We can use our collective power to push others... Molly de Blanc, OSI PresidentOne general wish -- which I agreed with -- from Debian was to better share information about people... Matthias Kirschner, FSFE President
When Debian cabalists wanted to steal the domain debian-multimedia.org in 2014, they didn't go to a lawyer or the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The Debian Project Leader (DPL), Lucas Nussbaum, who is a professor at Université de Lorr...
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Debian Developers are shocked to hear about the recent death of
Dr Alex Blewitt in July 2022. Dr Blewitt was well known for his work around
Eclipse and as the Head of Cloud at the Santander bank.
The InfoQ web site, where he wrote many articles
...
On 17 June 2022, information was published for the first time
confirming the suicide of Frans Pop and linking it to the
history of cyberbullying Pop experienced in the Debian open
source project.
Two days later, on 19 June 2022, an open-source VR...
We present a new email today revealing that Steve McIntyre (sledge), formerly of ARM Ltd, was invited to remove the servers from the home of Frans Pop.
The email reveals that Debian was Pop's entire way of life. He lived with his servers doing f...
Looking through the Debian email archives, we quickly find a long list
of messages from Frans Pop expressing grievances with Ubuntu, Canonical
and Mark Shuttleworth.
Original link
To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian decides t...
The WIPO panel has decided to steal the debian.community domain name. The volunteers are preparing to execute contingency plans to preserve the site on a new domain.
We want to ask the question: was it worth the cost to Debian? The same materia...
Dr Preining has raised fresh concerns about the relationship between Martina Ferrari (anti-harassment team) and Enrico Zini (Debian Account Managers).
Credible organizations seek to establish a separation of powers between different decision maki...
Volunteers have scoured the debian-private (leaked) gossip network looking for further evidence about the Frans Pop "Debian Day" suicide.
Yet the evidence is not there. It is in broad daylight on the debian-project mailing list.
DateEvent
Earl...
WIPO has confirmed the members of the panel looking at the debian.community UDRP harassment. If you are aware that any of these panelists has a conflict of interest or bias in the case please contact us immediately.
We published our response to ...
When Gaëtan Mootoo, an extraordinarily gifted Amnesty International employee, decided to take his own life, he did it in his workplace, the Amnesty office in Paris.
Debian doesn't have a workplace. Nonetheless, when Frans Pop chose to take his...
There have been two headline suicides in Debian: the suicide of the founder, Ian Murdock and the Frans Pop suicide that appears to have been planned for the anniversary of Debian's founding, Debian Day.
The significance of Frans' actions can no...
Trigger warning: this page talks about suicide and nothing else
Debian announced the death of Frans Pop in 2010.
There were numerous comments on the debian-private (leaked) gossip network.
We want to focus on one feature of the death. Was it D...
We publish a fresh email from Paul Tagliamonte, the White House staff member who encouraged fellow Debianists to defame Dr Appelbaum. This email is the strongest yet, while most volunteers wanted to remain neutral, Tagliamonte was calling for the...
Thanks to the WIPO legal dossier, we now have more evidence of the source of harassment in Debian.
We previously reported on a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) intern from Bhopal, India, who was not paid the full stipend.
It raises numerous question...
Volunteers found this little gem in the debian-private (leaked) gossip network
Subject: New #debian-private key
From: Guilherme de S. Pastore
Organization: Debian
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org
Hi all,
as a result of some people attempti...
The volunteer response to the Debian trademark case at WIPO contains some stunning revelations. We will serialize them over the next couple of weeks. One of the most fascinating revelations is that Debian went broke in 1998. Bruce Perens promi...
Debian Community News is sharing our response to the WIPO UDRP
harassment from Jonathan Cohen, Charles Fussell.
The response contains a number of confidential emails, including one
from the missing Arjen Kamphuis and we hoped
to send it directly ...
In 2014, Alyssa Funk, a 19 year old straight-A student took the family gun and shot herself.
Alyssa had chosen to do a casting couch video using the name Stella Ann. Her career starting and finishing on the same couch where Belle Knox (Miriam We...
