(Trigger Warning) Jeremy Bicha & Debian-Edu, TecKids, Ubuntu incest scandal at DebConf25

Trigger warning: this is a report about how Debianism prefers abusers to those who consistently and compassionately helped victims of abuse.

Those who dare to look up the public court records about Jeremy Bicha have been shocked and in some cases unable to sleep after reading how he exploited every bodily orifice of his little sisters when they were six and nine years old. Yet I feel a possibility that Jeremy Bicha himself is now being exploited to make us feel shock and to soften us up for future revelations about unnamed oligarchs in the open source eco-system. There have been many falsified rumours about abuse over the years, such as the conspiracy against Dr Jacob Appelbaum. Whenever we get to the point that the leader of some so-called community really is put on trial for real abuse, the victims are unlikely to have suffered as extensively as Bicha's little sisters.

I didn't write and publish this report to start a lynching against Jeremy Bicha himself. He has confessed his crimes which is much more than can be said for other sex pests. The real reason for the report is to look at the decisions that organisations have made putting a registered sex offender on a pedestal but in the case of commercial rivals or people who made mistakes with pronouns, we are being censored and harassed by the oligarchs for the most mundane mistakes.

The BBC is in fresh trouble over their pre-existing knowledge of a scandal involving Scott Mills. It was a major story in the UK the week before Easter and then it disappeared. I suspect that sooner or later we will hear more details.

Almost every day there is a fresh news report about Jeffrey Epstein. During the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, she told us her partner, Epstein, needed to be with a woman at least three times per day. People with children or teenage daughters will feel very uncomfortable about having these men around. Less than two percent of Debian Developers are female but at DebConf almost one in three participants is in the gay/transgender/Zizian set. In the wider population it is only one in ten people.

These people don't have children. They don't think about having children. They don't spend a lot of time thinking about the risks. Having a registered sex offender present at the after-party may be on the bucket list for some of these people. They are willing to risk other people's children and tarnish Debian's reputation so they can have something unusual at the after-party.

For people who do have children, they don't go to the DebConf orgy groups but they do stay up all night reading through reports like this to try and work out whether the risk is acceptable or not.

The Debian Suicide Cluster correlates with a culture of violence and humiliations. Coincidentally, rape and abuse are also about violence and humiliation. Adding a registered sex offender to the group only reinforces those existing Debian character traits when we need to be looking for the opposite, people who serve to neutralise those cultural defects.

News that a Registered Sex Offender(TM) was invited to speak at DebConf25 in France is not a random accident. Certain groups like Debianism have been overcome by fringe diversity movements. Over the years, we've seen the same people using their authority to humiliate fellow volunteers in much the same way that paedophiles humiliate children. Statistically, we can be certain there are similar men in the same group. Jeremy Bicha was the thin end of the wedge. By putting a known offender on a pedestal and claiming they are helping him, they are clearing a path for other more cunning characters to be given a platform.

The people who control Debianism mailing lists have a nasty habit of censoring any concerns about the phenomena. They believe everybody agrees with their worldview. They are living in a bubble. Sooner or later, there will be a person or an incident that is so bad that it is the end of Debian. Society at large simply doesn't accept some of the things these people do.

Moreover, certain companies would like to see Debian fail. They will give enough money to the diversity budget to create a scandal and then those companies will get out of the way as quickly as possible.

The Debian Social Contract tells us, in point three, We will not hide problems.

In the case of the registered sex offender invited to speak at DebConf25 in France, all discussion has been deliberately shut down. Video of the talk is not hosted with video of the other talks. People are scouring the official photo gallery to see if Jeremy Bicha was really there at all and who sat next to him.

This situation and the manner in which Debianists are hiding it reveals the real definiton of diversity and the real use of diversity funds.

Phil O'Donnell is a priest who quit and became a whistleblower. In his testimony to the state inquiry, he tells us:

This resulted in “Jack” ringing me in an extremely distressed state. His words on the phone were, “I think it would have been better to hear my mother had died”. He was a relatively early victim of [Fr Kevin] O’Donnell and his abuse was reported to the Cathedral in 1958. This allegation was investigated at the time by both the then Vicar-General, Laurie Moran, and the then Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Arthur Fox. Nothing eventuated from this investigation.

