[SAC] [Hosting] OSUOSL IRC channels moving to irc.libera.chat

[Lance Albertson]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:52 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
wrote:

> Hi Lance,
>
> Em Wed, 19 May 2021 11:40:34 -0700
> Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> escreveu:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> > irc.libera.chat.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know otherwise we'll
> > see you on Libera Chat in #osuosl!
>
> FYI, it seems that, just like other IRC channels that were migrated:
>
>
> https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html
>         https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/freenode-takeover.html
>         https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse
>         https://lwn.net/Articles/857252/
>         https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1397433855817170949
>
> the channel was hijacked at freenode:
>
>         /msg chanserv INFO #osuosl
>
>         Information on #osuosl:
>         (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) Founder    :
> freenode-placeholder-account
>         (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) Registered : May 26 03:00:32 2021
> (17h 37m 8s ago)
>         (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) The #osuosl namespace is registered
> to the osuosl project
>         (22:37:41) ChanServ: (notice) *** End of Info ***
>
> Trying to join it redirects to:
>
>         # #osuosl
>

Unfortunately this is likely due to the fact we referenced Libera Chat in
our topic. I recommend all users to log off of Freenode if you can and move
to LIbera Chat for #osuosl.

-- 
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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