🛑 Russia invaded Ukraine

[vitalik]

Hi

My name is Vitaliy and I'm from Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine
The number of civilians killed is rising by the day
A lot of my friends and close ones are suffering from 24/7 shelling

I ask you to help us during these horrible days with few ways:

You can:

• Donate me personally a "cup of coffee" and I will redirect these money to volunteer organisations
• https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/ - use this link to Donate to Ukrainian volunteers
• https://war.ukraine.ua/donate/ - use this link to Donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Humanitarian aid - Donate to civilian assistance (food, medicaments, cloth, transportation)
• Find a local donation center you your contry to help with warm cloth and other important things
• If you live in Europe - please help our refugees to find temporary accommodation

(all links is verified by me)

Thank you
and I hope to get this over soon

[AliGx97]

I hope this war ends ASAP, may God bless and save you all 🙏🏻

[toudi]

@vitalik are you safe? do you require financial support?

[vitalik]

@toudi
thank you - I'm safe now

[AkeemMcLennon]

@vitalik Glad to hear you're safe! Please don't hesitate to let the community know if there's any way to help

[Ylodi]

I hope that this issue will be resolved very soon. Take care!

[yunge]

God bless you and your country!

[ghost]

Hi Vitaliy,

as the previous people said - let us know if we can be of any assistance to you and your family.

Слава Україні!

[Kimmyungetouh]

I hope that peace can return as soon as possible

[HoJin9622]

Please be safe

[hbutau]

Glad to hear that you are safe @vitalik ! Hope this war ends sooner.

[ddahan]

Hi @vitalik, are you still safe? Do you need any kind of help?

[pianist5555]

War in Europe in the 21st century is ridiculous. The whole world help Ukraine

[engAmirEng]

As an Iranian that is under dictatorship and heavy censorship of the Islamic Republic and has friends that are captured and tortured by the regime, I still think about the people of Ukraine and embarrassed about the bloody drones that are sold to Putin
🇺🇦💑🟢⚪🔴

[app-generator]

In the end, good will prevail.
Keep the faith @vitalik, @engAmirEng

[ReezeBL]

I really hope this war will end soon, striking invaders out of Donetsk and Lugansk!

[GigglePocket]

This unprovoked attack on Ukraine is an affront to humanity. Me and mine have supported and donated to the resistance against this atrocity and will continue to do so. If one free democratic state can be unjustly attacked and invaded by a tyrannical dictator, any free democratic state can, and likely will be. I stand with you. We stand with you.

[ZeyadMoustafaKamal]

I hope this war ends soon and I hope that people stand with Palestine, both wars are very bad for the lives of innocent people

[alexey-sveshnikov]

I wish you and all Ukrainians to be safe... And we hope this war will end soon, too :(

[ZechaZZ]

I truly hope that the wars in Ukraine, Palestine, and elsewhere will end soon. I advocate for lasting peace.

[linuxxxxxxx]

荣耀属于乌克兰！！！！！！希望你们健康平安。

[lorddaedra]

@vitalik , hello from Moscow :-)

You are a good developer and your project is making the world a better place (nice to have any good alternatives to DRF), I hope you are safe.

But this political discussion is hurting this open source project

1. your contributors may have different political stances (for example, all sides of this conflict may be equally disliked because it is a conflict between different economic and political elites of different states, not a conflict between ordinary people), it is more profitable to accept help from all sides, not just those who agree with your political stance, but if you agitate to financially support the army of one side of the conflict (the Ukrainian army in your case), it will reduce the number of people willing to help this project. I just can't contribute to this project.

2. when readers realize you live in Ukraine, they first think of the bus factor. (You have made 414 commits https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/graphs/contributors, the next contributor after you has only 41, meaning the project is linked to 1 person who can be mobilized at any time) So there is a concern that using such a project is unreliable, and given the first point, other contributors will be harder to find.

I realize that this discussion started because it was triggered by your strong emotions, but it's been more than 2 years since these events started, maybe it's time to change something...

[vitalik]

@lorddaedra

I realize that this discussion started because it was triggered by your strong emotions, but it's been more than 2 years since these events started, maybe it's time to change something...

Well I hate russians even more over these two years, and good thing is that this project brings good amount of donations that I dedicate to tools that help killing more invaders every day.

[ZeyadMoustafaKamal]

@lorddaedra Well I don't think that it works this way. If some country invaded Russia you might feel the same way he does. The only thing I agree with you about is that it's important to note that not all Russians are bad people. He is very angry because his country has been destroyed. And he is just trying to do anything to make the world listen.

[...some nonsense...] I will feel what the Ukrainians feel and I hope that this war ends soon. So anyway I don't think that it's bad that he posted this one here. And you as Russians it's important to tell the world that you also don't want this war to continue.

[lorddaedra]

@vitalik

Well I hate russians even more over these two years

You're human, I understand your emotions.

, and good thing is that this project brings good amount of donations that I dedicate to tools that help killing more invaders every day.

It's none of my business. It's your life, your donations, your decisions, your responsibility, and so on.

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My point of view is that perhaps open source as a global system with contributors from any region is more important than the interests of any state. More important than the US, EU, Ukraine or Russia.

Perhaps we should try to protect open source as a global system from the impact of various political conflicts.

Perhaps we shouldn't turn everything we own (I mean django-ninja) into a weapon. We may lose more than we gain.