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Hi folks, As some of you may be aware, the former head of Freenode ltd., the holding company for the Freenode IRC network, sold the organization to a third party und terms that hadn't been disclosed to staff. Most Freenode staff (e.g. [0], [1]) have resigned their posts and are urging communities that use Freenode for IRC to abandon the network. This has become even more urgent given recently reported routine abuses of power [2] and a rollback on Freenode policy banning hate speech. [3] Former Freenode staffers have founded a new IRC network, Libera.chat. A handful of us (thanks, jeff) have started to set up a new #code4lib channel there [4], although there's work to do to relocate zoia, the Code4lib IRC bot, and update the web pages [5]. As always, this is a reminder that we don't have good processes or policies for dealing with these sorts of changes in the Code4lib community. This was not a unilateral decision, but one informed by a number of other folks in IRC. cheers, Mark [0]: https://www.kline.sh/ [1]: https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt [2]: https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse [3]: https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513/files [4]: ircs://irc.libera.chat/code4lib [5]: https://github.com/code4lib/code4lib.github.io/pull/52 -- Mark A. Matienzo PO Box 80831 Unceded Duwamish Lands / Seattle, WA 98108 https://matienzo.org/