The latest phase of the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp saga is a defamation
trial in the United States. Heard falsely accused Depp of pushing his
ex-girlfriend down the stairs. The ex-girlfriend, Kate Moss, joined
the trial by video link
to tell the w...
The bundle of libel created by the toxic lawyer Jonathan Cohen at great cost to Debian volunteers finishes with the oath:
The Complainants certify that the information contained in this Complaint is to the
best of the Complainants’ knowledge comp...
We share another snippet of the Debian WIPO conspiracy today. The complaint singles out the blog post Coroner's Report: Lucy Wayland & Debian Abuse Culture and tries to repudiate it with the comments:
alleging that Debian’s Molly de Blanc’s and ...
Most of the attention on DebConf19 has been about the intern scandals.
Behind the scenes, the anti-harassment gulag organized a Birds of a Feather (BoF) meeting to talk about their sinister work. There is a video available. This was not long af...
Debian gangsters promise to continue their vendetta despite missing WIPO's deadline.
We have all seen those horrendously long discussion threads that take place in Debian from time to time. We wonder if the Debian trademark team, Brian Gupta and...
According to the DebConf travel funding rules, volunteers need to buy their own tickets and then wait for a reimbursement to come later.
For DebConf18 (Taiwan) and DebConf19 (Brazil), some of the Albanian women asked to have the tickets purchased...
WIPO has finally responded to the Debian vendetta, informing the overpaid lawyers at Charles Fussell (parody site) that their claim didn't even reach first base.
We believe but can't prove that the lawyers have now gone back to the Debian leader,...
When the Formula One grand prix went to Hungary, they faced a big problem: prostitution was illegal. This is a challenge for events with a predominantly male audience. Hungary changed their laws and even constructed Erotik Camping zones for dive...
Debian appears to be wasting money on a trademark case that is doomed to legal failure. One member of the trademark team, Felix Lechner, has resigned in disgust. Therefore, who is advancing this vendetta?
The remaining two members of the trad...
Is there dating in Debian? Meike Reichle admits she met her husband, Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl, through Debian.
Reichle was part of the Debian Press Team, the propaganda hit squad that has been spreading rumors about people for years....
On 19 April the Debian Community News Team published more evidence of the proximity of Israeli intelligence to Debian.
Less than a week later and a greedy lawyer, Jonathan Cohen, a partner at Charles Fussell in London, has started formally harass...
We recently had discussions about Debian making an anti-Russian statement.
How can Debian Developers be credible about Ukraine if we don't support Palestine? DebConf decided to go to Israel, it has been pushed back until 2024 due to the pandemic...
When we heard the news about the Bucha massacre this week, civilians bound with cable ties, executed and dumped in mass graves, we couldn't help thinking about the sinister tactics Debian uses to silence dissent.
On 5 September 2014, Don Armstron...
DebConf22 call for papers is now open.
Accommodation plans have been published. We are alarmed to see that segregation will be in force. It makes poor doors look respectable.
Ninety-eight percent (98%) of Debian Developers are male. These are...
The Free Software Fellowship team has recently blogged about Fedora's relationship with Iran and Russia. Now it is our turn in the Debian Community News Team to look at Debian with the explosive leak of 185 emails from debian-private about the ar...
As we approach the third anniversary of Lucy Wayland (aardvark)'s death, we want to consider the possibility that Debian contributed to the death. Let us look at the series of events and put the Coroner's report in the correct place in the time...
We previously looked at the vast amounts of money spent on travel for Albanian women to come to DebConf19 in Curitiba and many other events.
Before DebConf19, Debian tried to organize a warm-up event, MiniDebConf Curitiba in the location that wou...
Since the arrest, charging, trial and prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, many people are holding their breath waiting for a jury to decide whether to make a conviction. Just as many people are holding their breath waiting to see if a juror fails a...
Photos contributed by Aigars Mahinovs and Andis Rado.
We recently documented the series of encounters linking Chris Lamb with an Albanian woman who received travel grants and a $6,000 Outreachy internship from Debian.
Other women may want to app...
