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FOSDEM - day 2 | |
2018.02.07 21:08:03 CET | |
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Last Sunday was the second day of FOSDEM, but I only got down to | |
typing this post today. I participated in the key signing party an | |
spent my hours after the conference automating the job of signing, | |
exporting and mailing keys. After four hours I had an MVP, but fou | |
out about Pius [1] which already had less bugs and more features t | |
mine, so I decided to use it. | |
Besides the key party, I spent most of the day in the Decentralize | |
Internet and Privacy devroom. I had to arrive early to find a seat | |
about 1 hour before the first talk. Unfortunately I felt the devro | |
could have been better organized, or maybe it's because it became | |
clear to me a Panel would have been the best thing to start the da | |
A Panel about terminology and goal. The term "decentralized" was u | |
throughout the day, but with very different meanings. These are so | |
of the meanings used: | |
1. Network centric: more smaller AS'es, exchanging traffic in IXP' | |
2. Federated: exchange of information between distinct systems. | |
3. Anti-trust: some companies are becoming too big and host too mu | |
information. | |
4. Anti-capitalist: against any type of private enterprise. | |
5. Anarchist: against any type of hierarchical organization. | |
Unless the audience was paying attention, it was easy to become | |
confused as speakers did not state their definitions explicitly an | |
there were only a few moments when questions from the audience mad | |
it clear there was a problem. | |
There was plenty of the usual propaganda, for example open-source | |
free-software are not the same thing, but this is FOSDEM so I just | |
ignored it. | |
I was not impressed, but hope it will be better next year. I am | |
willing to help, but my opinion seems to go against what many of t | |
track organizers believe, so I'm not sure I'll be welcome. | |
[1] https://www.phildev.net/pius/ |