Freenode and libera.chat

Mohammed Naser mnaser at vexxhost.com
Thu May 20 14:55:17 UTC 2021


On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:23 AM Erno Kuvaja <ekuvaja at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> For those of you who have not woken up to this sad day yet. Andrew Lee has taken his stance as owner of freenode ltd. and by the (one sided) story of the former volunteer staff members basically forced the whole community out.
>
> As there is history of LTM shutting down networks before (snoonet), it is appropriate to expect that the intentions here are not aligned with the communities and specially the users who's data he has access to via this administrative takeover.
>
> I think it's our time to take swift action and show our support to all the hard working volunteers who were behind freenode and move all our activities to irc.libera.chat.
>
> Please see https://twitter.com/freenodestaff and Christian's letter which links to the others as well https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt
>
> Best,
> Erno 'jokke' Kuvaja

I'd like to invite those who feel very strongly about this subject to
add it to the OpenStack technical committee meeting agenda and bring
it up to discussion.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee

Given the next meeting is in 5 minutes, it might be a little late for
this week, but good to push for next weeks.  Thank you.

-- 
Mohammed Naser
VEXXHOST, Inc.



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