[Themaintainers] A Maintainers Acknowledgement?

[Camille Acey]

I'm toying with the idea of instead of doing land acknowledgements (which are all the rage amongst leftie settlers on "indigenous land")  that people -- particularly academics and other such book hawkers-- doing online panels and lectures acknowledge the platform and server and laptop and chips and miners who had to extract those chip materials. The wifi and underwater cable installers and servicers. The university admins, the publishers, and the underpaid bookstore workers.  The trees that were cut down and pulped to print their books. The libraries. The students squeezed broke or put into debt by the university admisssion. The purveyors of university endowments and other such wealthy benefactors, and more importantly the workers that enabled that largesse. 

Has anyone seen or done a Maintainers Acknowledgement? Would it make sense?

Camille
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