[FOSDEM] Academic Freedom vs CoC at FOSDEM

[Daniel Pocock]

On 10/01/2022 18:56, Olav Vitters wrote:
> Hardly anyone responded to this. Yet the emails continue. Could this
> please stop? Belgium isn't the White House, nor Australia. At the moment
> it feels like some emails are being sent to attract attention. The
> relevance to FOSDEM is really thin.

The external examples are quite relevant because they don't involve the
names of FOSDEM participants.  I could very quickly point to targets
from the Apache and Fedora software projects though.  In 2021 these
people disappeared like Lt Col Vindman:

Marko Rodriguez
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/23/apache_tinkerpop_speech/

Ahmad Haghighi
https://ahmadhaghighi.com/blog/2021/us-restricted-free-software/

It is harder to be objective discussing cases like that where we know
people on one or both sides of the dispute.

As a former community representative, some people also told me they are
afraid to speak because they don't want to disappear like Marko or Ahmad.

Debian and FSFE decided that their obsession with CoCs is more important
than the death of my father.  The only conclusion I can draw from their
behavior towards my family is that the CoC has mutated like a virus.
Yet they unilaterally decided to impose that on us at the beginning of
the FOSDEM dev-room selection process.

Regards,

Daniel

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Debian Developer
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