[TriLUG] TriLUG and Freenode - where do we go from here?

[Hrivnak, Michael via TriLUG]

libera.chat seems to be the next generation of freenode, created by the
former freenode staff to take freenode's place. Many big projects including
python, fedora, centos, ubuntu, fosdem, wikimedia/wikipedia, curl,
prometheus, etc. are moving formally to libera.

The other reasonable option is oftc.net, which has been home to debian,
libvirt, and others for years.

Michael

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:32 AM Jeffery Painter via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> FYI - the ASF mailing list posted similar remarks about potentially
> moving to libera.
>
> https://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat
>
>
> --
>
> Jeffery Painter
>
>
> On 5/19/21 10:24 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG wrote:
> > Additional commentary by Jess is at:
> > https://gist.github.com/jesopo/45a3e9cdbe517dc55e6058eb43b00ed9
> >
> > She suggests irc.libera.chat
> >
> > -B
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TriLUG <trilug-bounces+bhenning=pineresearch.com at trilug.org> On
> Behalf Of Kevin Faulkner via TriLUG
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 10:16 AM
> > To: Mark Turner <jmarkturner at gmail.com>; Triangle Linux Users Group
> General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TriLUG and Freenode - where do we go from here?
> >
> > On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 10:03:49 AM EDT Mark Turner via TriLUG wrote:
> >> The big news this morning is that Freenode as we know it is dead. Does
> >> TriLUG have plans for what to do now?
> >>
> > Wow this is news to me. For what it's worth, Synapse/Matrix is federated
> and has multiple bridges that could be used. There really is no shortage of
> chat platforms out there today.
> >>   From https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461:
> >>
> >> "As it is now known, the freenode IRC network has been taken over by a
> >> narcissistic Trumpian wannabe korean royalty bitcoins millionaire. To
> >> make a long story short, the former freenode head of staff secretly
> >> "sold" the network to this person even if it was not hers to sell, and
> >> our lawyers have advised us that there is not much that we can do
> >> about it without some of us risking financial ruin. Fuck you Christel,
> >> lilo's life work did not deserve this.
> >>
> >> *What you knew as freenode after 12:00 UTC of May 19 will be managed
> >> by different people.*
> >>
> >> As I have no desire to volunteer under the new regime, this marks the
> >> end of my involvement with freenode. It had started in 1999 when I
> >> encouraged the good parts of |#linux-it| to leave ircnet, and soon
> >> after I became senior staff. Even if I have not been very active
> >> recently, at this point I was the longest-serving freenode staff
> >> member and now I expect that I will hold this record forever.
> >>
> >> The people that I have met on IRC, on freenode and other networks,
> >> have been and still are a very important part of my life, second only
> >> to the ones that I have known thanks to Usenet. I am not fine, but I
> >> know that the communities which I have been a part of are not defined
> >> by a domain name and will regroup somewhere else."
> >>
> >> ---------------------------
> >>
> >> More info:
> >> https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> a.k.a. h0tgrits
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