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The presentations from FOSDEM 2020 are online. FOSDEM is an annual, non-commercial conference for Free and Open Source software developers and takes place for two days every year in Brussels, Belgium. This year it was the first weekend in February, Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd. It is organized by volunteers and aims to promote the use of free and open source software. One beneficial aspect is the many developer rooms where various projects can meet and exchange ideas, plan, discuss, and hack. Participation is free of charge.
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @01:31PM (5 children)
So, there's an issue that's rocking the FOSS world, and it's being addressed at this con.
Do you realize that professional Engineers, who aren't "Software Engineers" but real Engineers, have to take several credit hours of ethics courses to get their degrees, right? Why is having an ethics workshop for software engineers out of place?
Do you realize that mishandled diversity/inclusiveness issues have split projects, and worse, and that handling it better - whatever that means - is to FOSS's benefit?
You do realize that cognitive bias is a thing, and that most smart software people are fascinated by each new blind spot they discover - ditto for literal optical illusions? Because curious minds gravitate to fun weird problems like "why do these lines seem to move when I move my eyes" and "how do I stop the kernel from hanging when I call xwindows with these args" and "the fundamental attribution error implies what?"
Your inability to see the possible value in these demonstrates your lack of vision. If instead you criticized the merit of their contents somehow, that could be valid! But all of these are appropriate FOSS topics.
(Score: 3, Informative) by shrewdsheep on Monday February 10 2020, @02:03PM (1 child)
In OPs defense, he did not take sides. He just cringed at the unexpected amount of talks he now wants to watch/listen to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @03:52AM
Good point! I saw his comment, and khallow who *did* speak negatively about the topics proper as opposed to their own reaction to the topics, and conflated the two. Thanks for pointing out the mistake! My stance holds vs khallow's but not against this neutral GP AC's.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @03:21PM (2 children)
You do not seem to understand that many of these topics are covered by the fundamental Law of most western countries.
Harassment, discrimination, stalking, defamation and so forth...
There is no need to talk about the feelings of special snowflakes.
/zug
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 11 2020, @12:30AM
Because exploring the implication of this legislation in OSS is unworthy or is "talking about the feelings of special snowflakes" or... why?
BTW, /zug, I do hope that you put some serious skin in the OSS game, otherwise your sideline opinions don't necessary count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @03:54AM
There is the need to prevent
though! And education is one way. Similar to how nowadays "you can't give drunk consent" is a well-known idea, but in the 60s drunk sex was often considered fine, despite it being successfully prosecuted in the USA, in some cases, as nonconsentual rape. What changed? Only that people became more knowledgeable.