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# 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.