A recent report from Lunduke has the title Fedora's Code of Conduct: 200 Day Response Time, Only Protects You if Red Hat Likes You.

In 1962, Stanley Kubrick released the controversial film Lolita.

Charles Manson was using women in his cult, the Manson Family, to murder people. He hoped that by committing these violent murders he could start riots, like the modern day phenomena of #MeToo mobs on social control media. On 9 August 1969, they killed the actress Sharon Tate, who was the wife of film director Roman Polanski.

Debian's Jeremy Bicha ordination has curious parallels to the mistakes made by the Catholic Church when handling real abuse complaints. In the 1960s, the wedding of my aunt was conducted by a bishop rather than an ordinary priest. Coincidentally, it was the same bishop mentioned above. As well as the missed opportunity to protect children from Fr Kevin O'Donnell, another court case revealed Bishop Arthur Fox was accused of ordaining at least one known paedophile, just as Debianists have now ordained a registered sex offender by telling everybody that he is a Debian Developer.

In the 1970s, Bishop Fox was the Bishop of Sale. On 3 July 1972, when he was in his early forties, Hourigan wrote to Bishop Fox asking that he be accepted to study for the priesthood. In the letter Hourigan set out what he said were two ‘flies in the ointment’. The first related to an issue with Hourigan’s back, and is of little moment. The second was a disclosure (referred to by the judge as ‘the disclosure’) that on three separate occasions, occurring at two separate boarding schools in Papua New Guinea at which he was working, boys in his care who, he said, he had occasion to punish for misbehaviour, responded by complaining to a priest that he had treated them harshly and that he was a homosexual. A short time after the second and third complaints, Hourigan left the second boarding school and returned to Australia.

The implication is that Bishop Fox had personal knowledge of the disclosure and history of abuse before he ever ordained Fr Hourigan.

Between the 1960s and 1980s, groups were formed in various countries with their primary purpose being to lower or abolish the age of consent. In the USA, it was the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). In the UK, the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was formed in 1974. The group recruited young law students keen to advocate for what they felt was a pressing human rights issue.

Britain's National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), known today as Liberty, had a very open attitude to memberships and affiliations. PIE and many other fringe groups became members of NCCL / Liberty and regularly attended the annual general meetings where they rubbed shoulders with lawyers and lobbyists from a range of different movements.

The Conversation tells us the British Communist Party was also affiliated with NCCL / Liberty. People have been scouring old copies of British tabloid newspapers to find evidence of similar diversity fringe groups promoting incest, canabalism and bestiality. NCCL / Liberty was not endorsing any of these groups and the PIE was no more or less special than any other diversity fringe group.

In the same era, Tom O'Carroll, leader of the PIE and Robert Lamb, father of Debian's future leader Chris Lamb both graduated from the University of Cambridge. Robert Lamb went to work for Roger Ellis QC at 13 King's Bench West (13KBW) Chambers.

The manner in which the paedophile advocacy groups participated in the NCCL / Liberty and the legal profession can be summarised by the expression I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. By the 1980s, governments around the world had developed strategies to shut down and outlaw groups like PIE.

The eradication of these groups was significant because it forced the pro-abuse lobby to look for more discrete ways to achieve their unholy objectives. In other words, they have to join other groups like the Catholic Church and the Debian Project in the hope they will gain credibility, access to children or both.

Between 1977 and 1978, Roman Polanski, whose wife had been murdered by the Manson Family cult, was prosecuted for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He fled America to live in France and evade a likely jail sentence. As he was born in France he can't be extradited to America. He continued his career in France and received numerous awards for his work. Many professionals in the movie industry have publicly indicated support for Polanski, despite the very serious crime he committed against a child.

Between 1978 and 1982, in another Catholic abuse situation where the victim agreed to waive anonymity, David Ridsdale was abused by his uncle, the priest Gerald Ridsdale. Under Australian law, when the uncle is found guilty of such an offence, their identity and their conviction can not be reported in the media as it would compromise the identity of the victim. Nonetheless, David Ridsdale waived his right to anonymity and so it could be reported that Gerald Ridsdale, who was the worst offender in the country, had even committed abuse against one of his own relatives.

Jeremy Bicha was born on 12 August 1984.

