Nivenly's First Fellow: Hazel Weakly
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 in Blog
🎉 Hello and Welcome 🎉 Hello everyone! Nivenly’s Board of Directors and I have been working hard to lay the groundwork to support increased activity in the non-profit. As many know, we lost our founder (and my fiancée), Kris Nóva in August …
Pachli introduction
Monday, July 01, 2024 in Blog
This is a guest post by Nik Clayton, currently stewarding the Pachli project. Pachli is an Android client application for Mastodon and similar servers, and now an official Nivenly project. Since the Pachli project’s inception the goal has been …
Pachli decision
Friday, April 26, 2024 in Blog
In November 2023, Pachli applied to be a Nivenly member project. We have learned our lesson from how we approach Haidra’s application, so we put the question of whether we should support Pachli to the Nivenly membership. The results of that …
Haidra decision
Monday, April 15, 2024 in Blog
In July 2023, we announced that Haidra has joined Nivenly as a member project. Shortly afterwards, we received feedback from the Nivenly membership that they were not supportive of this decision. As a new foundation we had forgotten one of our core …
First vote results
Saturday, April 13, 2024 in Blog
Earlier this month, we sent out the first Nivenly Member vote covering Pachli, Haidra, and general feedback. As per our bylaws, we need 50% of the membership to participate in a vote for quorum, and 50% of total voting members to be in consensus for …
Open Collective Foundation and Nivenly
Saturday, March 02, 2024 in Blog
tl;dr - there is no impact to Nivenly or our operations. The Open Collective Foundation (OCF) recently announced they will dissolve at the end of 2024. The Foundation is a fiscal host that happens to share a name with the software, Open Collective. …
Resolutions passed
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 in Blog
Since losing our founding member and President, Kris Nóva, we have had some challenges getting together as a board to pass some much needed resolutions. Our secretary, Preston Doster, developed an alternative approach that has allowed us to pass the …
Updates for October and November
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 in Blog
Nivenly Updates Hello everyone! As many of you know, we have been working to restore and formalize operations and duties after the unexpected passing of our founder, Kris Nóva, in August. We would like to update you on what has been happening in each …
Hey, I've got questions...
Monday, October 09, 2023 in Blog
Hey, I’ve got questions… The Nivenly Foundation is growing fast and our community has many questions. We’re dedicating time from our volunteers to answer them. This blog post describes why we think this is a critical step to take at this point in the …
An announcement regarding Kris Nóva
Saturday, August 19, 2023 in Blog
It is with immense sadness that we must share with you the news of the loss of our friend, our leader, and our mentor, Kris Nóva. It was Nóva who inspired us to come together to build Hachyderm, whose vision created Nivenly, and whose mission we …