OK, if that's the general opinion here I'll avoid asking my questions. Pity, as I really think that manipulation of open data is going to be a key part of (technical) genealogy, very soon. As your last paragraph mentions (and as the question on capitalisation shows), asking genealogy-specific questions elsewhere isn't likely to lead to meaningful answers. Questions about matching historical place names for a specific state or country for geocoding probably falls within the GIS Q&A forum, but the chances that somebody there has the expertise to answer is much lower than here.

Different people have different levels of "using technology to support your research". Some are end-users, and consumers of commercial sites. Some want to combine data they have with public sources and/or automate some of their genealogy research. Automation can involve programming or scripting (even if it's just a spreadsheet macro). It also requires access to and often manipulation of data from various sources. To me, asking about the availability of data, and asking about the best ways to use that data (such as name matching, geocoding), are part of "using technology for genealogy".

That was just an example question (see the "other questions" paragraph also), to give an idea of the type of questions that arise during the development of genealogy software (especially when, as will become more common, dealing with open data sources in many formats). Since it's specifically about how to ensure the algorithm tries to consider different languages and cultures, it's unlikely to be appropriate in an English language forum either. More of an internationalisation question, but the extra genealogy twist would be to consider how this has changed over time and with emigration.