<div dir="ltr">Sorry for the late notice. I was offline traveling all of yesterday.<div><br></div><div>We will be meeting today (Friday, 3 August) at 20UTC [1] (4PM in Boston) on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a> #sugar-meeting (See [2]).</div><div><br></div><div>Note that there has been a SPAM issue on Freenode of late (See the email from James I have forwarded below). We should discuss potential solutions.</div><div><br></div><div>Also on the agenda:</div><div><br></div><div>* GSoC update</div><div>* Music Blocks in Japan</div><div>* Nigeria workshop plans</div><div>* Marketing news letter</div><div>* Packaging discussion</div><div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/">https://webchat.freenode.net/</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">James Cameron</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:09 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Systems] Messages on sugar-meeting<br>To: Chihurumnaya Ibiam <<a href="mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya@gmail.com">ibiamchihurumnaya@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: systems <<a href="mailto:systems@lists.sugarlabs.org">systems@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:aperez@alexperez.com">aperez@alexperez.com</a>><br></div><br><br>Not much can be done; it is automatic, and outside our control.<br>
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We are using <a href="http://freenode.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">freenode.net</a>'s community services. freenode have a news<br>
item about the issue; <a href="http://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack</a><br>
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My personal response; I'm not a channel operator for #sugar or<br>
#sugar-meeting; if I were, I'd set the channels to +r but this will<br>
require everyone to register with <a href="http://freenode.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">freenode.net</a> before speaking. It is<br>
easier to ignore the spam. Setting /umode +R will block private<br>
spam. Make sure GSoC students you mentor are aware of the situation.<br>
<br>
To help you understand the history of the attack, and the very angry<br>
and hurt people involved on both sides, here's a copy and paste from the<br>
#<a href="http://linux.conf.au" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">linux.conf.au</a> channel; it is spoken with sarcasm in oz style;<br>
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<aj> anyone know what all the freenode spam is actually about?<br>
<evil_steve> yeah, apparently a 'master hacker' went into a ham radio channel to troll people, found it to apparently be an illicit den of pedophila, started trolling, got kickbanned, came back with friends, they got klined, and then when they complained to freenode staffers about it and the staffers did nothing, decided the entire network was a hotbed of illicit activity, and fired up their botnet<br>
<aj> so if i ignore the "found it to apparently be an illicit den of pedophilia" part, that all sounds like a pretty plausible storm in a teacup<br>
<evil_steve> yes<br>
<benno> A bunch of Internet Garbage Humans are trying to do to Freenode what a similar bunch of Internet Garbage Humans did to James Gunn.<br>
...<br>
<eyeoh> aj: <a href="https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack</a><br>
<eyeoh> see this too if you really want the full run-down - follow the reddit references too. It's been going on for weeks now. <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/linux-exherbo-developer-debunked/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydot.com/debug/linux-exherbo-developer-debunked/</a><br>
<eyeoh> even some hn people thought it was real because it didn't look like obvious spam at the time: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17543632" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17543632</a><br>
<eyeoh> unfortunately, GPG and WOT hasn't really taken off.<br>
<eyeoh> irc users getting pm spam might also want to /umode +R or /mode <username> +R<br>
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-- <br>
James Cameron<br>
<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
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