Voting is under way for the Fedora 40 election cycle! Please look at the candidates and their responses to questions about serving in the roles they are running for.
Open seats are for the Fedora Council, FESCo, Mindshare Committee, and EPEL Steering Committee.
Congrats and thank you to Andrew Lukoshko, Ben Thomas, Cody Robertson, Elkhan Mammadli, @jonathanspw and @Conan_Kudo for serving as the inaugural ALESCo members. #linux#opensource
"The Free Desktop crowd is one of many communities within the free and open source space that are struggling from an inability to keep politics separate from the projects that people participate in. Giving rise to social contracts in the form of codes of conduct that had been written with the intended purpose of fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment. Instead had been used to gatekeep and exclude those of differing politics or ideologies from their own. Something that in my humble opinion is not in keeping with the spirit of free and open-source software where anyone can contribute regardless of their walk of life. The issue is that fascism has been thrown around these days to the point where its meaning has been diluted down to just acts of perceived authoritarianism.
Anything short of physical violence or on-going harassment, particularly toward targeted individuals for immutable traits they possess, is fair game in my opinion. People should resort to ignoring those people wherever possible and isolate them through distancing, rather than by going out of their way to prosecute them for their backward beliefs. Freedom of Speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence, and distancing yourself from people who hold backwards views is the natural way we have secluded people with harmful views for millennia now. The same can easily extend online to simply blocking the individual and moving on. Where I draw the line is when people have gone out of their way to circumvent the measures put in place to block communication for the sake of harassment, at which point removal from the community should be considered as a last resort and not a moment sooner.
Empowering people to remove toxic aspects from their lives rather than relying on the government or a community to do so for them is something I feel that will ultimately help our society prosper rather than the sheltering and echo chambers we see today. While I do agree that such extreme measures will have to be taken eventually, I do think that responsible communities should treat it as it is, an absolute last resort that should be used when all other avenues have been exhausted. I.E, communicating with the individual first, performing a risk assessment before then taking action.
Calling someone a slur or making a statement that may not sit well or otherwise align with your values are not reasons to ban projects from an entire infastructure. I truly do wish more people would understand that rather than going on to ban people at the earliest inconvenience without proper due process.
We're in the current year after all, not the Palaeolithic era. We need to identify this nonsense for the tribalism it is and work on moving past it."
Just had a #DogWalkFlashBack to '94, the week I first arrived in Aotearoa. I installed Linux for the first time, on my desktop computer (486 dx2 66MHz, 32MB RAM, monitor was 800x600 pixels, common at the time). I remember the giddy feeling of realising that I had actual real multi-tasking, and I could log into my system from outside the Lincoln Uni campus. Plus I could log into my old account at UW (Seattle) & from it back into my desktop. Heady days. People came from all over campus to see it.
30 years later, I still feel fortunate every day to have this embarrassment of riches that is #libre | #FOSS | #openSource (I vastly prefer #Copyleft) software, & that I've been been able make it a viable, even prosperous careers. Because I know that if I can do it, others can too! More details: https://davelane.nz/my-open-history