight fitting N-95 mask +> the entire day, as he did nearly the entire time since leaving his home for +> the trip to FOSDEM — he took his mask off only to eat, drink, and speak on +> stage. Nevertheless, he tested positive for COVID-19 this morning for the +> first time in his life. He actually feels reasonably good and since he has +> received absolutely every recommend vaccine, his symptoms are quite mild. + +> Bradley asks the entire FOSDEM community to reconsider their safety +> protocols. Bradley believes deeply in the moral imperatives of Kantian +> ethics: that, as this quote says more formally, humans have a moral +> imperative to voluntarily take every action so that it maximize the rights +> and welfare of all humanity. As such, he has quarantined today for our +> safety, and while he does not call for a return to mask mandates, he would +> like FOSDEM to return to “masks strongly recommended” policy indefinitely +> for the years to come, and for all of you to wear masks voluntarily, +> especially when in the audience of crowded DevRooms. + +> The science shows that masking works best in disease prevention if everyone +> participates. Bradley noticed anecdotally that less then approximately 2% +> of attendees wore masks yesterday and and at earlier fringe events. We +> should all commit to voluntarily to making that 98% because it's the right +> thing to do. + +I do ask that you read the statement above exactly as written it. What +continues is just what I would probably say. Once I hand this off to you +(probably around 12:30 local on 2025-02-02), please feel free to turn it as +much into “your talk” as you'd like. I just wrote all this out to help you +understand where I was going to go.