<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" 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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[1] </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://kline.sh">https://kline.sh</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" 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/">https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" 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/">https://libera.chat/</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance Albertson</font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon State University | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Lab </span></div></div></div></div></div>