There were a bunch of talks I didn't manage to see. Are the videos
going to come back online at some point?
Or do I need to contact each speaker individually and ask if they kept
a copy? :-(
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I feel FOSDEM might be the right place to raise this for a few reasons
A recent high court decision has agreed that some of the more
controversial analogies and metaphors are permitted[1] under academic
freedom. Personally, I would not use the same metaphor in the same
context or talking about the country in question.
Quoting[1] Dr Stone from Melbourne Law School
"given the requirements of the principle of academic freedom and
the principle’s centrality to the purposes of a university,
the particular provision that protects ‘intellectual freedom’
should have been understood, in some circumstances, *to take priority
over the code of conduct* that Ridd was found to have breached"
The case is about expressing an idea. It is not a blanket authorization
to insult people.
A volunteer on another FOSDEM list recently used an alias for the
sanitary pass that is based on the same theme as the court judgment.
Another volunteer observed that the pseudonym may violate a CoC.
Anyway, the FOSDEM venue is a university so that makes it a great place
to contemplate academic freedom.
The L in ULB is for Libre
The Nobel Peace Prize has just been granted[2] for efforts to safeguard
Freedom of Expression.
Is it a good moment to contemplate the relationship between Academic
Freedom and CoCs?
Regards,
Daniel
1.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/sydney-law-school…
2.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/oct/08/nobel-peace-prize-2021-w…
Dear all,
as some of you have noticed, we have not put out an official
announcements regarding FOSDEM 2022 until now. To expand a bit on
agk's response[1]:
We do know that the weekend ULB would be able to let us onto their
premises is 2022-02-05 & 2022-02-06. As such, FOSDEM will happen at
that date.
As per usual, we started planning for real in August. We have
consensus that there will be an online component to FOSDEM. We do not
yet have consensus on what, if any, form an in-person component could
look like. These discussions are ongoing, and not easy.
We are painfully aware that this is shifting and compressing not only
our, but everyone's schedule and planning.
I had volunteered to communicate all the above a month ago and failed
to do so. I am sorry for that.
To be completely honest, all this uncertainty and the responsibility
are weighing on all of us, myself included.
What we do know is that barring some new variants, we will have an
awesome FOSDEM 2023 - and we will do our best to make FOSDEM 2022 the
least bad one possible.
Best,
Richard
[1] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2021q4/003276.html
