freenode: Group Management System

Group Management System

Group Management System (GMS) is the future way of managing your project/group on freenode.

GMS will replace the current, ineffective and time consuming, Group Registration process. In addition GMS will also function as a web-based dashboard tying in with Atheme Services allowing Group Contacts to easier manage their freenode namespace.

Some of the features which will be added to the GMS dashboard:

Channel/ACL Management
Namespace Cloaking
Channel/Namespace Logging -- Public, Private or Project-wide access
Ability to add RSS feeds and similar to project's GMS dashboard -- Pull blogs, commit stats, bugtracker etc,.

This list is far from exhaustive, and we would be delighted to hear your ideas and suggestions.

Getting Involved

The source code, as well as a wiki and bug tracker are available in trac. If you are interested in helping with, or just following, the GMS development, join us in #freenode-gms or drop an e-mail to code at freenode dot net

freenode Group Advisory Board

In order for freenode and the PDPC to provide the best possible service to the communities we serve, it is important for us to get feedback from the projects with which we have relationships.

We invite all current (and future) Group Contacts to join GAB, the freenode Group Advisory Board. While we hope to see many Group Contacts involved with GAB in an advisory capacity, GAB membership is of course optional.

freenode will seek the opinions of GAB members on any issue relating to services given to groups/projects, any addition to, or change of, group specific policy and other relevant issues.

If you are a current Group Contact and wish to get involved with GAB, please get in touch with christel or Martinp23 on IRC for details on how to subscribe to the freenode-groups mailing list and for an invite to the #freenode-gab channel.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!