<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-80528534-7fff-aaa1-f906-a8ae44db18ff"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear QGIS Community,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of the PSC,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marco</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><th valign="BASELINE" nowrap align="RIGHT">Subject:
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<td>Re: [Qgis-user] Help Ukraine, Boycott Russia</td>
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<td>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:02:12 -0800</td>
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<td>chris hermansen <a href="mailto:clhermansen@gmail.com" target="_blank"><clhermansen@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td>Anita Graser <a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank"><anitagraser@gmx.at></a></td>
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<td>qgis-user <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"><qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org></a></td>
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<div dir="ltr">Anita and list members,<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:49
AM Anita Graser <<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good points, Jürgen!<br>
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On 25.02.2022 17:18, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:<br>
> Anyway, I also think it's better to make a statement
than to exclude people<br>
> from using QGIS (if we were even able to do so
reliably). Maybe even<br>
> something on our news feed<br>
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I agree that making a statement on the news feed is likely
more<br>
impactful than forcing users or contributors with Russian
IPs to use a VPN.<br>
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News items are displayed on every QGIS startup (if machines
are online)<br>
while other messages would only be viewed by people visiting
the website.<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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 <a href="https://redcross.org.ua/en/" target="_blank">https://redcross.org.ua/en/</a>
or possibly this organization <a href="http://ukrainedemocracy.org/" target="_blank">http://ukrainedemocracy.org/</a>
Or maybe a Kickstarter or GoFundMe to collectivize our
contributions?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot"
com<br>
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C'est ma façon de parler.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Marco Bernasocchi<div><div><br></div><div>QGIS.org Chair<br>OPENGIS.ch CEO</div></div><div><a href="http://berna.io" target="_blank">http://berna.io</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>