Events: Daniel Pocock on FOSDEM (Belgium), LSFMM+BPF 2025, and More
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Daniel Pocock ☛ Pocock shot in the face, shot in the back, shot on Hitler's birthday saving France, Belgium and FOSDEM
As FOSDEM approaches, the annual free software conference in Belgium's capital, it is important to remember that FOSDEM and Belgium wouldn't be the same if Australians like my great grandfather and his cousin hadn't travelled half way around the world to ensure that Belgium and France would continue to be the free countries that they are today.
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After another hospitalization, Jack returned to the battlefield again in 2018. He was injured again on 20 April 2018, the birthday of Adolf Hitler and he lost his left arm. 20 April, Hitler's birthday, was also the day my father died. Ever since then, my family and I have been attacked constantly by the German fascists at the FSFE in Berlin.
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CNX Software ☛ Jack Dorsey talk at FOSDEM 2025 may lead to protest
Jack Dorsey, who previously owned Ex-Twitter and now runs Block, will be giving a talk at FOSDEM 2025 entitled “Infusing Open Source Culture into Company DNA: A Conversation with Jack Dorsey and Manik Surtani, Block’s head of Open Source” and some people don’t like having a billionaire giving a talk at an open-source event and plan to host a protest.
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LWN ☛ LSFMM+BPF 2025 proposal deadline approaching
A reminder has gone out that the deadline for proposals for the 2025 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management and BPF Summit is February 1;
anybody wanting to attend will need to make themselves known before then.
The reminder also says that there will be no remote participation option
(or live streams) this year.