# IRC
Nick says: The current state of IRC is "a dumpster fire"
* Freenode taking over channels is an escalation
* We've taken our Matrix bridges down as an emergency measure
* We did get #fedora-pl back
* Libera Channels are getting set up
* We have cloaks!
* registering channels now needs to go through our group contacts (nb, spot, nirik)
* pagure repo for creating channels now
* plan to send out this announcement today:
Draft IRC announcement
https://hackmd.io/rgyR_WAETaqw7RTdR2j-DA?view
* Change channel topics to "This is no longer an official Fedora Project channel. See (commblog post URL) for more information."
* bots will come off of freenode. It'd be nice to have them telling people to move, but we really don't want to pick a fight, and freenode doesn't seem to want that, so there's no reason to be antagonistic
* Discussion about docs update. It's harder than just a search and replace, since pages like "my nick on freenode is mattdm" shouldn't.
* It's fine if freenode wants to run unofficial Fedora channels as long as they follow our trademark guidelines. It does need to not be confusing to users.
# Swag and Budget
* Planned new logo stuff: https://hackmd.io/awPM9FP3RoqT9TVwMCMNoQ?view
* Because most of our budget usually goes to Flock and to travel, we have a significant budget surplus.
* Suggestion of KLF-style burning of cash was shouted down. We should do something useful with this instead!
* Looking for new mentorship/internship programs, as GSOC has changed and isn't really a good match for Fedora anymore.
* suggestion: "season of KDE"
# Survey
Survey to go live on June 1st. (URL redacted because it's not ready to go live yet.)