In 1988, Katharine (Kath) Thornton and Christian Porter participated in Australia's national high school debating team. The former alleges she was abused by the latter. She took her own life. He became the Attorney General. Federal Court judges published her accusations in full, bypassing Australia's strict defamation laws. Related: ABC News report.

 

 

 

The media originally obfuscated the name and face of the victim but it wasn't long before everybody knew. She had created the dossier, started a conversation with the police and then she committed suicide. Eventually the Federal Court judges decided to publish everything for the public to make up our own minds.

 

I selected those portions of the document to emphasize the striking similarities between Katharine Thornton's abuse report and the acts that Jeremy Bicha admitted inflicting on his sisters.

According to the summary of the complaint on the Manatee County Courthouse web site, the abuse occurred between 1995 and 1999, in other words, when Jeremy Bicha was only between eleven and fifteen years of age himself. One of his sisters was nine and another was only six when these horrible crimes took place.

In the court documents, Jeremy Bicha told prosecutors his parents were very strict and kept all the siblings together at home. In countries with urban sprawl and a car culture, which includes Australia, a teenage boy starting high school has no way to meet friends of the same age unless an adult is willing to drive him there and bring him back home. Europeans who live in apartments and terrace houses are much closer together. Therefore, people who haven't lived in urban sprawl can't fully appreciate the impact it has on childhood.

In 1997, Adrian Lyne produced a fresh version of the film Lolita.

Shortly after that, I was photographed in Australia's Parliament House, Canberra with Natasha Stott-Despoja. After leaving her job as a senator, Natasha was appointed as Australia's ambassador for women and girls. She was subsequently appointed to represent Australia on the UN CEDAW committee. CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The committee is one of the most influential international bodies concerned with the status and wellbeing of women. The photograph was taken during the same period of time where Jeremy Bicha admits abusing his little sisters.

 

In the early days of Debianism, many young teenage males were exploited. Ringleaders have been interchangeably presenting Debianism as a hobby, as a philosophical mission and as an activity that people undertake while being paid by an external employer like Freexian. Ringleaders pivot between these definitions of Debianism depending upon which definition is most convenient for the ringleaders themselves in any particular situation or dispute.

They used the appeal of a philosophical mission to recruit numerous teenagers, mostly boys in their mid-teens, who were starstruck by the names of companies like Pixar, where Bruce Perens worked. These teenagers didn't really appreciate the extent to which they were working alongside people who were being paid six-figure salaries to do similar tasks. I'm talking about Joel "Espy" Klecker, Shaya Potter and Chris Rutter. Klecker was doing this unpaid work while he was in bed dying of a terminal illness ( detailed report). Shaya Potter appears to be the first documented case of somebody expelled after he had already resigned. Chris Rutter even had servers for unpaid Debianism work installed at his high school. He was observed working long hours to meet his obligations to Debianists shortly before walking in front of a car. These may be the three most prominent teenagers in the early days of Debianism and it is disturbing to see that two died while one was subject to gaslighting and ostracized.

Here is a debian-private leaked message where the underage phenomena is mentioned explicitly:

Subject: Re: why I want the archives on me (was Re: spotter@debian.org)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:56:41 -0500
From: Shaya Potter <spotter@ymail.yu.edu>
To: joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com
CC: debian-private@lists.debian.org


----- Original Message -----
From: <joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com>

>
>On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
>> Now that this is out of the way, I'd like to publicly ask if I can have
an
>> archive of all the communication that went on in regard to me.
>
>Strictly speaking I tend to disagree that you or anybody has an a-priori
>right to know what is being said and told on debian-private.  It is simply
>a private list.  Things would be different if you were mentioned in a
>public list without being able to respond.  But that is in all aspects
>clearly not the current situation.

First, I never said I have a right.  In many ways I think i don't have a
right, or even if I did, I don't deserve it.  I don't think my statements
have implied that I believe I have a right to demand that it be given to me.

I do have a right to ask that it be done.  Debian has a right to say yes or
no.

>
>(Nevertheless, I think that it would be considerate to cc: you in
>any discussion that involves you in a very personal manner - this has
>IMHO until now hardly been the case though.)

It hasn't?  Than how did the decision to expell me come about?  Who told
people who made the decision what happened?  Was this all done in private
mail?

