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I'm going to #FOSDEM in Feb. If you know if any of the teams who organise devrooms or similar spaces would be open to having CO2 sensors running in the rooms, and making the values visible to participants, I'd love to know.
It feels like an affordable project to do, and quite scalable too.
Actually… I'm doing a talk in the #inclusiveweb dev room anyway. I'm happy to start with bringing a sensor of my own if there's nothing better available.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/inclusive-web/
Anyone else up for it?
@mrchrisadams I think you might want to start with the Legal & Policy room since many of the organizers of that Devroom are Conservancy staff and they did some monitoring at their own event, called FOSSY. CC @karen
Thanks @baconandcoconut - you can see the pic of what I assume is the air filter mentioned in the legal and policy room in the FOSDEM2024 in the post below.
It also contains a link to some useful guidance on how much air you'd need to move to effectively clean the air in a room of the size of the policy dev room.
Can you expand on “Conservancy staff” I don't know what that is.
https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/12/whats-the-air-quality-like-in-rooms-at-fosdem/
/cc @karen
@mrchrisadams @karen I mean folks who work at the Software Freedom Conservancy. I haven't been back to FOSDEM since the pandemic so I don't have any first hand knowledge of what was done in 2024.
@baconandcoconut @mrchrisadams Hi yes! We did have a few air filters last year at FOSDEM, and we're planning to bring them back. We also did have air monitoring at FOSSY, and I expect we'll bring one or two of those to FOSDEM too.
@karen @baconandcoconut @mrchrisadams The organizers could monitor CO2 levels for little money, in every location: https://codeberg.org/alxndr42/co2-sensor
The question is, do they even want to? In my experience, the CCC(-adjacent) crowd has largely gone anti-prevention, just like the rest of society.