Open source/Free software projects are global by default (even by definition). Open to everyone. So please stop this nonsense about „european“ Open source that „we“ should invest in. Digital sovereignty with open source means global upstream, global cooperation and local implementation. But nationalist open source thinking simply isn’t the software freedom we are fighting for since many years.
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@jwildeboer this is sadly not correct.
OSS projects under a legal umbrella and/or on a hosting platform are bound by the embargoes etc of the jurisdiction in which the umbrella and/or hosting platform reside.
Organizing PromCon, LF/CNCF gave us a whole list of countries we can not sell tickets to. This list felt longer than last time I organized it. A conference under a European umbrella would have a shorter list.
The same is directionally correct for the actual source code.
@zacchiro @jwildeboer in addition to this, it can also be an argument in favor of seeding and creating local knowledge. Creating and having clusters of high quality skills is a long term plus.
To stay in the Red Hat analogy, I am certain that the Brno region will benefit from knowledge, startups, better staff, etc which moved to the area or received better education there as a direct and indirect effect of Red Hat's office location choice for a very long time.
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
Stefano Zacchiroli