Ask HN: Did Jack Dorsey cancel FOSDEM 2025?

[weinzierl]

Links to his talk and speaker profile are dead.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/speaker/jack_dorsey/

[homarp]

because https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/18/jack-dorsey-talk-at-... and https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/20/2025-01-20-FOSDEM-protest...

[weinzierl → homarp]

Likely, but so far there is nothing in the news about his potential cancellation. He just had been silently removed.

[everybodyknows → weinzierl]

He would have read this:

https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2025-01-16-protests/

[ganni]

Jack Dorsey just posted this on X.

https://x.com/jack/status/1884697472645103632

[usr1106 → ganni]

It would have been helpful to summarize the message. I do not open links to that domain.

[usr1106]

There is an https://lwn.net article on the background.