Thank you Marco for this. It is an excellent message: constructive and
positive, yet clear and strong enough to show the community's concern.
/H.
Den 2022-02-26 kl. 16:43, skrev Marco Bernasocchi:
Dear QGIS Community,
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.
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.
On behalf of the PSC,
Marco
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Help Ukraine, Boycott Russia
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:02:12 -0800
From: chris hermansen <clherman...@gmail.com>
<mailto:clherman...@gmail.com>
To: Anita Graser <anitagra...@gmx.at> <mailto:anitagra...@gmx.at>
CC: qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org>
<mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org>
Anita and list members,
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:49 AM Anita Graser <anitagra...@gmx.at>
wrote:
Good points, Jürgen!
On 25.02.2022 17:18, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Anyway, I also think it's better to make a statement than to
exclude people
> from using QGIS (if we were even able to do so reliably).
Maybe even
> something on our news feed
I agree that making a statement on the news feed is likely more
impactful than forcing users or contributors with Russian IPs
to use a VPN.
News items are displayed on every QGIS startup (if machines
are online)
while other messages would only be viewed by people visiting
the website.
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.
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 https://redcross.org.ua/en/ or possibly this
organization http://ukrainedemocracy.org/ Or maybe a Kickstarter
or GoFundMe to collectivize our contributions?
--
Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com
C'est ma façon de parler.
--
Marco Bernasocchi
QGIS.org Chair
OPENGIS.ch CEO
http://berna.io
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