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+% Alyssa Rosenzweig has resigned from the Libreboot project
+% Leah Rowe
+% 1 September 2017
+
+Alyssa Rosenzweig has notified the rest of the team (Andrew Robbins, Paul
+Kocialkowski, Leah Rowe and Swift Geek) of her intention to step down from the
+core management team, as per [our management guidelines](../management.md),
+due to increased pressure from school studies which prevent her from having
+time to contribute.
+
+In her email, she wishes the Libreboot project well and states that she intends
+to continue contributing in the future.
+
+I, Leah Rowe, wish Alyssa all the best in life, and I'm sure that this will be
+felt by the other maintainers in Libreboot, and I'm extremely grateful for the
+numerous invaluable contributions that she made to the project.
+
+A note about the hosting infrastructure, and sysadmin tasks
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Alyssa was previously acting as the system administrator for the Libreboot
+project, in charge of maintaining the project's infrastructure. Additionally,
+she was acting as Public Relations manager for the project; in particular, she
+was handling Libreboot's application to join the GNU project.
+
+I have since assumed these responsibilities, at least for the time being, and
+I will be working alongside the other members of the team going forward.
+Since Alyssa had stepped down, nobody was in place to maintain the hosting
+infrastructure for the project. Our old hosting provider was giving us issues,
+so we switched hosting provider; this means that I'm currently maintaining the
+hosting infrastructure for the project, since nobody else was willing to.
+
+The only piece of infrastructure currently missing is the mailing list. We now
+have a fully functional mail server, and I will finish studying and installing
+GNU Mailman version 3 (the software that will be used for handling the mailing
+list). There are currently no repositories available for it on the GNU+Linux
+distribution that libreboot.org uses (Debian), so we will have to maintain it
+ourselves.
+
+Swift Geek also works alongside me, for sysadmin tasks, and has been
+particularly helpful in advising on good practises for the setup of the new
+mail server. I myself haven't had time to work on it for a while, but it will
+be up soon. The mailing list that Alyssa created was only online for a week,
+before we had to switch hosting provider for the project, and nobody had
+started using it yet, so downtime for the mailing list hasn't been a huge
+issue; people use the Notabug instance, and IRC.
+
+I will issue another news post, once the new mailing list is online. For the
+time being, the links to it have been removed on the website.
+
+The mail server itself is online, so the 4 of us on the team now have
+libreboot.org email addresses; these are published on the
+[governance page](../management.md). If anyone wishes to contact a member of
+the project directly via email, we recommend that you use these email
+addresses.
+
+Of interest: the new hosting infrastructure for libreboot.org is entirely
+libre. The main router on that network is a Libreboot system, with the router software
+running on top of GNU+Linux. The server for libreboot.org (web and mail server)
+is also a Libreboot system with GNU+Linux; postfix and dovecot for the mail
+server, and nginx for the web server. DNS is also planned (the DNS hosting is
+currently outsourced).
+
+Of further interest: libreboot.org is now IPv6-ready. All services are
+dual stack IPv4+IPv6. Stronger encryption is used in the TLS configuration for
+nginx aswell, for HTTPS, and HSTS is enabled by default.
+
+The certificate authority used for TLS is Let's Encrypt. This is used for
+HTTPS and for encrypted connections to the mail server.
+
+The new hosting infrastructure is also much more secure than the previous one,
+not just because Libreboot powers it but because of special configurations made
+on externally accessible services (such as SSH and email).
+
+I am currently looking for a new colocation provider, but the hardware used
+for hosting should be stable from now on. I have found one, which I'm looking
+into, but I'm also considering other options.