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Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by samip537 »

dale_glass wrote: post #7
samip537 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are unable to pay for co-location costs, and that's why our servers will go offline as Thomas our CEO is unreacheable. He only has access to bank and thus to funds. Explaination of the DC thing at Github: https://github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/po... (Other posts can be read from there too.) Post from three months ago regarding state of affairs: https://github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/ma…

Sorry to hear that! What happened to the CEO? Has this been going on for long?

He has been unresponsive for the past 6 months, I have even tried calling and they decided to not answer so...

This has been going on internally for really long from when people started to resign in 2021/2022 due to management issues.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by samip537 »

rco8786 wrote: post #3

So curious about the mysterious backstory here. Considering "The Radix Project" appears to be doing the exact same thing that Fosshost is/was.

Yes, but Fosshost's bitfall is that one singular person is the only person with access to critical things, like the bank and thus is the only person able to pay our bills despite having money there or there should be.

The Radix Project is trying to learn from our mistakes and do them better so one doesn't face a similar issue due to a singular person having too much control.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by tomrod »

samip537 wrote: post #10
tdeck wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Thomas our CEO is unreacheable. He only has access to bank and thus to funds. Does your nonprofit have a treasurer? I thought it was a legal requirement for the treasurer to be a different person from the CEO. In that case the treasurer should be able to present something on official letterhead and gain access to the account.

Not to my knowledge, or we tried but they weren't given access by our CEO so there's that.

A bank can grant a treasurer access to resources if they are legally obligated to the funds.

Has the CEO absconded? This is crazy.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by choult »

samip537 wrote: post #11
dale_glass wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to hear that! What happened to the CEO? Has this been going on for long?

He has been unresponsive for the past 6 months, I have even tried calling and they decided to not answer so... This has been going on internally for really long from when people started to resign in 2021/2022 due to management issues.

He appears to be Head of Operations at a company called Ciptex, operating out of Manchester UK.

His most recent LinkedIn activity is from 2 months ago.

Perhaps try via their contact info?

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by wrycoder »

dale_glass wrote: post #4

There's a serious lack of useful information here. "Due to circumstances outside of the control of the Fosshost volunteers, we are now in a situation where we cannot guarantee our servers will stay online, and in fact expect them to go offline shortly." and in the link: "I'm expecting the BOS datacenter to go offline in the very near future." And in their Twitter profile, they seem to be a non-profit. I presume then…

There's your problem: "Fosshost Enters Into Long-Term Partnership With Freenode"

Last week this not-for-profit hosting provider announced they would be moving their IRC presence to Libera.Chat from Freenode. But the plot twist now is a new announcement made on Tuesday that they have entered into a long-term partnership with Freenode Limited and Andrew Lee.

They will be assisting Freenode and are said to be working on long-term plans around Freenode on the Fosshost network. Additionally, "In the near term, the two projects will partner to launch co/cross branded public and tenant-facing SaaS offerings, available BYOD or levering the combined network for DNS."[0]

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fosshost-Freenode

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by tdeck »

tomrod wrote: post #14
samip537 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to my knowledge, or we tried but they weren't given access by our CEO so there's that.

A bank can grant a treasurer access to resources if they are legally obligated to the funds. Has the CEO absconded? This is crazy.

This really highlights why rules for nonprofit governance exist. The CEO could have also run off with donor's money and nobody else in the organization would know.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by samip537 »

tomrod wrote: post #14
samip537 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to my knowledge, or we tried but they weren't given access by our CEO so there's that.

A bank can grant a treasurer access to resources if they are legally obligated to the funds. Has the CEO absconded? This is crazy.

I don't know if the whole thing was ever officially documented, so we don't really have a way to gain control to the bank account. There's two directors remaining, and no board to speak of as they have resigned.

All in all, we have tried our best to prevent this, but we cannot anymore.

I don't know what's the motive for the CEO to be unresponsive and I don't want to speculate anything, but it's not at all fun for anyone.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by samip537 »

choult wrote: post #15
samip537 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He has been unresponsive for the past 6 months, I have even tried calling and they decided to not answer so... This has been going on internally for really long from when people started to resign in 2021/2022 due to management issues.

He appears to be Head of Operations at a company called Ciptex, operating out of Manchester UK. His most recent LinkedIn activity is from 2 months ago. Perhaps try via their contact info?

Will not help, as they (our CEO) don't seem to want to answer to anything related to Fosshost. Also I cannot be bothered anymore.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by throwawaysleep »

nickelpro wrote: post #12

This is exactly no-name "FOSS" non-profits are a bad choice for community organizing. There's really no reason not to host on industry-standard free hosting, ie Github or Gitlab.

As an outsider, using FOSS in general for anything important seems like a bad choice unless there is a giant tech firm behind it like React with Meta. It is generally so fragile as it depends on so few people.
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