The trailer is safe to watch at work. The movie definitely isn't.
Within the trailer lasting barely two minutes, we encounter ominous references to the central themes of the DebConf19 Outreachy tindernship scandal: a woman, her first internship ...
Non-developing Debian Developer Donald Norwood recently spammed a whole bunch of people with accusations about defamation and third party web sites.
Norwood has lied, he blames an Australian developer, Daniel Pocock, for the sites. We show the s...
Electricité de France (EDF) is one of the world's largest nuclear companies. Did you know they employ a toxic woman?
The Debian Community News Team releases another exclusive story today. (Related: list of people shamed/expelled by Debian).
Tox...
The Free Software Fellowship recently published evidence of the Albanian gangmaster and Mozilla Tech Speaker recruiting and/or grooming teenage girls in a hackerspace.
In 2019, when Dr Richard Stallman commented privately on the Epstein affair ...
Many Debian users received spam from Donald Norwood through the debian-news email list and social media networks this week.
Norwood has attacked a developer with over 20 years experience.
Looking at Norwood's own profile, we see that he has ...
Photos contributed by Aigars Mahinovs.
We found the six Albanian/Kosovan women who received GSoC & Outreachy money, tickets to DebConf and many other events following the former leader around Europe.
These are snapshots of their Github activity ...
Debian has been participating in the Outreachy internships, originally called Outreach Program for Women, since 2013 (that is 8 years).
In 8 years, only one Outreachy, Ulrike has become a Debian Developer. And she quit.
Google Summer of Code ...
There has recently been news about pranksters in the UK using the online debt recovery form to successfully obtain a default judgment against Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson's address is well known, he lives at 10 Downing Street.
The claim...
Chris Lamb circulated rumours about other volunteers.
The facts suggest that Lamb himself was one of the culprits. There is no evidence of romantic relationships. The concern here is that travel grants from the leader have given some candidates...
Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader (Red Hat, IBM) has recently written about calling Fedora a Community, where the volunters/developers are "Project Members". Jonathan Carter has been sending emails declaring Debian Developers are "Project...
In 2016, Jaminy Prabaharan appeared on Debian's list of GSoC students. She does not appear on the list of students who passed.
Here is a quote from Jaminy on 7 September 2016:
Failing and learning is the best experience ever
She couldn't be ...
In our last blog, we looked at the Ubuntu/Canonical employee Lucas Kanashiro coming into Debian as a mentor and having a relationship with an intern. Out of fairness, we need to look at other relationships too.
Back in 2016, Nicolas Dandrimont a...
Chris Lamb bastardized the Debian keyring in September 2018. All disclosures of private and personal information are a consequence of Lamb's rudeness to volunteers.
At least once every week we are reminded about the false accusations against one...
Many people will hope Molly de Blanc's departure from GNOME Foundation is the end of the story. It is only the beginning.
Here are the facts:
de Blanc's old boss was the Executive Director of the FSF, John Sullivan. Sullivan is a Debian Develo...
Debian Project Leader (DPL) Jonathan Carter has made the following comments this week:
Not true, if someone identifies with fascist doctrine, even if they keep those views off of the project channels, then they are not welcome here, no matter whe...
On 24 March 2021, Canonical/Ubuntu employee Steve Langasek formally requested support for a vote to publicly defame Dr Richard Stallman.
The Debian Project Secretary, Kurt Roeckx went about processing the request as if nothing was wrong. He has...
Back in 2019, somebody who appears to be a Debian Developer leaked the first couple of years of debian-private, emails from 1996 and 1997. Traces of the leak linger in the debian-project archives. Replicas are hosted around the Internet, click f...
Here we leak the next evidence of Paul Tagliamonte's backstabbing while he was working for a White House team in the Pentagon. Notice the email is sent at 8:53am on a Friday morning, it appears to be sent during office hours.
Please consider the...
If you are going to crucify somebody, why not do it on Good Friday? In the Christian world, Good Friday is the day we commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus.
According to the the Passion of Jesus, Judas betrayed Jesus on Holy Thursday in the week...
