The days get shorter, the trees are practically bare, november storms are whipping the leaves up in a mad dance: now’s the time to submit devroom and lightning talks proposals for FOSDEM.

This year, FOSDEM takes place a little bit earler, on the 7th and 8th of february. As usual, if you’ve got an open source project you’d like to talk about, it’s a good idea to submit it now. Similarly, user groups and large projects can submit proposals for devrooms, if they’re confident they can fill one or two days with talking, brainstorming, hacking in an interesting way.

The official call is here on the FOSDEM website.

cross-posted on Jabberwocky

The comments on last post showed some misunderstanding, so I’d like to clear that up before moving on.

I’m not bashing science: science is a great methodology for gaining knowledge about the physical world. The problem is the impression that ditching religion has made us this enlightened and evolved people. We are inherentlly the same people who went to church 5 times a week and turned to priests for advice.
Science is really necessary – but it’s also just a tool. Since we ditched religion, people tend to turn to science for answers it was not designed for, seeing it as the path to a brighter and better future.

Also, it’s a tool wielded by humans, just like (again, a parallel) the church was. With all our biases and imperfections. As communism and religions showed us, principles tend to get diluted when people are involved. I’ll talk about that in my next post.

OK, I hope that clears that up.