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<p>Jeroen,</p>
<p>thanks for your answer and your remainder of the fundamentally
human-centered nature of our community. I fully support
discussions in the community to debate on how to address this
brutal incursion of this new technology that deserves extreme
care into our projects (and far beyond...)</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Even</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 24/06/2026 à 22:44, Jeroen Ticheler
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<div>Dear Even,</div>
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<div>Thank you for taking time to contact us on the topic of using
AI in OSGeo projects. This topic has our full attention and we
want you to know we take your concerns very serious.</div>
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<div>As a board, and as a foundation, we will not take a position
in wether or not a project adopts or bans AI generated
contributions to a project. That is for the PSC and community to
decide. </div>
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<div>We plan to run a Bird of a Feather session at both FOSS4G
Europe and FOSS4G 2026 Hiroshima to have a direct conversation
on the topic.</div>
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<div>We do feel strongly that (Agentic) AI should not be
considered as subject to the Code of Conduct of OSGeo or any of
its projects. We are a community of human beings that use
computer systems, but always under human responsibility and
supervision.</div>
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<div>We do also wish to offer a listening ear and organise
meetings to jointly work towards sustained and positive
collaboration within OSGeo project communities if those involved
in the debate feel that is something to pursue.</div>
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<div>Looking forward to hear from you if you are open to this.</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
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<div>Jeroen</div>
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<div>On 21 Jun 2026, at 14:14, Even Rouault via Board
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<div>Hi board,<br>
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In case you haven't seen it, it seems the PostGIS project
has embraced LLM tools at an industrial (= inhuman) scale.
Very concerning discussion thread at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2026-June/thread.html#30773">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2026-June/thread.html#30773</a>
, and in the last few days a rage of opened (and merged)
pull requests. See my message at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2026-June/030844.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2026-June/030844.html</a><br>
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LLMs are destroying our communities: not an opinion, just
a fact.<br>
<br>
Even<br>
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LLMs contribute to global warming<br>
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