Freenode -> libera.chat

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Tony Garnock-Jones

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May 20, 2021, 5:50:55 AM5/20/21
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Just a heads up,

With the recent damage to the Freenode IRC network, a new `#racket` has been founded on irc.libera.chat.

I've moved over there (nick `tonyg` still) and deleted my Freenode account (such as it was).

Cheers,
  Tony

Paulo Matos

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May 20, 2021, 7:29:21 AM5/20/21
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Is this to become the canonical IRC chat room for Racket?

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Tony Garnock-Jones

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May 20, 2021, 8:12:38 AM5/20/21
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On 5/20/21 1:28 PM, Paulo Matos wrote:
> Tony Garnock-Jones writes:
>> With the recent damage to the Freenode IRC network, a new `#racket` has
>> been founded on irc.libera.chat.
>
> Is this to become the canonical IRC chat room for Racket?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'd be in favour of moving off Freenode, myself.

What would need updating? Presumably little more than the following:

- https://racket-lang.org/irc-chat.html

? Is freenode mentioned anywhere else?

Cheers,
Tony

David Storrs

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May 20, 2021, 9:12:34 AM5/20/21
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What happened with Freenode?

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Tony Garnock-Jones

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May 20, 2021, 9:16:51 AM5/20/21
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210520002957/http://kline.sh/ is a good starting point.

Stephen De Gabrielle

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May 20, 2021, 3:30:48 PM5/20/21
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I don’t use IRC much/ever - but in the event the irc links need to change from freenode, links are present in the following places:

1. Homepage
3. Wiki - github
4. Reddit - mod access required

Current text: #racket IRC on freenode.net
Replacement text: #racket IRC on irc.libera.chat

(Thanks to Tony Garnock-Jones )


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Nathaniel W Griswold

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May 21, 2021, 11:51:00 AM5/21/21
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There is some strangeness with the freenode situation. Andrew Lee posted a pdf publicly and is talking about it right now on this thread if you haven't seen it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27234542

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Yury Bulka

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May 22, 2021, 5:39:15 AM5/22/21
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A more general remank on the governance of these channels (freenode /
libera, but also other non-IRC venues like Discord or Slack).

I think it is important that there is no ambiguisty as to whether the
Racket project has meaningful control over a given communication
channel.

For instance, if there are a Friendly Environment Policy violation or
other issue, there is (or isn't) a way to handle that.

Or simply when there is a need to establish a process for making a
qpolicy decision regarding a particular channel (like migration or
non-migration from freenode to libera).

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