[gdal-dev] [PROJ] Fwd: About organizing a general strike

[Michael Sumner]

I worry that significant funders will respond by maintaining their own
forks and permanently fragment the ecosystem. Maybe that's already happened.

But, I also think we all will soon be in permanent emergency and so rather
ensure efforts prioritize humanitarian support.

Best

Michael Sumner
Research Software Engineer
Australian Antarctic Division
Hobart, Australia
0438489030
e-mail: mdsumner at gmail.com

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 21:08 Greg Troxel via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Even Rouault via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org> writes:
>
> > -------- Message transféré --------
> > Sujet :       About organizing a general strike
> > Date :        Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:32:36 +0200
> > De :  Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> > Pour :        OSGeo Discuss list <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> >
> > So I propose a general strike from the OSGeo community
> >
> > Motivation: that's actually the gist of the debate there is so much
> > things about why we could strike. But here in France, we don't really
> > need a good reason to strike. This is part of the life style, of live
> > hygiene.
> >
> > So here's my motion:
> >
> > "OSGeo developers start a general strike. Motives to follow up in next
> > press release, or not."
>
> I don't understand what the point is, even though I could guess a few
> things, perhaps damage to the community caused by LLMs and those who are
> willing to use them.  I don't think it's proper for osgeo as a group (or
> any other group that isn't specifically constituted as politcal
> activism) to cross into politics other than what directly bears on
> osgeo's work (e.g. non-open data from governments, LLM-caused problems
> in the osgeo world).
>
> I don't follow asking people to approve a general strike for no stated
> reason with reasons to be provided later, that they might or might not
> want to sign onto.
>
> Overall, I feel like I must be missing some context.
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