Monthly General Meeting, January 2026

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Propositions and Motions

Do we want to turn on direct Stripe-based donations?

This meeting discussed whether Libera Chat should be able to accept direct donations through Stripe in addition to Liberapay. This has the advantage of giving us more reliable income data, better support for one-time donations, and a more streamlined path to donation for new donors. This would require a minor privacy policy update in order to allow us to retain donor information as required by Swedish law, which would be retained by Stripe on our behalf.

This proposition passed unanimously.

Election platform decision

As participation in asynchronous elections is now required for continued membership in the Libera Chat organisation, this meeting was tasked with resolving how best to resolve an issue with the election system Libera Chat had used in previous years. The platform does not support disclosure of who voted in a particular election without also disclosing the exact votes cast, which was agreed to be undesirable. The meeting discussed either making a separate “roll-call” poll with ballot disclosure, or exploring an alternative voting platform that does not support ranked-choice ballots.

The meeting ultimately agreed that adding a roll-call poll to the previous platform was the best way forward.

Privacy policy amendment

This meeting proposed amending the privacy policy in order to contain explicit wording regarding what data may be retained by our channel management bot litharge in order to limit it scope.

The meeting decided that the proposed amendment was premature as it doesn’t cover data that may be retained by future channel management bots and that it should be revisited next meeting.

Other questions

Should we remove the NickServ vacation module?

This meeting discussed removing the NickServ VACATION command which has had relatively little legitimate use. VACATION triples nick expiration times during the next logout. The meeting also considered whether the expiration of primary nicks should be extended due to this command being removed.

The meeting agreed that VACATION should be removed, and that users who plan to be away from the network for more than a third of a year may contact staff to arrange an extended expiry time if necessary. The meeting agreed NOT to extend expiration times across the board, but did agree that unexpired accounts which have VACATION set should still keep the benefits of VACATION until their next login.