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samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
What board? They have resigned. It's just two directors remaining, one of which is the unresponsive CEO.
samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
Again I'm not a Director, so not my problem.
samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
I'm not a director though, I'm just a poor volunteer that cannot do much.
samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
Officially one of the directors, and there's two of them remaining. Even the other Director doesn't have any access to the bank.
samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
Will not help, as they (our CEO) don't seem to want to answer to anything related to Fosshost. Also I cannot be bothered anymore.
samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
I don't know if the whole thing was ever officially documented, so we don't really have a way to gain control to the bank account. There's two directors remaining, and no board to speak of as they have resigned.

All in all, we have tried our best to prevent this, but we cannot anymore.

I don't know what's the motive for the CEO to be unresponsive and I don't want to speculate anything, but it's not at all fun for anyone.

samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
Yes, but Fosshost's bitfall is that one singular person is the only person with access to critical things, like the bank and thus is the only person able to pay our bills despite having money there or there should be.

The Radix Project is trying to learn from our mistakes and do them better so one doesn't face a similar issue due to a singular person having too much control.

samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
He has been unresponsive for the past 6 months, I have even tried calling and they decided to not answer so...

This has been going on internally for really long from when people started to resign in 2021/2022 due to management issues.

samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
Not to my knowledge, or we tried but they weren't given access by our CEO so there's that.
samip537··on Fosshost Is Shutting Down
We are unable to pay for co-location costs, and that's why our servers will go offline as Thomas our CEO is unreacheable. He only has access to bank and thus to funds.

Explaination of the DC thing at Github: https://github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/po... (Other posts can be read from there too.)

Post from three months ago regarding state of affairs: https://github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/po...

Skyler, one of the last Fosshost volunteers.