[Qgis-user] Help Ukraine, Boycott Russia

[Hernán De Angelis]

Thank you Marco for this. It is an excellent message: constructive and 
positive, yet clear and strong enough to show the community's concern.

/H.

Den 2022-02-26 kl. 16:43, skrev Marco Bernasocchi:
>
> Dear QGIS Community,
>
>
> Thank you very much to all who participated in this thread. As a 
> project, we have made our position clear in the newsfeed (shown on the 
> QGIS Desktop start screen). As a general principle, we would like to 
> encourage users of QGIS to use the software for the good of humanity, 
> but we cannot tell people what they can and cannot do with the software.
>
> We would kindly ask that the discussions in this thread be moved 
> off-list so that we can maintain the central aim of supporting users 
> in their quest to make the best use of QGIS.
>
>
> On behalf of the PSC,
>
> Marco
>
>
>
>
>     Subject: 	Re: [Qgis-user] Help Ukraine, Boycott Russia
>     Date: 	Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:02:12 -0800
>     From: 	chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com>
>     <mailto:clhermansen at gmail.com>
>     To: 	Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>
>     CC: 	qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>     <mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
>
>     Anita and list members,
>
>     On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:49 AM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>
>     wrote:
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>         Good points, Jürgen!
>
>         On 25.02.2022 17:18, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>         > Anyway, I also think it's better to make a statement than to
>         exclude people
>         > from using QGIS (if we were even able to do so reliably).   
>         Maybe even
>         > something on our news feed
>
>         I agree that making a statement on the news feed is likely more
>         impactful than forcing users or contributors with Russian IPs
>         to use a VPN.
>
>         News items are displayed on every QGIS startup (if machines
>         are online)
>         while other messages would only be viewed by people visiting
>         the website.
>
>
>     Given the clarity in the GPL (under which QGIS is licensed) around
>     not restricting the freedom of others, I don't see how we QGIS
>     community members can advocate for limiting freedoms.
>
>     But I do like the idea of concrete positive things we can do as a
>     community, whether by naming upcoming versions of QGIS for cities
>     where people are oppressed by invaders or their own governments or
>     by engaging in public expressions of support as Andreas Neumann
>     suggested... here is another idea: what about individually
>     contributing some funds "in the name of QGIS and freedom" to
>     worthy organizations that will actually help the people of
>     Ukraine?  For example https://redcross.org.ua/en/ or possibly this
>     organization http://ukrainedemocracy.org/ Or maybe a Kickstarter
>     or GoFundMe to collectivize our contributions?
>
>
>     -- 
>     Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com
>
>     C'est ma façon de parler.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Marco Bernasocchi
>
> QGIS.org Chair
> OPENGIS.ch CEO
> http://berna.io
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