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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 tick | |
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 Priv | |
devroom [1]. Most, if not all, of the talks in this devroom in pas | |
years were very anti-GAFAM [2]. Of course I agreed with many of th | |
arguments made against Google in particular, but I still had a ver | |
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 th | |
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 f | |
the gopherspace heading there? Please let me know! | |
[0] https://fosdem.org/2020/ | |
[1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/decentralized_internet_ | |
[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_algor | |
[7] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/retrocomputing/ |