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mcc

Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.

The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:

opencollective.com/tusky/updat

Or a TL;DR:

mastodon.social/@Tusky/1109804

30 Aug 2023 at 20:27 | Open on mastodon.social
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mcc

If you read the Sunday/Monday posts by Nik Clayton, please read ours also.

I want to be clear both I, and the project, have no desire to escalate any conflict with Nik. In the interest of that, we tried to stick to the facts and left out almost all of our own emotions about the subject (I've got some!), as well as trying to omit anything that could be construed as a counter-accusation.

Our goal is to prevent any inaccurate narratives from circulating. We do feel Nik's post contained some.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:29 | Open on mastodon.social
mcc

The context, from my own perspective: Tusky is currently run by a consensus process of all contributors, not any one person. I participate in that process as the organizer/moderator of our bimonthly contributor meeting.

For the record, I have never been involved in our financial side of Tusky, nor received money from the project. I was involved in the post-Nik investigation and I feature in (and wrote parts of) the OpenCollective post, and I stand behind everything in that post.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:32 | Open on mastodon.social
mcc

This thread is long, as our (and Nik's) post is long. My Mastodon reach exceeds Nik's, and by posting about this I'm probably spreading the dirty laundry here to people who previously hadn't heard about any of this. Sorry about that. I don't think this is the best use of our OpenCollective blog, or my Mastodon account, or frankly the time I've put into the incident response here. But I care *very* much about Tusky, both the app and our community, and I think it's important to correct the record.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:36 | Open on mastodon.social
Irenes (many)
mcc

In conclusion: Imagine that in lieu of this post, I screamed for thirty-six seconds nonstop and then collapsed unconscious.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:37 | Open on mastodon.social
Raven Onthill

@mcc is there going to be an independent audit? I think that's probably the only way to resolve this; an opinion from a neutral third party.

How big is the collective? What is its formal organization?

30 Aug 2023 at 20:39 | Open on mastodon.social
mcc

@ravenonthill Raven, before I answer this question, did you read the post?

EDIT: The one on OpenCollective, I mean.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Tak!

@mcc Why do I have a suspicion that you have actually measured this duration?

30 Aug 2023 at 20:44 | Open on glitch.taks.garden
Clairement crevée

@mcc thank you for your work on Tusky, technical and otherwise, and thanks for the response

30 Aug 2023 at 20:47 | Open on social.sitedethib.com
David P
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Dan Shick

@mcc this was such a relief to read. I never doubted that I would be reading such a thing but it was still great to read it. thank you, thank you, thank you for everything.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:35 | Open on hact.org
Fish Id Wardrobe

@mcc The response seems really grown-up to me – FWIW

30 Aug 2023 at 20:37 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
mcc

@fishidwardrobe Thanks. It took three days to finish because we wanted to be very, *very* careful about everything we said.

Also we had to coordinate American, European and Korean time zones. My sleep schedule is currently SHOT.

30 Aug 2023 at 20:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Pusher Of Pixels

@mcc much appreciate a level headed response!

30 Aug 2023 at 20:43 | Open on universeodon.com
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