I agree with Kate, that we shouldn't stop any HOT action by the
demonstration. Greying out the U.S. with a "here was once a land known
as 'land of the free' would be a real cool thing, as its a kind of
protest thats just possible for OSM. But I absolutly understand, that
it's quiet hard to change that within the remaining time :/
bye
Matthias
Am 17.01.2012 00:09, schrieb Kate Chapman:
As HOT is working on the ground in Haiti and Indonesia this week and
additionally helping with a flood response in the Philippines I would
suggest we don't do that. On Wednesday there are workshops going on
in the St Marc area of Haiti introducing people in that area to OSM
for the first time.
It is true there has been downtime during previous HOT missions and we
have ways of getting around it I don't think it helps us move forward
with people using/updating OpenStreetMap.
Maybe a banner or something instead?
As a U.S. voter I'm sorry about the whole SOPA mess.
Best,
-Kate
2012/1/17 Matthias Meißer<[email protected]>:
Hi,
first of all, sorry for bringing political discussions to the community, as
I always understand OSM as a political neutral space (we do creating maps,
nothing else).
But some of you might noticed that _Wikipedia will make a downtime_ at
Wednesday as a form of protest against the Stop Piracy Act (SOPA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA
As this law endangers the creation and exchange of free material, too
('shutdown OSM/jamendo/.../ as it seems that they copied my property!'), I
would like to ask, if we might support the wikipedia action?
I have no idea, if this could be technicaly done by the Admins, or what kind
of protest (complete shutdown, serving demo tiles, locking database, ... a
banner) would be accepted by the most of us. I just like to notify you, and
maybe start a discussion.
thanks
Matthias
(user:!i!)
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