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Bradley M. Kuhn f4e8af208c Samuel Clemens: Slide 2
2025-02-02 12:32:05 +01:00

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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 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 ]