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The huge overcrowding and damp winter weather at FOSDEM always seemed to make it a disease vector. All of my team returned home ill after each FOSDEM. Makes sen
by chrisseaton 5y ago
The huge overcrowding and damp winter weather at FOSDEM always seemed to make it a disease vector. All of my team returned home ill after each FOSDEM. Makes sense not to try to run it in person.
- ajja 5y agotrue, though (1 data point) I have always been surprised that I have never got sick during or after FOSDEM.
- jsumrall 5y agoTrue, have gone to FOSDEM the last two times it was held and got a nasty cold the first time and a flu on the second time.
- zoobab 5y agoOne year, I was sick and presented something anyway, it was so cold outside I renamed the event FROSTDEM.
- md8z 5y agoThis effect is well known at scifi/comic/cosplay conventions where it's colloquially called "con flu" or "con plague". I think people would have benefited from masking up at any type of those events. But I guess that may not make for the ideal costume photo.
- dugmartin 5y agoOr the more alliterative "con crud".
- jeandejean 5y agoI've been there every year since 2012, never caught a single bug... You just got unlucky I guess
- chrisseaton 5y agoThis is the argument people make with COVID.
- hulitu 5y agoWell, there are a lot of RCEs and exploits at FOSSDEM so it's normal to be powned.