The People

The freen­ode project is run en­tire­ly by vol­un­teers. All of the cur­rent vol­un­teers came to the project through in­volve­ment with one or more of the projects that use freen­ode.

The or­gan­i­sa­tion­al struc­ture of the freen­ode project can be split rough­ly into three ar­eas, each with a des­ig­nat­ed lead.

• klo­eri is head of in­fra­struc­ture, in charge of mak­ing sure that the net­work con­tin­ues to run in a us­able fash­ion and that we have the right hard­ware and serv­er plat­forms in place to pro­vide the ser­vices we want.
• spb is head of de­vel­op­ment, in charge of the soft­ware plat­forms that we use to run the net­work.
• chris­tel is head of staffing, projects and com­mu­ni­ties and also the over­all project lead in charge of the oth­er heads.

To­geth­er, these heads take any de­ci­sions that af­fect the fu­ture di­rec­tion of freen­ode. The project also ben­e­fits great­ly from the on­go­ing sup­port and en­thu­si­asm from its con­trib­u­tors and vol­un­teers, both of­fi­cial and un­of­fi­cial, and is grate­ful for the time and ef­forts in­vest­ed in the project by past and present vol­un­teers.

The freen­ode project keeps a keen eye out for in­di­vid­u­als who may pro­vide a good fit to the ex­ist­ing vol­un­teer base and we pe­ri­od­i­cal­ly re­cruit ex­ist­ing par­tic­i­pants who have made a strong pos­i­tive im­pres­sion and we be­lieve would be a good fit on the staff team.

If you are look­ing for freen­ode vol­un­teers on the freen­ode net­work you can find us in #freen­ode where we are al­ways hap­py to have a chat or you can use /stats p to find vol­un­teers that are im­me­di­ate­ly avail­able.