Re:I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
by rasengan on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:47AM
(#27155504)
OFTC is a competing IRC network run by tomaw who also is staging a hostile takeover of freenode as we speak.
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Re:I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
by nenolod on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:11PM
(#27156750)
OFTC is run by the OFTC board (of which tomaw is a member) on behalf of Software in the Public Interest, who originally organized it for Debian.
Re:I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
by wrycoder on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:46PM
(#27158206)
According to the current freenode people page, tomaw is head of staffing, projects and communities and also the overall project lead in charge of the other heads.
Edit: here’s the staff as of 23 Apr. tomaw is still there today, the rest are gone, including fuchs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210423231451/https://freenode....
Re:I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
by wrycoder on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:57PM
(#27158327)
Edit: Given the situation with PIA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154226
maybe it wold be a positive event from the POV of the free sw community?
Edit 2: Er, I guess not:
https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e...
Re:I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
by efreak on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:24AM
(#27184498)
How is PIA related to any of this?
Re:I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
by Macha on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:38AM
(#27207196)
rasengan was a co-founder of PIA, and became involved in Freenode via "freenode becoming officially part of the PIA family" in 2017: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
This was later downplayed in 2019, after PIA was acquired by a company Kape with a poor track record: https://freenode.net/news/freenode-pia-changes
It appears shells.net which is another rasengan company (but not associated with Kape?) has since taken PIA's place in the organisation.