Hello! I became aware of the GNU Assembly on Mastodon, I emotionally depend on the existence of guidelines such as the adopted Code of Conduct in any project I contribute to. I am willing to revisit GNU as a project so that it's political goals can be kept but the means to achieve them can be altered and discussed in constructive ways without much of the existing opinion "crystals" that exist and to me don't feel right in various cases. I do not feel well with top-down governance of the FSF and the GNU project, I feel like leaving GNU and FSF is also giving up on the political goals in practice now, so I very much welcome initiatives like this GNU Assembly to re-think GNU without giving up on it. I am a GNU Guix committer, I collaborated on the PowerPC 64-bits port and more recently security work. I am really enthusiastic about tackling exciting technical challenges with like-minded software freedom loving folks. I am strarving for this initiative since a while, I have felt limited with the political vision of many other software hobbyist communities. I also hope that various political reasonings can overlap, for example, that the idea of rejecting all proprietary hardware has an horrible environmental impact and that politically it may be better to defend something else while still aiming at the same thing. I hope that the Free Software movement can keep making sense in the presence of various other political movements that are as important and that the Free Software movement does not become contradictory to them. I think the various GNU licenses in their current state and copyleft are really important and I wouldnt want them to change in a way similar to Copyfair, Ethical Source, etc. I think software in general is a collaborative effort, I think it must federate the largest communities of developers, I think that GNU licenses are especially interesting because they federate so much with people from so many different political backgrounds. I think we need many people to achieve anything durably with software. I think Copyfair, Ethical source, etc, are not durable in that they encode strong restrictions highly dependent on the current societal context and that we cannot afford to recode all software when we realize those arent good anymore. Léo