Upheaval at freenode

Several readers have alerted us to some serious problems at freenode, which runs an IRC network thatis popular in the free-software world. Evidently there has been a changeof control within the volunteer-run organization that has led to theresignations of multiple different volunteers, at least in part dueto a concern about the personal information of freenode users under the newmanagement. "Thefreenode resignation FAQ" has collected a bunch of information (andlinks to even more resignation letters) that may help shed some light on this mess.From the FAQ: "Freenode staff have stepped down. The network thatruns at freenode.org/net/com should now be assumed to be under control of amalicious party."In the meantime, many of the volunteers who resigned have formed Libera.Chat to continue the legacy offreenode. LWN will be keeping an eye on the situation, stay tuned ...