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There's your problem: "Fosshost Enters Into Long-Term Partnership With Freenode" Last week this not-for-profit hosting provider announced they would be moving

There's your problem: "Fosshost Enters Into Long-Term Partnership With Freenode" Last week this not-for-profit hosting provider announced they would be moving their IRC presence to Libera.Chat from Freenode. But the plot twist now is a new announcement made on Tuesday that they have entered into a long-term partnership with Freenode Limited and Andrew Lee. They will be assisting Freenode and are said to be working on long-term plans around Freenode on the Fosshost network. Additionally, "In the near term, the two projects will partner to launch co/cross branded public and tenant-facing SaaS offerings, available BYOD or levering the combined network for DNS."[0] [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fosshost-Freenode https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fosshost-Freenode

mst 4y ago
They pulled out of that pretty rapidly when they realised just what a disaster Andrew Lee was going to be. Took them a few days to realise their mistake though, so they still got to eat a bunch of reputational fallout anyway. (source: told them it was a terrible idea beforehand, got contacted back extremely sheepishly when they realised I'd been right)
- andrewnyr 4y ago
  Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit) (source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)
  - nszceta 4y ago
    Who gave money to the directors running Fosshost?
  - mst 4y ago
    No implication that there wasn't also pushback internally was intended, my apologies for the fact that now I look at it again, my comment can clearly be read that way. I kept to a generic 'they' because the communications in question were private so while I'm comfortable revealing they existed I felt keeping the description deliberately vague was only fair.

mst 4y ago

They pulled out of that pretty rapidly when they realised just what a disaster Andrew Lee was going to be. Took them a few days to realise their mistake though, so they still got to eat a bunch of reputational fallout anyway. (source: told them it was a terrible idea beforehand, got contacted back extremely sheepishly when they realised I'd been right)

andrewnyr 4y ago
Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit) (source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)
- nszceta 4y ago
  Who gave money to the directors running Fosshost?
- mst 4y ago
  No implication that there wasn't also pushback internally was intended, my apologies for the fact that now I look at it again, my comment can clearly be read that way. I kept to a generic 'they' because the communications in question were private so while I'm comfortable revealing they existed I felt keeping the description deliberately vague was only fair.