The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

[Ahmad Samir]

On 19/05/2021 20:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> El mié, 19 de may. de 2021 a la(s) 14:53, Carl Schwan
> (carl at carlschwan.eu) escribió:
>>
>> Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 7:45 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraesslin at kde.org> a écrit :
>>
>>> Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021, 10:34:26 CEST schrieb Christian:
>>>
>>>> Dear KDE community,
>>>> KDE has been using the free services of the freenode IRC networks for a
>>>> little bit more than two decades, and hopefully happily and successfully
>>>> so.
>>>
>>> Thanks for informing us. This sounds horrible and must have been a very
>>> stressful time for all of you staffers.
>>>
>>>> Due to this leakage, Andrew Lee (former PIA/LTM, now shells.com)
>>>> learned of the new situation and asked democratically elected
>>>> freenode volunteers to step down from their position, as seen in the
>>>> logs linked on [4] [5] [6]
>>>> Therefore making the takover attempt and some details public.
>>>
>>> Given that this is driven byshells.com I think the KDE community should step
>>> up and remove all references to shells.com. Their behavior in this case goes
>>> clearly against our values.
>>
>> I agree and created two merge requests:
>>
>> * https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/merge_requests/104
>> * https://invent.kde.org/websites/neon-kde-org/-/merge_requests/8
>>
>> I would prefer if it's someone who was involved with setting this up that merges
>> these two MRs. CC Jonathan and Aleix
> 
> Aren't they sponsors? We can't *just* remove them from the website...
> 

Yes, first give them their "sponsoring" (whatever that was) back, then remove them from the website.

(Just for the sake of fairness, we haven't heard their side of the story; obviously I am biased, the
staffers who have been doing all the heavy lifting for years, their word is backed by years of
work... :)).

> --
> Nicolás
> 

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Ahmad Samir