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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT nod.nz>]

As the situation has progressed over the past day, I'd like all Source
Mage developers to join the call of Atheme developers and community [0]
and discard all vote options containing freenode, meaning 3 and 5.

[0] https://atheme.github.io/atheme-open-letter/

On Mon, 24 May 2021 11:10:36 -0700
Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT nod.nz> wrote:

> Hello mages!
> 
> As you know, there's an active IRC migration going on due to an
> incident [0] on the Freenode network. After several discussions on
> #sourcemage it became clear that we want to take action on this.
> 
> Former Freenode staff founded a new IRC network called Libera Chat [1].
> 
> Many [2] big [3] and small [4] projects/communities [5] have already
> [6] migrated [7], and many [8] are in the process [9] of doing so.
> 
> Active members of Source Mage established #sourcemage on Libera, but
> after weighing some opinions and given Source Mage nature, I'd like to
> start a vote with some options we want to consider:
> 
> 1. Migrate to Libera Chat and deprecate all project-related channels on
>    Freenode.
> 2. Migrate to another FOSS-friendly network like OFTC.
> 3. Establish presence on Libera Chat, but keep Freenode-based channels
>    welcoming new users.
> 4. Create our own IRC infrastructure (basically a couple of servers and
>    IRC services). I can assure you this is doable, but I'm afraid it
>    will negatively impact our visibility.
> 5. Leave everything as is, meaning the only official presence of Source
>    Mage will be on Freenode.
> 
> Regardless of your choice, I'd like to ask everyone to take ethical
> component of this into account as well.
> 
> Things to remember [10]:
> 
> - GPG-sign your vote.
> - Send your vote *only* to projectlead AT sourcemage.org.
> - Vote starts at 11:10 PDT on May 24, 2021 and ends at 11:10 PDT on May
>   31, 2021.
> - All Lead Developers *must* vote.
> - General Developers *may* vote.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_conflict
> [1] https://libera.chat
> [2] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-05-19-liberachat/
> [3] https://www.perl.org/community.html
> [4] http://ferm.foo-projects.org
> [5] https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Switching-to-OFTC.html
> [6] 
> https://blog.centos.org/2021/05/centos-irc-channels-moving-to-irc-libera-chat/
> [7] https://www.devuan.org/os/community
> [8] https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/23/Moving-to-Libera.html
> [9] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=266573
> [10] https://sourcemage.org/Policy/Voting
> 
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> Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT nod.nz>


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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT nod.nz>

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