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Personally, I’ve requested my information removed and you can do the same at https://preferences.perforce.com/

Now, a bit of personal speculation here. Last time I talked to Perforce Legal a few weeks ago, they were excited by our “community owned community space” model. The fact that the company has now taken this subversive and hostile action makes me think that they are about to announce or do something incredibly shitty and want to have iron control over the messaging.

This ought to be interesting.

We intend to keep this community alive and thriving, no matter what comes next from Perforce. If you'd like to follow me and others to the new #VoxPupuli community slack, just follow the invite link on the upper right corner of https://voxpupuli.org.

@sekka oh, updates there are aplenty! There's now a #FOSS fork of #Puppet just waiting for you to try out. https://voxpupuli.org/openvox/

@sekka and if you're interested in following along or reading more of the story, I've written quite a bit at https://overlookinfratech.com/blog/

@binford2k I am—thank you! I built Palm's WebOS backend infrastructure on a combination of puppet and my own agent/queuing system long, long ago, and while Puppet moved away from what I considered 'ideal', I'm interested to see if a fork would take it a better direction.

@sekka excellent! You're totally welcome to participate if you're interested.

@sekka and tangent I glanced at your profile and homepage -- Derby in SF? Rad. My partner retired from derby over pandemic. They guest skated practices in Oakland once or twice -- out in a warehouse by Merritt lake if I recall.

@binford2k Ah yes! Well, I'm on a bit of a derby hiatus due to work, but it's my jam, so to speak. ;> That sounds like you're talking about the BAD warehouse. BAD is good people!

@thisismissem @binford2k I think in this case it probably means “removed other admins”. They probably always had admins on the slack, and now they’re the only ones.

@lkanies @thisismissem They convinced Slack to do it. The community team was me as primary owner, 4 community owners, and about 8 admins with moderation privileges, both community and employees. I've been banned and everyone else has been removed from their roles.

@lkanies @thisismissem until today, nobody else at the company had "owner" privileges on the slack -- and I was only owner out of convenience.

@lkanies @thisismissem I'm shocked, actually.

Personally, it's pretty wild too. I've never been banned from a community and the Puppet community has only ever banned one real person before today.

@binford2k @thisismissem yeah, sounds like a massive and crazy shift. I’m sorry. I wish it were not happening, or that there were something I could do to help.

@lkanies @binford2k that sounds like a hostile takeover facilitated by Slack, it'd be worth reading their terms of service as well as privacy policy, because it sounds very risky to trust & safety if a slack organisation can suddenly be reassigned owners at Slack's whims — entirely ripe for social engineering.

They might argue that "Puppet Community" infringed on Puppet's trademarks, but even then, the response isn't simply to hand over control, but rather force a name change.