Ukraine Invasion by Russia: what response from Atlassian?

[Andy Brook]

Atlassian, please speak up on this topic...

• https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/when-silence-and-inaction-kills/56229
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Off-topic-discussions/Miscellaneous-Monday-Thoughts-amp-prayers-to-everyone-impacted/td-p/1957491
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Off-topic-discussions/For-Ukraine/td-p/1956591

In the past decade of working in the Atlassian ecosystem there have been many conflicts that Atlassian have navigated under the banner of 'not doing politics' and 'we help teams'.  I think the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia constitutes a bit of a different situation that demands a response.

Sure, we get that 'customer impact' is a thing, that the general public do not necessarily support their leadership decisions, but that's not really sufficient reason to not do something about a country triggering such a humanitarian crisis.

80% of Russian banks are already frozen by world wide sanction (including US - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0608), potentially preventing Marketplace license purchase.  As a vendor I ask for clarification from Atlassian on what additional pro-active steps you are taking here, when will you take action to stop sales to Russia and Belarus?

• https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/JIRA/Russia
• https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Atlassian-Confluence/Russia

Apple have already banned sales ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-says-it-has-stopped-all-product-sales-in-russia-11646169327 ) - hopefully app store sales...

As a small vendor in the ecosystem, we have stopped direct sales to Russia and, turning down 'big' orders for 'big' business in the last few days, we have no control over what Atlassian does for Marketplace, hence this post.

Atlassian?

[Monique vdB]

@Andy Brook thank you for your passion. Our founders published a blog today with a response in support of Ukraine. It addresses many facets of this issue but in response to your main question, they said this:

In response to Russia’s aggression, we are pausing the sale of all new software to Russia. In addition, we are suspending existing Russian state-owned licenses as well as licenses to specific Russian businesses that support the war (via cyber warfare, combat, or disinformation). This includes our third-party Marketplace apps.

[Andy Brook]

Great, thank you!

[Allyce Mardesich]

@Andy Brook Atlassian has released a statement on our support for Ukraine. We’ve also started a new thread here on the Developer Community to capture questions and additional feedback.

[Vlad]

Could it be that Atlassian blocked some IPs of Ukrainian regions?
Is there a way about how to inform Atlassian about IP blocked accidentally?

[Allyce Mardesich]

If you open a support ticket here with specific details of what you or a customer is experiencing, we can have our team look into it.

[Vlad]

Hi Allyce, 

Thank you 

it is here https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/This-site-can-t-be-reached-atlassian-com-and-atlassian-net/qaq-p/2057592#U2075711

[Kuanysh Belsariyev]

@Monique vdB HI!
We are users of the server version of confluence and are planning to switch to a data center.

The question is that our organization is Kazakhstani and an article was published about the possible imposition of sanctions by the United States.

Question:
- Will the shutdown of licenses affect us, in case of sanctions?
- Will we lose the available data without the possibility of recovery, in case of sanctions?

[Serhii]

I am a developer from Ukraine and I am located inside the country. Yesterday my account was closed without explanation. What is going on? Has Atlassian sided with Russia?

Rockets and drones are flying overhead, the electricity is being cut off, and Atlassian has also introduced repression against Ukrainian developers.