A Message to GitHub

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Introduction

GitHub used to be an open and free platform for everyone, but it has decided to restrict Iranian accounts from contributing and being part of the open-source ecosystem. Although we understand GitHub might make this decision under the pressure of US government, we were expecting more respectful action from GitHub.

1. GitHub restricted our access to private repositories suddenly, but at very least we wanted GitHub to warn us before limiting our access.

2. GitHub's team decided to take one step further and restrict us based on our Nationality no matter where we are living, while they were able to just restrict our IP addresses like other US-based companies.

Eventually, we are hoping that GitHub's team:

• let us download our private repositories and also make them public (setting control).
• change their restriction policies to not limiting users based on their Nationality.
• announce their decision publicly and apologize for making this situation (like what slack did before in the same situation: https://slackhq.com/an-apology-and-an-update).

Open-source projects made by Iranian developers

Some examples of open-source projects created by Iranian developers:

https://github.com/usablica/intro.js

https://github.com/lebab/lebab

https://github.com/saeedalipoor/icono

https://github.com/morteza/bootstrap-rtl

https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary

https://github.com/TheSNAKY/Lives

https://github.com/sasanrose/phpredmin

https://github.com/ahmdrz/goinsta

https://github.com/persepolisdm/persepolis

https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/pycm

https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art

https://github.com/imaNNeoFighT/fl_chart

You can find the full list here.

How you can support us

You can spread the message everywhere you can, and keep the Free Software "as in Free speech". You can:

• Star and share this repo on social platforms with #githubForEveryone.
• Add a folder with your username in "together" folder.
• Write a piece of code that prints "GitHub is for everyone" (in any language you wish).
• Create a pull request.
• Add your name and your country to the supporters section.

Further Readings

• Microsoft enters: GitHub banned Iranian developers!
• GitHub banned Iran-based users
• GitHub has blocked an Iranian software developer account
• GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions

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