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+Open Letter to the Free Software Community
+---------------------------------------------
+
+To the free software community:
+
+Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord.
+After an issue with a transgender employee at the FSF escalated, Libreboot
+publicly left GNU with little consultation from the community. Relations with
+so many people were strained. Friendships broken, lines of code never written:
+the chaos needs to come to an end.
+
+A series of organisational issues with Libreboot enabled this fallout to occur.
+We have since corrected them:
+
+Previously, the libreboot repository and the website could only be modified by
+the project leader, Leah Rowe. This setup created a single point of failure,
+with little leeway for dissenting contributors. Since then, I have joined the
+project as the sysadmin. Along with another contributor, Sebastian "Swift Geek"
+Grzywna, direct access to the code and servers is shared. Though the project
+cannot yet be completely decentralised, this change is a win for transparency.
+
+Previously, most of libreboot.org, including public statements such as those
+regarding GNU, were issued by Leah herself. The rest of the team and the
+community were not consulted. As Damien Zammit, a former contributor noted, the
+word "we" on old Libreboot notices meant "Leah". But alas, there is no room for
+the "royal we" in democracy.
+
+Finally, on a personal note, Leah was at the time struggling with gender
+dysphoria and substance abuse. Since then, she has been managing these issues.
+She agrees that her behaviour was rash and is determined to find a unifying
+solution. 
+
+With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software
+Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn't matter.
+Indeed, it is unlikely that Libreboot will ever rejoin GNU, but feuding in an
+already fragmented community helps nobody. The world of free software is
+shrinking and under attack. Though the FSF may make mistakes from time to time,
+so do we. We do not need another divide.
+
+Similarly, we would like to work closely with librecore, another project
+working to deblob coreboot, whose team includes Damien Zammit. Once librecore
+matures, libreboot plans to switch to librecore in lieu of our current
+deblobbed fork. That is, there will be less duplication of effort; instead of
+competing with librecore, libreboot will complement it.
+
+As a technical update, we are currently working on a Libreboot port to
+the X220. Leah and Swift are investigating ways to disable the ME on
+Sandybridge hardware, which potentially means more modern Intel hardware may be
+supported. Additionally, Paul Kocialkowski has been working on supporting
+several new Chromebooks with ARM chips; these ports will also be available in
+an upcoming release.
+
+No more "royal we". No more notorious surprises. No more late night
+"typofixes".
+
+Transparency and collaboration are the way forward.
+
+~Alyssa Rosenzweig