Gavin Mabie wrote on 12/29/16 8:20 AM: > Hi Community > > Should the community come out clearly rejecting the Trump xenophobic > policies? Given the fact that community members comprise all cultures, > religions and geographies? > > Gavin
The ASF is a 501C3 non-profit that serves the public good by providing permissively licensed software and education and mentoring to the communities that create that software. As such, there are both legal limits, as well as practical limits on what sorts of politically-related statements the ASF as a formal organization can or will make in the political sphere. In particular, the ASF focuses on what we do best: providing core software development services and mentoring to our existing communities. So while I imagine many individual list subscribers would agree with you, I do not expect to see any formal political statements here. In general, I personally find them off-topic for this list, other than how specific and actual events are affecting our existing communities. I am very happy to see the great work on the diversity survey and other efforts to make both ComDev and many Apache projects welcoming to all productive contributors, no matter their circumstances or backgrounds. -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
