I am participating in the UN Open Science conference. #OpenScienceUN
https://www.un.org/library/OS21

Trump did great damage to the USA. The entire world is there with video calls, while the White House is now talking on the telephone. 🤡 At least it is land line quality.

@VictorVenema Scientists are practised at making comments look like questions. So as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy was there I asked:

"Mr. Sheehan, is the White House #OSTP aware that the main Open Source Code repository #GitHub is forced by the US to block several countries, which makes it useless for scientific use?"

#OpenScienceUN

@VictorVenema @VictorVenema A developer just told me they would be willing to expand & enhance a #FOSS tool, but because the project is in MS #GitHub, they opted not to. I just want that on record for those who think putting their project on Github encourages support.

@resist1984 @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @VictorVenema@bonn.social

When I find bugs, I want to report them as a responsible user. But if the project uses Github, I can't do it.

@redstarfish @resist1984 @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @VictorVenema@bonn.social I have the same problem with #gitlab. It's a pity that a protocol like git that was meant for #decentralization is now subject to platform wars. I guess someone should disrupt the whole thing by building a convenient #federated collaboration and communication infrastructure around git.