[QGIS-Developer] [PROJ] Fwd: About organizing a general strike

[Greg Troxel]

Even Rouault via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

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> 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.