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

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 7:45 PM Martin Flöser <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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 by shells.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.

It seems to me that we are jumping to conclusions only based on hearsay.

Today at the Board call we talked with Fuchs and Duffus about
Freenode. I've reached out to our Shells contact to see what's
happening and will be talking to them soon.
At this point the connection between this Freenode kerfuffle and
Shells is unclear to me, I'd prefer to understand what the situation
is before we ban them from our websites because they're somehow
related by blood.

Aleix