It's done. GitHub has sold us out. But this is not the end, or even the beginning of the end. The world is the way it is because people give up too soon. #Resistance needs persistence and #solidarity. If not us, then whom?
This repo is now the 2nd highest trending repo on GitHub and already 1600 stars in only 2½ days of existence. Traffic is growing exponentially. Thanks to all of you spreading the word.
If you haven't already, please star this repo. Each star makes our voice louder, and helps others find us. Spread the word within GitHub any way you can. Outside GitHub: share, tweet or post a link to this repo. Click the photo below to retweet it.
You all are from so many countries! That makes me happy. But also embarrassed that I might sound too American-centric. I'm not. Let me know if I should re-word anything.
The immediate goal is to be a sort of GitHub Evacuation Center. A space for evacuees to declare their status (in protest to GitHub, Microsoft and the world). A space to learn or share escape routes — the best places to move you and your projects. (I'll create a page where we can collaborate on info like that, after I get some sleep.)
Long term the goal is to seed a resistance movement for a free, open and people-driven internet in service of a free, open and people-driven world.
I've got to figure out how we stay connected, how best to enable collaboration. Would it be a contradiction or ironically perfect to do it on GitHub itself? If you have ideas, let me know.
Even though many of us (I hope all of us) will leave GitHub when we are able, some immediately, some only after they figure out the best alternative, it makes sense to keep this evacuee camp right here on GitHub. It will serve as a line of communication to people still on GitHub. If they shut this down, it will only validate our exodus. So even if you want to cut out immediately and delete everything, consider keeping at least a bare presence and association with this repo, at least until we make camp elsewhere.
But you can also follow upend.org on twitter. Or send an email to github.evacuees@upend.org.
If you have a way with words, or other ideas to further the cause, please create an issue or a pull request. Or send me an email at the above address.
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