Libreboot IRC has moved to the Libera Chat network
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IRC is the main way to contact the Libreboot project. `#libreboot` on Freenode
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IRC is the main way to contact the Libreboot project. `#libreboot` on Libera
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IRC.
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Webchat:
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<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreboot>
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<https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:6697/#libreboot>
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Freenode is one of the oldest IRC networks, used for Free Software projects.
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Find more about them here: <https://freenode.net/>
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Libera is one of the largest IRC networks, used for Free Software projects.
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Find more about them here: <https://libera.chat/>
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If you wish to connect using your preferred client (such as weechat or irssi),
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the connection info is as follows:
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* Server: `chat.freenode.net`
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* Server: `irc.libera.chat`
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* Channel: `#libreboot`
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* Port (TLS): `6697`
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* Port (non-TLS): `6667`
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We recommend that you use port `6697` with TLS encryption enabled.
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Here are some guides for various IRC clients:
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It is recommend that you use SASL for authentication. These pages on the Libera
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website tells you how:
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Weechat
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* WeeChat SASL guide: <https://libera.chat/guides/weechat>
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* Irssi SASL guide: <https://libera.chat/guides/irssi>
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* HexChat SASL guide: <https://libera.chat/guides/hexchat>
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<https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_quickstart.en.html>
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Irssi
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Couldn't find any guides on Freenode's website. Just use the above info.
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Here is a guide for configuring SASL:
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<https://freenode.net/kb/answer/irssi>
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Hexchat
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Couldn't find any guides on Freenode's website, but this is a useful guide for
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configuring SASL:
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<https://freenode.net/kb/answer/hexchat>
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Tor
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---
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You can use Tor, when connecting to Freenode. This may be beneficial, because
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Freenode is censored in some countries. Read this article:
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<https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat>
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In general, you should check the documentation provided by your IRC software.
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Social media
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@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ Merged a patch from coreboot into libreboot, enabling C3 and C4 power
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states to work correctly on GM45 laptops. This was a long-standing issue
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before Athur's contribution. Arthur also fixed VRAM size on i945 on
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GM45 systems, allowing maximum VRAM allocation for the onboard GPUs on
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these systems, another longstanding issue in libreboot. Contact **apvh**
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in the \#libreboot IRC channel. **Former libreboot project maintainer**.
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these systems, another longstanding issue in libreboot.
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Arthur also did work on the Libreboot build system, when he was a member of the
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project. He still works on coreboot, to this day, and Libreboot greatly
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@ -99,9 +98,7 @@ Damien Zammit
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Maintains the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L coreboot port, which is integrated
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in libreboot. Also works on other hardware for the benefit of the
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libreboot project. Contact **damo22** on the freenode IRC network. This
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person's website is [zammit.org](http://www.zammit.org/). **Former libreboot
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project maintainer.**
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libreboot project.
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Damien didn't work directly on Libreboot itself, but he worked heavily with
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Leah Rowe, integrating patches and new board ports into Libreboot, based on
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@ -113,9 +110,7 @@ Denis Carikli
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Based on the work done by Peter Stuge, Vladimir Serbineko and others in
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the coreboot project, got native graphics initialization to work on the
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ThinkPad X60, allowing it to be supported in libreboot. Denis gave
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a lot of advice and helped found the libreboot project. Contact
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**GNUtoo-irssi** in the \#libreboot IRC channel. Denis is also one of
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the founders of the [Replicant](http://replicant.us/) project.
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a lot of advice and helped found the libreboot project.
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Denis was a mentor to Leah Rowe in the early days, when she founded the
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Libreboot project. A lot of the decision decisions taken, especially with the
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@ -136,7 +131,6 @@ Jeroen Quint
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Contributed several fixes to the libreboot documentation, relating to
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installing Parabola with full disk encryption on libreboot systems.
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Contact **Jezza** in the \#libreboot IRC channel.
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Joshua Gay
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@ -181,8 +175,7 @@ Klemens Nanni
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Made many fixes and improvements to the GRUB configuration used in
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libreboot, and several tweaks to the build system. Contact **kl3** in
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the \#libreboot IRC channel.
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libreboot, and several tweaks to the build system.
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Leah Rowe initially helped Klemens get his project, autoboot, off the ground.
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Autoboot (website autoboot.org) is no longer online, but was a fork of Libreboot
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@ -200,7 +193,7 @@ Lisa Marie Maginnis
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Lisa is a former sysadmin at the Free Software Foundation. In the early days of
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the project, she provided Leah with a lot of technical advice. She initially
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created the Libreboot IRC channel on Freenode, when Leah did not know how to
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created Libreboot IRC channel, when Leah did not know how to
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use IRC, and also handed +F founder status to Leah for the channel. As an FSF
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sysadmin, it was Lisa's job to maintain a lot of the infrastructure used by
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Libreboot; at the time, mailing lists on the GNU Savannah website were used by
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@ -277,9 +270,7 @@ Paul Kocialkowski
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Ported the ARM (Rockchip RK3288 SoC) based *Chromebook* laptops to
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libreboot. Also one of the main [Replicant](http://www.replicant.us/)
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developers. Contact Paul on the libreboot IRC channel by the alias
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**paulk** or **paulk-<hostname>** (hostname is variable). **Former
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libreboot project maintainer.**
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developers.
