I was vaguely looking at #FOSDEM in 2024, but I just saw their nonexistent #Covid policy at https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/covid/ and will now steer clear.
You'd think that geeks would be all over the opportunities presented by CO2 monitoring into dashboards, home-made Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and wearing cool masks, but apparently not.
@diffrentcolours One asks oneself why one would go to events that don't care about the safety of the people who go there. Not that I was going to FOSDEM anyway.
@diffrentcolours That's a pity. 37C3 at least is giving out free masks and tests, and there is good uptake. There is CO2 monitoring, but mostly that just tells us that the ventilation is terrible.
@jmacarthur Yeah, monitoring empowers people not to turn up, but without contingency plans from the organisers it's not all that helpful.
@diffrentcolours Out of tech conferences only @pycon and @SoCraTes_UK have obligatory mask policies as far as I know
@diffrentcolours Thanks for the heads-up, makes the decision against it easy.
It might be too late for this one, but it might be worth pressuring them to do better in the future, a la publichealthpledge.com @phpledge@floss.social [floss.social]