Re:Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued
by abstractbeliefs on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:25PM
(#27487549)
I think this is mostly throwing out chaff for PR purposes:
1) They're not giving the money back, or better and less conflict-of-interesty, giving it to a neutral pro-foss org like FSFE
2) They continue to intimately support freenode
3) Fosshost directors remain as freenode staff but in a """personal""" capacity, despite being overruled unanimously by the fosshost non-director staff.
Nothing concrete has changed, the only thing they have done is roll back their desire to integrate more deeply.
Re:Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued
by zatertip on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:34PM
(#27487603)
Staff continuing on as freenode staff is really dodgy, especially now that #python was just manually hijacked in the last 24 hours and Python foundation staff klined. Not a good look to be in such company.
1) They're not giving the money back, or better and less conflict-of-interesty, giving it to a neutral pro-foss org like FSFE
2) They continue to intimately support freenode
3) Fosshost directors remain as freenode staff but in a """personal""" capacity, despite being overruled unanimously by the fosshost non-director staff.
Nothing concrete has changed, the only thing they have done is roll back their desire to integrate more deeply.
There was one concrete change[0] just three days ago:
> Application reviews are backlogged and new applications are temporarily suspended
[0] https://fosshost.org/news/applications-temporarily-suspended
Previously:
Fosshost Enters Partnership with Freenode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366364
Freenode and Fosshost Partner to Empower FOSS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371829