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Paul Menzel
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Paul worked with Libreboot on
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this, sending patches to test periodically until the bug was fixed
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in coreboot, and then helped her integrate the fix in libreboot. Contact
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**PaulePanter** in the \#libreboot IRC channel.
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in coreboot, and then helped her integrate the fix in libreboot.
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Peter Stuge
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Swift Geek
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Contributed a patch for ich9gen to generate 16MiB descriptors. Contact
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**swiftgeek** in the IRC channel. **Former libreboot project maintainer.**
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Contributed a patch for ich9gen to generate 16MiB descriptors.
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After that, Swift Geek slowly became more involved until he became a full time
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developer. Swift Geeks contributions were never really in the form of *code*,
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Timothy maintains this code in coreboot,
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helping the project with the libreboot integration for it. This person's
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contact details are on the raptor site, or you can ping **tpearson** on
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the freenode IRC network.
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the Libera IRC network.
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Vladimir Serbinenko
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Ported many of the thinkpads supported in libreboot, to coreboot, and
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made many fixes in coreboot which benefited the libreboot project.
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Contact **phcoder** in the \#coreboot IRC channel on freenode.
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Vladimir wrote a lot of the original video initialization code used by various
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Intel platforms in Libreboot, when flashing it (now rewritten
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A system that hasn't been updated for quite a while will mean potentially more
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reading of previous posts through the website, and more maintenance work.
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The Arch forum can also be useful, if others have the same issue as you.
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The *Parabola* IRC channel ([**\#parabola**](https://webchat.freenode.net/) on freenode) can also help you.
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Due to this, and the volatile nature of Parabola/Arch, you should only
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update when you have at least a couple hours of spare time, in case of
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issues that need to be resolved. You should never update, for example,
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Once you have issued a Pull Request, the Libreboot maintainers will be notified
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via email. If you do not receive a fast enough response from the project, then
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you could also notify the project via the #libreboot channel on Freenode.
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you could also notify the project via the #libreboot channel on Libera Chat.
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Another way to submit patches is to email Leah Rowe directly:
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[leah@libreboot.org](mailto:leah@libreboot.org) is Leah's project email address.
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compatible with [specific computer models that use the Intel/AMD x86
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architecture](docs/hardware/). Libreboot works well with GNU+Linux and BSD
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operating systems. User support is available
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at [\#libreboot](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreboot) on Freenode
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IRC.
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at [\#libreboot](https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:6697/#libreboot)
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on Libera Chat network.
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releases.md
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libreboot20210522.md
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freenode.md
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website.md
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fsf-thank-you.md
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rms.md
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% Statement regarding Freenode/Libera IRC
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% Leah Rowe
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% 20 May 2021
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Introduction
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============
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Libreboot has long used Freenode for providing IRC chatrooms. Freenode is one
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of the most popular IRC networks, and one of the oldest. Recently, there has
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been some controversy about its leader, Andrew Lee, and some staff members have
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quit to form a new network named Libera. I want everyone to know: I'm completely
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neutral about the whole thing. I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
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I wish success to both Freenode *and* Libera.
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Libreboot now has a `#libreboot` IRC channel on both the Freenode *and* Libera
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networks. The Libera one is to be considered *unofficial*, but it *is* owned
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and operated by myself at the present time. I use the same `leah` nick on both
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networks. The only reason I'm there right now is to protect the names of my
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projects, and also to protect myself, so that someone cannot impersonate me or
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my projects.
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Plans for self-hosted IRC
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I've had a plan on the TODO for a very long time, to self-host an IRC server at
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`irc.libreboot.org`. I've concluded that the best decision for Libreboot would
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be for me to now press ahead with this plan. The channels on Freenode and
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Libera will remain open, but the self-hosted one will become the official
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channel.
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I have nothing against Freenode *or* Libera, but I would like to have more
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control over my infrastructure. My next target is Git; I will set up a Git
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repository, mailing list and (very likely) a SourceHut instance directly on
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`git.libreboot.org`. However, self-hosted Git is not currently a high priority
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due to the decentralized nature of Git.
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An IRC bot will be erected, bridging the 3 channels (freenode, libera and the
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one hosted on `irc.libreboot.org`) such that messages are relayed between them.
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This way, it won't matter which one you join. You can use any of the servers!
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I have also registered an OFTC channel. Right now, the future of IRC networks
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is rather precious, so I'm taking every precaution to protect the Libreboot in
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the future. It is my intention that all users on all `#libreboot` channels will
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be able to talk to each other. This *bridging* solution is one that I have
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concluded is best, to mitigate current political instabilities that exist. I
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do not wish for my projects to be involved in anyway. Libreboot is neutral!
