Hello, As some of you are aware of, last week, the Freenode IRC network was subjected to a forceful change of its operational control. The history and details of the change are deeply political in nature and very much off-topic for our lists, and I really do not wish this event to be discussed here; there is plenty of information and discussion to be had in other corners of the Internet. The fact remains, however, that Freenode is no longer a safe IRC network for free and open source software communities. As of now, the #s6 channel (and its associated off-topic channel) has moved to the OFTC network: https://www.oftc.net/ The skarnet.org documentation has been updated accordingly. Please update your pointers, and if you're currently hanging on Freenode, please come to OFTC instead. The #s6 channel on Freenode will cease to be maintained, except for a /topic pointing to the new hosting network. At some point, it will be moderated, i.e. you will not be able to write in it anymore. In the same way, there will be an empty #s6 channel on the libera.chat network, pointing to the OFTC network as well. I know that some of you would have preferred to move to libera.chat, the "official" successor of freenode, instead of OFTC. It was not an easy choice to make, and no matter the decision, some people would have ended up unhappy anyway. Please fight the undoubtedly overwhelming urge to explain why the decision was wrong and the other one would have been better; instead, feel free to address all complaints to Andrew Lee, Crown Prince of Korea and originator of all this shitshow. Thank you. I hope to meet you on the other side. -- Laurent
