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The recommendations of @report_press for the GNU Project seem uninformed to me.

1. GNU has always been an informal group: historical contributors stopped caring; newer contributors probably never did; it’s pretty much an empty shell.

2. The “big” GNU projects don’t recognize the authority of RMS in their governance.

3. Stallman’s “Kind Communication Guidelines” were denounced early on; Guix, GCC, glibc, etc. adopted a code of conduct, some way before that.

In 2019–2021, some of us attempted to create a “new GNU” (not mentioned in the report) to take the user empowerment torch *and* get rid of the founder’s syndrome and everything that the report highlights:
gnu.tools/

Support wasn’t there at the time, which is one of the factors that brought the effort to a halt.

gnu.toolsThe GNU Assembly — The GNU Assembly

Good news is other projects, orgs, and people are leading the movement these days: Framasoft, sr.ht and Forgejo/Codeberg, the folks behind the Fediverse, Tor, Spritely, FSFE, LQDN, and many more.

Most in this list consider autonomy beyond mere “software user freedom”, and I think that’s what we need.

That and making sure our passion/hobby/work doesn’t contribute to making the planet unlivable.

PuercoPop

@civodul Has considered moving of Savannah to sourcehut? One area that is in a good position to improve self-hosting/autonomy/descentralization is by reducing the LoE to self host your forge.

@civodul Curiass is a also a nice addition to the CI space.