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Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by tomrod »

samip537 wrote: post #18
tomrod wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 any…

Not to be too probing, but have you reached out to an attorney?

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#32

Post by rvba »

samip537 wrote: post #13
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.

Do you know if the money wasnt stolen?

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#33

Post by svnpenn »

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.

> There's really no reason not to host on industry-standard free hosting, ie Github

GitHub will autoban accounts that post certain content. For example, I had an account for three years, with hundreds of stars across different repos. I pushed an M3U8 file containing content that GitHub didn't like for some reason, boom, account dead. No warning, not even an email with explanation.

Every single issue or comment that I ever posted across three years is now gone.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#34

Post by toomuchtodo »

choult wrote: post #26
samip537 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Looks like you're a UK CIC, which means you're regulated like a company, and your CEO/Director has statutory responsibilities. If he is failing to dispense his duties, he could be struck off as a company director in future. He incorporated a Limited company called Fosshosts Projects Ltd. last year, on his own. It'll be struck off in the next two months due to failure to file. He also has another company currently in…

Can anyone file a complaint for authorities to investigate? It sounds like embezzlement of organizational funds might be a possibility and it warrants whomever oversees non profits in the jurisdiction asking some questions.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#35

Post by samip537 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #29
samip537 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Also I cannot be bothered anymore What you’ve described sounds eerily like negligent mismanagement, possibly embezzlement. To avoid liability yourself, you may want to put a note into the authorities.

I'm not a director though, I'm just a poor volunteer that cannot do much.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#36

Post by andrewnyr »

mst wrote: post #28
wrycoder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

They pulled out of that pretty rapidly when they realised just what a disaster Andrew Lee was going to be. Took them a few days to realise their mistake though, so they still got to eat a bunch of reputational fallout anyway. (source: told them it was a terrible idea beforehand, got contacted back extremely sheepishly when they realised I'd been right)

Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit)

(source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#37

Post by samip537 »

tomrod wrote: post #31
samip537 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 any…

Not to be too probing, but have you reached out to an attorney?

Again I'm not a Director, so not my problem.

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

#38

Post by Kenji »

svnpenn wrote: post #33
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.

> There's really no reason not to host on industry-standard free hosting, ie Github GitHub will autoban accounts that post certain content. For example, I had an account for three years, with hundreds of stars across different repos. I pushed an M3U8 file containing content that GitHub didn't like for some reason, boom, account dead. No warning, not even an email with explanation. Every single issue or comment that I…

Isn't M3U8 simply a playlist? What could you possibly put in a playlist to warrant that?

Re: Fosshost Is Shutting Down

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Post by [deleted] »

rvba wrote: post #32
samip537 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you know if the money wasnt stolen?

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