Many people noticed that blogs seeking a level-headed approach to concerns around FSF were censored from Planet Fedora again this week. Fedora volunteers who want to stay on top of these things may want to consider following WeMakeFedora.org. Th...
One of the seconders of the motion to spread defamation about a volunteer with decades of service, Dr Richard Stallman (RMS), is Paul Tagliamonte.
From 2015 to 2019, Tagliamonte was an employee at the White House in the US Digital Service. In p...
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Molly de Blanc has recently started a vile "petition" asking people to harass a volunteer, Richard Stallman.
That is not a petition. As the vendetta is all about one person, it is cyberbullying. ...
The Fellowship has recently blogged about FSFE President Matthias Kirschner misusing screengrabs from video calls with interns.
We hate to see interns names and photos brought into these disputes. The Debian Project Leader has been asked to cea...
On 8 March 2020, International Women's Day, somebody forged Mark Shuttleworth's email address to distribute or leak the email below.
The Debian Project Leader, Sam Hartman, accused another volunteer of distributing it. Eleven months have passed...
With the Special Boat Service (SBS), cousins of the SAS, storming a ship in the English channel, we feel it is a good time to finally have a look at another DAM blackmailer and Debian's potential connections to GCHQ.
Image synthesized with source...
This week, Techrights noticed the vast increase in Debian travel funding for diversity in 2019.
We hear that most of this money went to bring women from Kosovo and Albania to DebConf in Brazil. Most of these women were introduced to Debian by a ...
This blog follows up on the earlier report about Daniel Lange, who was accused of aggression but accepted into Debian anyway at almost the same time Jacob Appelbaum was expelled.
We quote the following two emails from the debian-private (leaked) ...
In April 2020, we notice that Steve Greenland was removed from the Debian keyring.
We went looking for details. Was he expelled, was it political? Was it based on falsified evidence, the way Debian Account Manager Enrico Zini falsified harassm...
We can only wonder, why was this posted to the debian-private (leaked) gossip network and not to LWN?
Subject: [Daniel Lange] Do some public considerations for newmaint application, good way to proceed?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:42:26 -0400
From...
2022-01-25 UPDATE: coronor's report is now available.
Here is a diagram to help understand the blackmail/shaming period when Lucy Wayland passed away.
Debian's blackmailing of Daniel Baumann had finished in August 2018 and Debian began blackmai...
DebConf20 was due to take place in Haifa, Israel this year (a separate controversy about Debian censoring Palestine) but it was moved online due to the pandemic.
Therefore, what happens to all the sponsorship money collected in 2020? Let's lo...
A Debian Developer has released emails showing that Enrico Zini, one of the Debian Account Managers, had a significant role to play in exaggerating claims against another volunteer, Jacob Appelbaum.
The explosive emails reveal that Zini was secre...
DebConf going online in 2020 doesn't mean we can't have the full experience. Yesterday, we began with the foreplay of plotting defamation with Erinn Clark and today we move on to a full-blown DebConf orgy of hypocrisy.
Lunar (Jérémy Bobbio) is o...
In criminology research, between thirty and fifty percent of women surveyed typically indicated they have experienced sexual violence or rape.
Experience of the authorities also tells us that on average, over ninety percent of crime reports are t...
One of the revelations from the expulsion of Dr Norbert Preining is the role of Laura Arjona Reina (larjona) sending him nasty emails a few days before Christmas.
Drawing attention to an email chain like this inevitably encourages other vict...
There have been many observations about the particularly sinister blackmailing of volunteers in Debian. It is notable that this took place at the time that a volunteer died, when another volunteer had lost a family member and by an even more biza...
Debian Community News and the Uncensored Debian Planet site (follow the RSS feed if you want all sides of the story) have cast a new light on uncomfortable truths about the way free software is produced.
As people dig deeper, they are surprised t...
There has recently been news about money from Google and Microsoft corrupting the FSFE. Has it also touched Debian?
In May 2006, there was a discussion on debian-project asking Debian Developers not to redirect their debian-private emails into G...
