Organizing #fluConf2026 was a little hectic due to some personal constraints, and it's quite clear we'll need more people involved in order to make #fluConf2027 a reality.
If you're interested in helping to make that happen, please get in touch by joining the IRC channel (#flu-conf on Libera Chat).
A presentation about air quality measurements was a very fitting way to wrap up #fluConf2026!
A very big thank you to all of our contributors and everyone who joined in or boosted discussions during this weekend!
As with last year, we'll double-check the program on our website to ensure that all contributors' content is easy to find. You can also expect some kind of retrospective blog post, but first we're going to take a nap 😴
@samherniman the final session of #fluConf2026 is beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/@aurelwu/live
"IndoorCO2Map.com: Community science for safer indoor spaces"
The live presentation by Aurel Wünsch and @samherniman ("IndoorCO2Map.com: Community science for safer indoor spaces") will begin in approximately one hour.
Lots of us on here believe in the Human Right of Free Speech. But what about the Human Right of Freedom to assemble in Safety.
I believe in Codes of Conduct and Robust Health Policies because I think that you cannot meaningfully have that Freedom of Speech with out Freedom of Assembly.
It's why mask mandates at conferences are important and making accessibility affordances available.
It's also why I'm thankful for @fluconf and everyone who contributes to it.
Hello world!
Today is the second and final day #fluConf2026
As mentioned in the previous post, today's program will feature two contributions, and the first is available now.
@c0debabe has already shared a presentation about their project to build a Personal Digital Assistant (the palm-pilot type, not an LLM emulating a secretary).
Follow this link to check it out:
I put together a presentation of sorts for @[email protected] going over my PDA project. https://alicerhodes.com/pda/fluconf/
@fluconf The last FOSDEM I attended was 6 years ago. Just as we'd started to hear more about this thing called #Covid
I can honestly say that #FOSS attitudes to accessibility, politics and Public Health are a major factor in the existence of the cobbles blog.
I wrote this in 2023 about my experience of #LongCovid which I still have. I've just had to learn to work around it.
Meanwhile the rest of the world seems to move on.
It's why I am so thankful for #FluConf.
> We need to turn to ancestral memory, to the time of sympathetic magic. When folks knew something was wrong, but it was hard to understand what was going on […] the Fae in this realm are our modern corporations. They grew their power by gathering all your virtual footprints. They created more digital pieces of you. They took the virtual dust of where you wandered online. They created your digital poppet and sold duplicates of your virtual dust with others. They traded what they gathered about you to each other. At first to influence you, they wanted to sell you their wares in their markets — but the Fae in this realm also gave you poisonous fruit to eat. The more you ate of the fruit, the more you gave them.
@onepict on Digital Poppets - How the Modern Fae Hold Power Over You: https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html
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