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The current staff is very different. Christel is apparently gone. Only kloeri remains. https://freenode.net/people https://freenode.net/people Edit: Also comp

The current staff is very different. Christel is apparently gone. Only kloeri remains. https://freenode.net/people https://freenode.net/people Edit: Also compare to the staff listed in this deleted freenode blog linked by @gwd below. https://web.archive.org/web/20210423231439/https://freenode.net/news/freenode-reorg https://web.archive.org/web/20210423231439/https://freenode.... Edit 2: Who is OFTC and how do they fit in?

johnmaguire 5y ago
OFTC is another IRC network - irc.oftc.net
em-bee 5y ago
OFTC was founded by people who didn't like how freeenode was run. but that was quite some time ago. i don't remember the details but there were some issues very early on, and the people responsible for those issues left long ago.
rasengan 5y ago
OFTC is a competing IRC network run by tomaw who also is staging a hostile takeover of freenode as we speak.
- nenolod 5y ago
  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.
- wrycoder 5y ago
  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.net/people https://web.archive.org/web/20210423231451/https://freenode....
  - wrycoder 5y ago
    Edit: Given the situation with PIA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154226 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/88549ec34ee32d01629354e4075d2d48 https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e...
    - efreak 5y ago
      How is PIA related to any of this?
      - deleted 5y ago
        [deleted]
      - Macha 5y ago
        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 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 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.

johnmaguire 5y ago

OFTC is another IRC network - irc.oftc.net

em-bee 5y ago

OFTC was founded by people who didn't like how freeenode was run. but that was quite some time ago. i don't remember the details but there were some issues very early on, and the people responsible for those issues left long ago.

rasengan 5y ago

OFTC is a competing IRC network run by tomaw who also is staging a hostile takeover of freenode as we speak.

nenolod 5y ago
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.
wrycoder 5y ago
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.net/people https://web.archive.org/web/20210423231451/https://freenode....
- wrycoder 5y ago
  Edit: Given the situation with PIA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154226 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/88549ec34ee32d01629354e4075d2d48 https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e...
  - efreak 5y ago
    How is PIA related to any of this?
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
    - Macha 5y ago
      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 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 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.