Editor's note: we regret that Debian has taken this direction. The Debian Social Contract, point 3, calls upon us to be transparent about the way Debian treats volunteers.
On 8 March 2013, Joerg Jaspert started an experiment in shaming and contr...
Donald Trump's attack on a reporter was remarkably similar to Debian Project Leader (DPL) Sam Hartman's recent attacks on volunteers:
Trump has announced he will not contest the 2020 election.
Inspired by Sam Hartman's Non-Platform email,...
Free software organizations are making more and more noise about their Codes of Conduct these days.
Do we really understand what they are about?
Debian has become a case in point.
The Debian Project Leader and sidekicks have spent almost two ye...
One of the law suits to define the age of social media is Herrick v. Grindr LLC. Herrick's ex-boyfriend has created fake profiles impersonating Herrick, inviting arbitrary strangers to visit Herrick at his workplace. The case has been escalated ...
If you monitor the Twitter feed of Donald Trump, you will get a lot of information about how he runs the USA but can you trust it? A range of independent news outlets in Washington and the rest of the world provide a more diverse range of opinion...
This is the question nobody is allowed to ask:
Imagine you are DPL. In January, an experienced and respected volunteer writes:
You can use my name temporarily while looking for other people to help you in this role... However, I can't officiall...
Many people wondered what all the fuss has been about banning and censoring people from Debian in recent years. The answer? Dirty politics. Nominations for Debian Project Leader were announced on Saturday, 7 March and the next day, outgoing lea...
In July 2018, a volunteer told the Debian Project Leader, Chris Lamb that extraordinary personal circumstances impacted his voluntary role in Debian that year.
A few months later, he publicly asked Lamb why there was gossip and Lamb wrote in a pu...
In Sam Hartman's latest attack on a volunteer, he makes a series of arguments intended to lead us to the conclusion that a single Debian Developer woke up one day and decided to pursue a new career as an Internet troll.
Hartman's claim is bizarr...
There was a recent discussion on debian-project about lawsuits involving Debian. Pierre-Elliott Bécue has written:
But Debian having no legal existence, it can't file
Personally, we don't want to encourage anybody to make an un-necessary lawsui...
We've recently seen hard evidence of Debian's harassment culture, proof that it comes down from above and methods used to silence people who speak up.
On Sunday, a Debian Developer took some time out of his weekend and created a new package. Ins...
Harassment is a serious topic and in many civilized places, it is also a crime.
Sam Hartman, Debian Project Leader (DPL), has recently referred to a Campaign of Harassment, suggesting that one mysterious person is driving him mad. His comments r...
Sunday, March 8 is International Women's Day. The challenges that women face in their professional lives are one of the core themes of the day.
In computer science education, approximately thirty percent of students are female. This drops to te...
Many free, open source software organizations have seen increased tension in the last few years due to cult-like phenomena. Volunteers have complained about the oppressive impact of monocultures and groupthink. The Debian Community News team is ...
There has been increased discussion recently about the purpose of Debian Community News. The ultimate goal is to improve Debian, both the operating system and the community, through accurate, independent feedback about leadership decisions.
As ...
A number of people in the Debian world have been spreading false accusations of harassment and abuse.
These accusations are never accompanied by any evidence.
Harassment and abuse have a very clear meaning to most people, for example, sexual abu...
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A number of differences of opinion have emerged in the Debian Community recently.
People have expressed concern about blogs silently being removed from Planet...
Earlier this year, Debian Community News published a step-by-step guide explaining how Debian blackmails volunteers.
Rather than seeking reform, Debian's outgoing leader, Sam Hartman, has decided to double-down on the blackmail strategy.
On 12...
There has recently been a lot of attention on the publication of the first years of debian-private at Christmas 2019.
There have been many other disclosures in recent times too, for example, the revelations about Cryptie/Amandine Jambert, a CNIL ...
There have been renewed discussions about aggression, violence and suicide messages in Debian recently.
In 2018, the Debian Project Leader Chris Lamb started denouncing volunteers. One consequence of Lamb's aggression is that the volunteers have...