| 27 Apr 2024 |
 Pol | I don't even know what to answer to you.... good luck to you too.... | 07:58:43 |
 Arian | Like. I am not surprised? Let's put it like that. | 07:59:25 |
| Arian | That you don't agree with the content. Find it lacking. Fine. But I don't understand why people are falling over the medium. Given DS was explicitly called out as problematic | 08:00:27 |
 [K]ate Temkin | Someone like Eelco has to wear two hats -- he has to both act as a foundation board member and as a founder of DetSys. He's repsonsible for keeping those two things separate. | 08:01:33 |
 vcunat | In reply to @piegames:matrix.org
Most of the time, we're an anarchy Yes, that's how it is, de facto. But a community like nixos.org can't work the same like a country, it's just different. | 08:01:52 |
| [K]ate Temkin | In reply to @ktemkin:katesiria.org
Someone like Eelco has to wear two hats -- he has to both act as a foundation board member and as a founder of DetSys. He's repsonsible for keeping those two things separate. When he's questioned as a community leader, and makes a post about the state of the community, doing it from his DetSys account is a bad look. If he wanted to respond to the state of things as DetSys, he shouldn't have tried to make it about the Nix Community. | 08:02:32 |
| [K]ate Temkin | The upset comes from the tone-deafness in the lack of separation. | 08:02:45 |
| [K]ate Temkin | Further, "if you want to talk about allegations of misconduct against me, come and do it in this space I control" isn't a great look, either. | 08:04:13 |
 @withoutwithin:matrix.org | Before that blog post, I was willing to work together to help create a better future for this project. After that blog post I can't bother to fucking care. | 08:11:33 |
 nat-418 | In reply to @withoutwithin:matrix.org
Before that blog post, I was willing to work together to help create a better future for this project. After that blog post I can't bother to fucking care. Your documentation work has helped me over the years. Thank you. Sad to see another great contributor alienated. | 08:13:19 |
| @withoutwithin:matrix.org | Thank you, I try ^^ | 08:14:07 |
| @withoutwithin:matrix.org | honestly once eelco's post dropped, the only reason i didn't delete my back catalogue of Nix/NixOS posts is that I am currently on a work trip and don't have access to a stable internet connection | 08:19:58 |
 @shalokshalom:kde.org | In reply to @piegames:matrix.org
Most of the time, we're an anarchy Yesterday I got told, we are (sadly) not an Anarchy 😅 | 08:28:48 |
| @shalokshalom:kde.org | In reply to @ktemkin:katesiria.org
Further, "if you want to talk about allegations of misconduct against me, come and do it in this space I control" isn't a great look, either. Agree. And 1:1 the same happened yesterday with the moderation team. | 08:29:35 |
 Maximilian Marx | In reply to @shalokshalom:kde.org
Agree. And 1:1 the same happened yesterday with the moderation team. It's really not “1:1” if people tell you “ we are not the moderation team, go talk to the moderation team if you want to discuss that topic” | 08:34:35 |
|  patka joined the room. | 08:37:15 |
 MangoIV | In reply to @withoutwithin:matrix.org
honestly once eelco's post dropped, the only reason i didn't delete my back catalogue of Nix/NixOS posts is that I am currently on a work trip and don't have access to a stable internet connection Please don’t 🥺 | 08:39:49 |
| Arian | I think people have very different views of the board. Personally I don't see them as our community leaders at all and I absolutely don't want them to be. It just doesn't fit NixOS. People have been trying to move it in the direction giving the board more agency and more voice over the years. But that was definitely not a push from eelco. He even pushed against that very explicitly from what I remember. He always saw it as a simple financial host for things. Not a voice or authoritative Shepard of the community as a whole. Just as a legal necessity so that we can pay bills. For a very long time it was just two board members rubber stamping financial report every year and handling invoices and that's it. There wasn't really anything public facing.
Heck. Until 2 years ago nixcon didn't have any financial host, structure or plan whatsoever. We didn't even know how to legally charge for tickets. It wasn't affiliated with the foundation at all. We all forgot the drama of misappropriated funds and unclear legal struggles from the nix cons from before 2023?
I think the problem is that we cant even agree on what the foundation is
supposed to be. And it really changed really quickly over the last year or so.
The people demanding more of the foundation in terms of support (coordinate funding from German government and European Union, be VAT host for nixcon) whilst it transforming from an extremely passive minimal foundation just for bookkeeping to a foundation from which people seem to demand a voice of authority is really the core of the whole struggle in my opinion.
central questions to me is: does the community want a foundation with a voice of authority and are visible representatives of our Community? All these open letter de facto show that it has been become this without even the board members realizing.
Otoh we seem to have board members (like Eelco) who clearly do not want to play that role.
I see a conflict there that needs to be resolved.
| 08:45:45 |
| Arian | But yeh. Defacto the board currently _is_ the face of the community. So it needs to resolve that internal conflict to give clarity and a way forward /2 cents | 08:46:40 |
| patka | Board choses not to block controversial sponser -> community problems -> ... ?
Whatever you like the job of the board to be you can't just ignore things | 08:50:13 |
| Arian | I think we can have a board that is purely a fiscal host. But then people need to accept that the board doesn't form opinions about NixCon. I think the new sponsorship policy is a way to solve that | 08:51:55 |
