<div dir="auto"><div><div>I worry that significant funders will respond by maintaining their own forks and permanently fragment the ecosystem. Maybe that's already happened.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But, I also think we all will soon be in permanent emergency and so rather ensure efforts prioritize humanitarian support.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr">Michael Sumner</div><div dir="ltr">Research Software Engineer<br>Australian Antarctic Division<br>Hobart, Australia</div><div dir="ltr">0438489030<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:mdsumner@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mdsumner@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 21:08 Greg Troxel via gdal-dev <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Even Rouault via PROJ <<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>> writes:<br>
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> Sujet : About organizing a general strike<br>
> Date : Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:32:36 +0200<br>
> De : Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>><br>
> Pour : OSGeo Discuss list <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
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> So I propose a general strike from the OSGeo community<br>
><br>
> Motivation: that's actually the gist of the debate there is so much<br>
> things about why we could strike. But here in France, we don't really<br>
> need a good reason to strike. This is part of the life style, of live<br>
> hygiene.<br>
><br>
> So here's my motion:<br>
><br>
> "OSGeo developers start a general strike. Motives to follow up in next<br>
> press release, or not."<br>
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I don't understand what the point is, even though I could guess a few<br>
things, perhaps damage to the community caused by LLMs and those who are<br>
willing to use them. I don't think it's proper for osgeo as a group (or<br>
any other group that isn't specifically constituted as politcal<br>
activism) to cross into politics other than what directly bears on<br>
osgeo's work (e.g. non-open data from governments, LLM-caused problems<br>
in the osgeo world).<br>
<br>
I don't follow asking people to approve a general strike for no stated<br>
reason with reasons to be provided later, that they might or might not<br>
want to sign onto.<br>
<br>
Overall, I feel like I must be missing some context.<br>
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