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Re: [joerg@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

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On 6/16/21 9:11 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Forwaring for information...
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> -----
> 
> From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
> To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:44:28 +0200
> Subject: Debian Presence on Freenode
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> as you may know, Debians official IRC presence moved from Freenode to
> OFTC 15 years ago. Freenode still had a lively community of users
> remaining and the #debian channel was pretty active too.
> 
> As of today, this is no longer true. Debians IRC presence continues to
> be on OFTC and we have a nice growing community on the new Libera.Chat
> network, but anything on Freenode is neither official Debian supported
> nor endorsed. Quite the contrary, we urge anyone to drop their
> connections to freenode and join us in safer, more trustworthy places.
> Anything on Freenode that looks like Debian is to be considered
> unofficial, not supported and generally hostile.
> 
> For those not closely following the events that lead us to this: A
> hostile takeover with an entirely new set of staff, most of which we
> would not accept as members in Debian, happened. Over the last weeks
> they have acted irrationally taking over many other communities channels
> and groups. Today that new staff made it worse and decided to drop *all*
> nick and channel registrations, forcibly taking control over many of
> those "in their new part of freenode".
> 
> So, again: You are best of disconnecting from Freenode, if you haven't
> already, and join us on OFTC or Libera.
> 
> 
> For the new Libera.Chat network, we established a group registration and
> will also hand out Debian cloaks to members again. Please open an issue
> in our new Salsa project, if you want one:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-irc-team/libera-cloak
> 
> (Please be patient, we will group them together and try not overwhelming
> Libera Staff with too many small requests).
> 
> 
> Many thanks to the #debian ops team who have spent the last 3 weeks
> setting up channels on irc.libera.chat and walking on eggshells trying
> to siphon off users from freenode to safer places while avoiding getting
> k:lined by the new staff of freenode for doing so. Most of them aren't
> DDs but spend huge numbers of hours looking after our community for us.
> 

I am not DD or DM but do Debian user are eligible to claim this cloak?

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[joerg@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode] Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-06-16 03:20 +0200
  Re: [joerg@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode] Robbi Nespu <robbinespu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-16 05:20 +0200
    Re: [joerg@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode] Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-06-16 11:50 +0200

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