Please consider appending language to petition that rejects the Open Source Definition and its principles, as signing this petition implicitly does so :)

#130 fixes this.

NeverAgain.tech used Github for a petition and we spent many hours resolving literally hundreds of conflicts. Consider using a Jekyll collection instead:
neveragaindottech/neveragaindottech.github.io#472

I would be happy to set it up for you if you'd like to try it!

Hi,
If im not mistaken, there was a repo a few weeks ago with the same kind of political engagement. They were banned from trending repos. The reason? The violated the TOS by not publishing anything related to code or something like that(honestly, I never read the TOS). I’ll not judge them or you, but I think they can make the same with you guys. Watch out!
BTW, this subject is a great one to discuss on a “neutral” place, like reddit or hn.

Great initiative all.

It would be great if there was a guide (or a link to one), showing the alternatives to GitHub, along with a migration process - in the event that Microsoft stands their ground.

Perhaps outlining how easy it would be to move away from GitHub may draw further participants?

❤️

Psa: cages were built by Obama. He also had 7-country travel ban, all Muslim. He also killed a US citizen without trial. He deported more illegal s than Trump.

Ask Microsoft to drop dnc as well.

If you can not migrate your projects away from GitHub, send a PR that removes your name from the list immediately, so we can keep track of the people that are actually going to leave this platform.

Please take action, because detainment, denaturalization, deportation, and family separation are very serious issues, and we need to see some action from the people that have signed this. How do we stand up to a monopoly like Microsoft when we can't put our heads together?

I have taken #111 into consideration, and seeing that GitLab is affiliated with the US Air Force, is moving to them a bad idea? I think we should take self-hosted Git services into consideration, like Gitea, a self-hosted instance of GitLab or GitBucket, which is also self hosted.

Migration from GitHub

Self hosted looks like the way to go, because it leaves a lot less control in the hands of companies, so they can't just "go bad" on you and install a paywall, or provide "better integration" between services.

By using GitHub and investing our time into it, we are making it harder for us to leave. Think of it like quicksand. The earlier you leave GitHub, the easier it'll be for you, and it leaves Microsoft with less control over your development workflow as a whole.

Find more self-hosted solutions in this subreddit, as I have probably missed a few: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/6aahi0/about_selfhosted_git_server/

Below are some links for migrating away from GitHub.

• How to migrate from GitHub to GitLab.
• A blog item about why Microsoft acquiring GitHub is bad news.
• An update on Microsoft buying GitHub.
• Exporting your data from GitHub.
• Deleting your GitHub account.
• Migrating to a self hosted GitLab instance 👍.

Alternatives

I've compiled a list of alternatives to GitHub here.

People don't trust Microsoft, and they are not hiding it. If you disagree with this acquisition, feel free to share this repository on social media, because it really does have some potential.

I hope this post has inspired / helped you to leave GitHub in any way, as that is the end goal of this project.

With this in mind, I'd like to thank everyone that has signed this petition, but it's still not enough. We need to show Microsoft we're not going to take this.

Thank you for your time, and have a great weekend.

creating references towards each others struggle while tryn to find synergy effects, helps to transport revolutionary idea from one movement into the other to build actions behond the own circle.

Since a couple of month workers within amazon getting more open to call out their demands, also through strikes. As I know, are also workers activly tryn to take position against amazon hosting for ICE.

For somewhen in July, workers are about to organize a general strike. I have no direct contact to those workers nor organizer.
But thought expanding their demands to make amazon stop the ICE contract, could help them gaining stronger moral ground to take action, since it isn't just something they then do for themself, but solidary for others.

For the github strike/drop out maybe choosing the same date as them and also widening the call to take action: against any insitution that supports ICE.

(just some thoughts, feedback aprichiated)

I guess we can start calling bank robberies "Undocumented loans".

Stop trying to sugarcoat people breaking the law. Yeah sure the system sucks, but people are still breaking the law.

It's been three years. I'm sad to say that GitHub ignored all of our efforts to get them to acknowledge this petition's existence. It never even broke 500 signers despite significant press attention. And I appear to be one of the few signers who ever made good on moving my repos off the site. So I'm gonna chalk this up to a valiant but failed effort and come to terms with the fact that we all have no choice but to work with GitHub because of its dominance in the open-source space. Hopefully, we can all find more significant ways in our professional and volunteer capacities to push Microsoft and the other major providers we are all stuck working with to embrace ethics over profits.

If given access, I can help merge the PR's coming in. 😄

Sorry if I'm raining on your parade but remember a week or two ago when everybody was like "If MS buys GH, I'm going back to SourceForge" or whatever? I think everybody knows these are hollow threats. Good luck though.

You people do realize that microsoft didn't even "buy" GitHub yet, right?
The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year.
This whole repository is an emtpy and unjustified threat to a - so far - unrelated company.

I am curious about how many of the people signing here have ever actually visited a detention centre to give those people some company, or did anything else to directly better these people's immediate dire situation?

I don't know about the US, but I have visited the detention centre here in Bangkok, and I can tell you that the people appreciate visitors. They appreciate someone from the outside to talk to. They appreciate that it gives them the opportunity to get out of their cramped quarters for a while. They appreciate the food and other gifts that the visitors bring them.

So maybe, instead of signing petitions and trying to bully companies into doing certain things, why not take some initiative yourselves, do a trip to one of these centres and go make someone's day a little better.

BTW, governments across the world are involved daily in causing a lot of pain and suffering in many people's lives. If you want to be consistent you should start boycotting any company that does any sort of business with any government.

@github Just wanted to raise awareness for the pledge http://neveragain.tech
which was also signed by many (influential) github employees.

Here is the link.

To the organizers of this repository, I'm volunteering to help with reviewing and approving PRs, with the hope of reducing your time requirements.

I really like this project, and I think it's an innovating and very interesting way to use GitHub.

Hello everyone.

I think it's great you've established this ultimatum, but I haven't found any indication for how long you've given Microsoft to make a decision.

It's important you establish a date in which you will all be leaving Github and transferring your projects. Without an organized deadline your threat of leaving just doesn't seem that serious.

Happy to discover this respiratory.

I just like to share some thoughts to expand the idea of leaving github.

I've been discussing with a couple of devs. Many felt that they won't dedicate for the moment resources to organize the drop out of github.

So I believe an action where also those that don't want to leave in that moment can participate in, can expand our reach and strengh.

Here some thoughts:

• setting a date to strike
• using github during the strike to spread and collect info about ICE and microsoft involvment, and how it is linked to ones own usage of github
• calling within the strike for a date we will drop out, in case doesn't change their position
• using the strike to deconstruct fascist/racist ideology
• call onto others to reflect their privilidges
  ...
  basicly, stop coding for some days for a politizising process within github

Here's one of the threads I've discussed with devs:
(it's a long one...)
TwidereProject/Twidere-Android#1135