I worry that significant funders will respond by maintaining their own forks and permanently fragment the ecosystem. Maybe that's already happened.
But, I also think we all will soon be in permanent emergency and so rather ensure efforts prioritize humanitarian support. Best Michael Sumner Research Software Engineer Australian Antarctic Division Hobart, Australia 0438489030 e-mail: [email protected] On Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 21:08 Greg Troxel via gdal-dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Even Rouault via PROJ <[email protected]> writes: > > > -------- Message transféré -------- > > Sujet : About organizing a general strike > > Date : Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:32:36 +0200 > > De : Even Rouault <[email protected]> > > Pour : OSGeo Discuss list <[email protected]> > > > > So I propose a general strike from the OSGeo community > > > > Motivation: that's actually the gist of the debate there is so much > > things about why we could strike. But here in France, we don't really > > need a good reason to strike. This is part of the life style, of live > > hygiene. > > > > So here's my motion: > > > > "OSGeo developers start a general strike. Motives to follow up in next > > press release, or not." > > I don't understand what the point is, even though I could guess a few > things, perhaps damage to the community caused by LLMs and those who are > willing to use them. I don't think it's proper for osgeo as a group (or > any other group that isn't specifically constituted as politcal > activism) to cross into politics other than what directly bears on > osgeo's work (e.g. non-open data from governments, LLM-caused problems > in the osgeo world). > > I don't follow asking people to approve a general strike for no stated > reason with reasons to be provided later, that they might or might not > want to sign onto. > > Overall, I feel like I must be missing some context. > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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