FOSDEM is Called "FOSDEM" Because of Richard Stallman (RMS)
"The team repeated the event. The F (of FOSDEM) was added at the request of Richard Stallman." - Wikipedia
Over a day from now, another talk by RMS in Europe: (January 20)
RMS is not cancelled, just demonised a lot. Perverts fancy projecting to distract from their own bad or illegal taste.
RMS, a French-speaking American, will give a talk in the 'homeland' of the Statue of Liberty only hours apart (January 20) from an event across the Atlantic where liberty will die.
"A French historian, Édouard de Laboulaye, made the proposal for the statue in 1865. Funds were contributed by the French people, and work began in France in 1875 under sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The statue was constructed of copper sheets, hammered into shape by hand and assembled over a framework of four gigantic steel supports, designed by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. The colossus was presented to the American minister to France Levi Morton (later vice president) in a ceremony in Paris on July 4, 1884. In 1885 the completed statue, 151 feet 1 inch (46 metres) high and weighing 225 tons, was disassembled and shipped to New York City." - Encyclopaedia Britannica
The overlap there seems timely; yesterday RMS spoke in French-speaking (in part) Switzerland where questions in French were accepted. Next up: France. Then FOSDEM in Belgium (where French is spoken and where a Swiss, Miriam Bastian, will speak for the FSF). █