aeschright

When will [email protected] be released (and other PRs merged?)

On March 22, npm fired several members of the open source and community team for discussing workplace conditions and other labor organizing activities. As a result, core employee contributors to the npm cli were removed from the project, and others have left in solidarity or put their work on hold.

Multiple claims were filed with the NLRB on this matter. The NLRB has investigated and found sufficient evidence of validity to proceed. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 protects US employees' right to engage in discussions of workplace concerns without threat of retaliation -- and awareness of the importance of how we treat each other is something I valued so much in collaborating with the cli team. How can we work together if we aren't free to discuss what we need?

It's disappointing for all of us to find the work we were doing interrup

travisbrown

The current version of this document is here.

This document contains additional supporting material for the claims in this post (published 1 September 2019), in response to a cease and desist letter from John De Goes that I received on 6 July 2020.

Please see also this post for more information about De Goes deleting the FCoP repository on GitHub shortly before sending the cease and desist letter.

Table of contents

• The complaints
• Response to complaint 1

travisbrown

Please see this response for more context.

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Dear Mr. Brown:

We represent the legal interests of our client, Mr. John Arlen De Goes, Maryland, USA.

For several years now, you have repeatedly defamed our client on the internet. Your public blog https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-community/ specifically targets our client with the goal to publicly vilify our client. This blog can be easily found with the help of search engines like Google by just searching for the name of our client. On this blog, amongst other false statements, you falsely allege the following about our client:

travisbrown

I've seen some reactions to this list (some people are mad that they're on it, some people are mad that they aren't on it, some people are mad that other people are on it, some people are mad that they aren't on it any more, some people are going to pay me a visit), and most of those reactions are based on misinterpretations, so I'm shortening the list and adding an explanation.

This list isn't a ranking of who is most ideologically committed to this hate group. I don't know who any of these people ar