<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Hello
everyone. sorry but I completely disagree with you. Pushing a diverse and
multicultural community to agree on a political point of view can lead
to divisions, wasted time and distraction from OSGeo's real needs.
Asking to "not be indifferent" is a well known polarizing technique.
Attempts to oversimplify the complexity of reality without even trying
to acknowledge that there are different opinions and interests, obstructs the pursuit of truth and disrespects those who
value critical thinking.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I
believe that the OSGeo Community shall focus on bringing our beautiful
software to THE NEXT LEVEL and not playing the same games that are used
by the "market economy or capitalism".</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Let's find ways that have a real impact by concrete examples of openness, friendship and community! Let's try to be better than them!</font></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">✊ <font size="4">Viva Open Source Software </font>✊</div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">This is just my 2 cents point of view, don't take it personally..<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Milan</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">For example 👇👇👇 <span role="gridcell"><span name="Luís Moreira de Sousa via Discuss"><span>@Luís Moreira de Sousa </span></span></span>this attitude does not belong to the open source spirit</font><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_m7iok65u0" alt="image.png" width="552" height="74"><br><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno dom 23 feb 2025 alle ore 19:14 Luís Moreira de Sousa via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px">Dear Even,</div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px">when I was a child, the priest in our parish used to say that everything we do in life is political. I am not certain such direct confrontation is the best way to dissuade regular folk from voting for autocratic movements, but doing something is certainly better than doing nothing. The SpatiaLite project, for instance, is taking things even further [0]. If I am allowed to give advice on the matter, just be careful not to undermine a project for little influence on the public discourse.</div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px">Take care.</div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px">P.S.: as much as I am troubled with the cahos spawned by the US government, to what open source is concerned, the CRA still appears to me as the greatest challenge in the coming years.</div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px">[0] <span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html</a></span></div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,Courier New,monospace;font-size:14px"><div><div>-- <br></div><div>Luís Moreira de Sousa</div><div>Mastodon: <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa</a></span><br></div><div>URL: <a href="https://ldesousa.codeberg.page" target="_blank">https://ldesousa.codeberg.page</a></div>
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On Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:17, Even Rouault via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've started an activist campaign of open source projects want to
join the protest against the US government stupid, cruel and
dangerous politics that affect the whole world ?</p>
<p>I've initiated the move with GDAL (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865</a>
, with follow ups in <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875</a>,
<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876</a>,
<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877</a>)
, and also pushing for PROJ (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406</a>)
, MapServer (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233" target="_blank">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233</a>)
and GEOS (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243" target="_blank">https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243</a>)
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<p>Anyone else ?</p>
<p>I don't agree that we should stay away from politics. Our
projects only make sense in the context of a free society, and
this freedom is at high stake. We have admittedly little power,
but we can and should exercise it with the tools at our disposal.
The addition of small little acts might end up having visible
consequences.<br>
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<p>Even<br>
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My software is free, but my time generally not.
Note to current US government: stop messing with the world!</pre>
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