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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>See below about Freenode IRC having been taken over (or
considered as such by most Freenode admins), which affects our
existing #gdal channel.</p>
<p>What should we do:<br>
</p>
<p>- give up with IRC at all, and just use the Slack channel ? Would
make things more simple<br>
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<p>- migrate to Libera Chat ?</p>
<p>- something else ?</p>
<p>Even<br>
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<td>Lance Albertson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lance@osuosl.org"><lance@osuosl.org></a></td>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">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 </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">irc.libera.chat.</span></div>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you have
any questions or concerns, please let us know otherwise we'll
see you on Libera Chat in #osuosl!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks-</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[1] </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a
href="https://kline.sh" moz-do-not-send="true">https://kline.sh</a></span></div>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[2] </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a
href="https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/</a></span></div>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[3] </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a
href="https://libera.chat/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://libera.chat/</a></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance
Albertson</font>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon
State University | </span><span
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