# 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 13:10 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.


## Clemens: Slide 2

Does anyone, for a FOSS project they contribute to, use any of the following
systems as a substantial part of their contributions on that project.  Please
keep your hands up after we say each one.  Please don't be shy to raise your
hand; we aren't judging you and we don't blame you for using these products
we're about to list.

 * Microsoft Teams.

 * Zoom.

 * Sourceforge.

 * Jira.

 * Confluence.

 * BitBucket.

 * Any of the many non-FOSS continuous integration systems. 

 * Slack — after hands go up, say: which, BTW, is now a Salesforce product.

 * GitHub — after hands go up, say: which, BTW, is now a Microsoft product.

 * gitlab.com's proprietary GitLab instance (i.e., the gitlab instance of
   your project not self hosted).


Of course, once we said GitHub, the most hands went up, but now at least N%
of the room has their hands up.

Note that early on, we said Sourceforge.  This is an interesting piece of
history that most don't know: [ switch slides ]