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SUMMARY:OFFDEM
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200203
DTSTAMP:20260905T061242
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DESCRIPTION:FOSDEM is approaching its 20 year anniversary.\n\nIt is custom
 ary to many large festivals to have an Off version at the margin of the ma
 in festival\, to give space to proposals that are not represented in the o
 fficial one.\n\nThe idea of OFFDEM is to address intersectional questions 
 that are not present at FOSDEM\, in a format that attracts people who usua
 lly do not go there: at OFFDEM\, everyone is a user.\n\nFOSDEM misses cosy
  and quiet spaces for collectives to meet\, focus\, hack and work together
  in good conditions\, away from the noise and seasonal rain\, shielded fro
 m the usual stress of too much sollicitation and perceptual saturation \; 
 the main attraction of OFFDEM should be its absence of both concurrent tra
 cks and a main track\, so that ad-hoc organization\, free conversation and
  unexpected activities can take place.\n\nOFFDEM should also act as an ove
 rflow mechanism for a number of free software groups that could not obtain
  a devroom due to the saturation of physical space at FOSDEM.\n\nThe idea 
 came from the conjunction of two processes:\n\n1. the feeling that another
  type of free software gathering is needed\, more radical\, and more focus
 ed on intersectional topics\, gathering concerned citizens and everyone wh
 o falls under the unique vocable of user\, unfolding the diversity and exp
 loring the complementarity of the people usually left aside of the program
 ming elites of "open-source"\;\n2. a growing discontent with the evolution
  of FOSDEM: cultivating social grouping\, accepting questionable sponsors 
 that fail to address our concerns against surveillance capitalism.\n\nThis
  situation made us will to create an alternative event to FOSDEM that woul
 d break down the barriers between communities\, provide an inclusive space
  for people from different disciplines to be considered not only as end-us
 ers but as accomplices in the production of new techniques that support so
 cial change and the Commons.\n\n\n\nRead everything about OFFDEM in a nuts
 hell on // foss.events: https://foss.events/2020/02-01-offdem.html\n\nOffi
 cial Homepage: https://ps.zoethical.org/c/cooperation/offdem/129\n\nFind y
 our way: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.82270&mlon=4.38442#map=19/
 50.82270/4.38442\n
GEO:50.8227;4.38442
LOCATION:Brussels\, Belgium
URL:https://foss.events/2020/02-01-offdem.html
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