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Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued
- zatertip 5y agoFosshost just announced that they have discontinued the previously announced partnership with freenode. Previously: Fosshost Enters Partnership with Freenode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366364 Freenode and Fosshost Partner to Empower FOSS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371829
- abstractbeliefs 5y agoI 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.
- zatertip 5y agoStaff 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.
- app4soft 5y ago> Nothing concrete has changed 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 https://fosshost.org/news/applications-temporarily-suspended
- immibis 5y agoGood, freenode is toxic