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Planning FOSDEM
2020.01.05 20:17:39 CET
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This year I will be attending FOSDEM [0] again. I have booked tickets
and hotel. Now I have to plan what do, what talks to watch, which
devrooms to visit and other side events to see.
This year I'm excited to watch the Decentralized Internet and Privacy
devroom [1]. Most, if not all, of the talks in this devroom in past
years were very anti-GAFAM [2]. Of course I agreed with many of the
arguments made against Google in particular, but I still had a very
positive bias towards the company. Unfortunately this positive
mindset has changed: I don't have a negative bias, but I'm not so
excited about the company anymore and share some of the concerns I
rejected in the past. Let's see how this change of mind impacts my
perception of the arguments presented.
The sad news is that both Go [3] and BSD [4] devrooms will also
happen on Sunday, so I'll have to watch the video recordings of the
talks.
What about Saturday? I'm still not sure, some things caught my
attention: the Free Software Radio [5] and the Graph Systems and
Algorithms [6] devrooms. There is also the Retrocomputing [7] one.
What about people? I have some friends who are attending. Anyone from
the gopherspace heading there? Please let me know!
[0] https://fosdem.org/2020/
[1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/decentralized_internet_and_priva
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_tech_companies
[3] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/go/
[4] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/bsd/
[5] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/free_software_radio/
[6] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/graph_systems_and_algorithms/
[7] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/retrocomputing/