On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:52 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Lance, > > Em Wed, 19 May 2021 11:40:34 -0700 > Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> escreveu: > > > As many of you might have noticed, there has been some shifting around > with > > the Freenode IRC network in the past few days [1][2]. This has resulted > in > > a number of Freenode staff members resigning and starting a new IRC > network. > > > > Considering the future status of Freenode and given the track record of > the > > folks involved with the new network called Libera Chat [3], we've decided > > that we're moving #osuosl (and any other related channels) over to > > irc.libera.chat. > > > > We'll keep the Freenode channels alive for a little while longer but > intend > > to close them down within a month or so. For those interested, we are > > considering spinning up a Matrix server at some point to provide a more > > rich chat experience but for now we still use IRC for most of our > > communication with FOSS projects. > > > > If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know otherwise we'll > > see you on Libera Chat in #osuosl! > > FYI, it seems that, just like other IRC channels that were migrated: > > > https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html > https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/freenode-takeover.html > https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse > https://lwn.net/Articles/857252/ > https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1397433855817170949 > > the channel was hijacked at freenode: > > /msg chanserv INFO #osuosl > > Information on #osuosl: > (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) Founder : > freenode-placeholder-account > (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) Registered : May 26 03:00:32 2021 > (17h 37m 8s ago) > (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) The #osuosl namespace is registered > to the osuosl project > (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) *** End of Info *** > > Trying to join it redirects to: > > # #osuosl > Unfortunately this is likely due to the fact we referenced Libera Chat in our topic. I recommend all users to log off of Freenode if you can and move to LIbera Chat for #osuosl. -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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