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About the Freenode controversies
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I was offline for several days. I came online again on 20 May 2021, which was
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apparently a whole day after the events transpired. What I can gather is this:
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* Andrew Lee, who owns Freenode, wants to run things his way
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* Freenode staff were unhappy, because Andrew appointed new staff members
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instead
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* Those staffers who disagreed with Andrew's leadership have left and now run
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the Libera IRC network
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* Freenode will now have new staff members, under Andrew's guidance
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Basically, the most natural thing for a Free Software organization is currently
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in progress: someone is unhappy, so they made a fork, and the people left behind
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now get to run things however they like. The result? Now there are two
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organisations, who can both conduct themselves without tension or restraint.
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Is that a bad thing?
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Relationships, professional or otherwise, break down all the time. It's life.
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However, I do hope that peace can be restored, and that all sides can begin to
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cooperate once things calm down. *We* are all in the same fight, namely, the
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Free Software movement!
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Life moves on very quickly indeed. I'm here to tell you: Freenode is not the
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world, and neither is Libera. Neither will `irc.libreboot.org` be. Neither is
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OFTC. Neither is rizon. Neither is snoonet. Neither is EFnet. Neither is that
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weird IRC server you found one day on a forum. IRC is IRC. It can sometimes be
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a very crazy and chaotic place.
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Anyway, yeah. That's all for now. I really don't have much to say. The rest
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of this article will link to external resources, where you can learn more about
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the recent events. I only wanted to tell everyone how *I* feel, so that I can
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put this issue to rest. I believe that I have now done this!
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Learn more about recent chaos
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I was going to write more, but I don't think it's needed. Instead, you can
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simply refer to the following pages and make up your own mind. I'm only
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linking them here so that people have an idea as to what I'm talking about.
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I value my neutrality, so I will not make any statement either way about the
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contents of these articles. I haven't read them, precisely because I don't care
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but I know you will want to read them, if you're interested enough to read this
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article. So here they are!
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News articles
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Every link below will work with JavaScript turned off, but some of them are
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running non-free JavaScript if you have JavaScript turned on. I assume you
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already have LibreJS installed anyway, if you care about that.
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The *following* news articles are from media outlets and other people, not from
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the people in Freenode and Libera. however, those people also wrote articles
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and they are linked in the next sections on this page.
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First though, read these articles:
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* <https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover>
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* <http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/freenode-and-cancel-culture/>
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* <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Free-Software-Exits-Freenode>
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* <https://boingboing.net/2021/05/19/freenode-irc-staff-quit-after-new-owner-seizes-control.html>
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* <https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-staff-exodus-new-network/>
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* <https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resigns/>
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Andrew Lee's article
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Here is Andrew's article:
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<https://freenode.net/news/freenode-is-foss>
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I also spotted this article, which seems to be from Andrew aswell:
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<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e4075d2d48/raw/4f11b836a0705118733de5ba1b181b50c15201b2/freenode.txt>
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From Libera (former freenode) staff
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The following articles are from those individuals who recently resigned from
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their posts at Freenode, and moved over to Libera IRC instead.
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NOTE: for github-hosted links, I've linked to the `raw` pages, because these
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pages are plain text and therefore do not force you to run any non-free
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JavaScript code.
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* Archive link, because this staff member's article was on the index page, which
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will obviously change at some point:
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<http://web.archive.org/web/20210519235343/https://www.kline.sh/> (archive
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from 19 May 2021)
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* Fuchs' article: <https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt> - one could
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say that Freenode no longer has any fuchs to give!
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* Aaron Jone's article:
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<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491/raw/d210ebc21f8d967b8cce25a75fcdc721f8acfe9a/freenode-resign-letter.txt>
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* jess's article: <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jesopo/45a3e9cdbe517dc55e6058eb43b00ed9/raw/7972a595255560f23d9a61bb7c9f4e696dce1db4/00-freenode.txt>
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* Marco d'ltri's article: <https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461>
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* Ed Kellett's article: <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/edk0/478fb4351bc3ba458288d6878032669d/raw/5a2b712c2073b3d357c83a97d0f2678da290e5ec/resignation.md>
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* Emīls Piņķis's article <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pinkisemils/39d4ded8b1639b6f39dcab15618649f5/raw/89e3f6f1088176c03e623b01d70fe760e00811c3/resignation.md>
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* JonathanD82's article: <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/JonathanD82/6518b93708e0aaf4b8f92c8e7200816d/raw/70b20cfb8b599216e7702f013282eeb8c4288c24/gistfile1.txt>
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* mniip's article: <https://mniip.com/freenode.txt>
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* Svante Bengtson's article: <https://swantzter.se/freenode-resignation/>
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* This article is in French: <https://coevoet.fr/freenode.html>
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Ja osobiście wierze w wolność! Chce wolności dla *wszystkich*, nawet dla tych
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z którymi nie zgadzam się politycznie!
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(Notatka tłumacza: Leah nie kłamie. Na wiele tematów się nie zgadzamy a nadal
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jest osobą pełną szacunku i chętną debaty! Zapraszamy na kanał *freenode* IRC
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\#free-rms)
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Dyskryminacja bazowana na czyiś wierzeniach jest zawsze zła. Żadnych „ale”, ja
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chce aby moi *przeciwnicy polityczni* posiadali wolność, ponieważ:
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