>
>If a non-subscriber of debian-private must share in the conversation on
>debian-private, then this should IMHO be done by adding that person to the
>clearly visible cc: line of the header of any messages to be "published."
>That way, it will be adequately clear that the correspondence leaves the
>realm of debian-private and thus everybody can conclude that normal
>confidentiality can not be expected.  AFAIK respect for the confidential
>nature of debian-private is a prerequisite for subscription to this list.

I would have respected the confidentiality, as I have made it known that I
don't want this to spread, as I am embarrased by my actions.

>
>Practically speaking, I disagree that the underlying case generally
>concerns you. What matters here is not who Shaya Potter personally is or
>what particularly Shaya Potter did. The discussion is about how issues
>like the one involving you relate to Debian.  This discussion does not
>involve you personally.

I don't want the entire discussion, I just want to see the parts that touch
on me personally.  I don't care for the rest, of what about underage
developers and the like....

>
>> I was told that it would not be a star chamber, and that I'd be cc'd in
>> on all the corrospondace.  That didn't occur.
>
>There was no "star chamber."  You have already been generously cc:'-ed.

I was?  The only cc:'s I ever got were in response to me starting a thread.
That implies to me, that acc. to what you were saying, that no discussion
on -private occured that I didn't start.  However, I know this not to be the
case, as before I was unsubscribed from -private, I saw a thread or 2
started that dealt with me.

>
>IMHO you do not have a right to be cc:-'ed on the _general_ discussion
>which does not particularly (personally) involve you.

never said I did.

>
>> Also, I really have no idea of what discussion went on, if mistruthes
>> were spread about the incident (as in reality, I'm the only one that
>> knows completely what happened, and no one really ever asked me for the
>> full story).
>
>If this worries you so much, then I seriously wonder why you did not
>immediately relate it to debian-private when the issue arose in the first
>place?

I did apologize on -private right away, however, I didn't want to spread
what I did.  I specifically told people that I would rather this not be
discussed on -private and have me showed the door quietly, and told never to
come back.  That didn't happen, it was discussed on -private.  I don't know
what was discussed in relation to me, so I want to be informed.

>
>Again, the discussion is not yours.  Again, you are not personally
>involved.  Your only "role" in the discussion is that you have created a
>precedent.  I thinks we can all agree that we would rather have had you
>not be a precedent case, but it happened.  I'm very sorry, but you'll
>have to blame yourself for that.

Trust me, I've blamed myself a lot for this.  If you seen any of my
corrospondance you would know this.  I don't blame anyone for my
predicament, but myself.

>Discussion on debian-private does not count as a statement from Debian.
>So there simply were no statements.  I'm not really in favor of making any
>strong or overly verbose statements either.  If there ever is to be a
>statement from Debian about an issue such as the current one involving
>Shaya, I think that person should be briefed thoroghly beforehand.

I'm not talking about a debian statement.  I don't want a public statement,
and I know a lot of people from debian don't want one either (though some
might).  What I meant by statements, was statements that individuals made,
that might be incorrect, or inacurate.

>Shaya, can you please just put this to a rest?  IMHO it is not very
>productive for anybody.  And please take it from me that you have no
>reason to be concerned that you have been in a "star chamber."

I am not worried about a star chamber, I would have prefered it in many
ways.  However, at least with a star chamber you usually get to see the case
presented against you, even though you don't have the ability to defend
yourself.  As I said many times, my case is indefensable, so that wouldn't
bother me.

Shaya

Joel "Espy" Klecker, Shaya Potter and Chris Rutter, due to their youth and inexperience, didn't realize what they were doing was work. They didn't realize it is normal to be paid.

We find exactly the same phenomena in the Jeremy Bicha abuse testimony. His sister tells us she was too young to know the words for what he was doing in her underpants.

It is scary how this type of paedophile and Debianism at large has exploited naivité to gain an unfair advantage over young victims.

In October 1999 the role of teenagers was back in the spotlight:

Subject: Debian Death March
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Guys.  Is Debian still the hippest, coolest, happeningest distribution
around, or are we a dinosaur lost in the forest?

The posts I've read on this list today reek of a Death March.

Yes, many of the Debian originals have moved on, retired, or fallen
quiescent.  Others of us have had sudden changes in our life; new jobs, loss
of jobs, loss of internet access, newborn infants, need to spend time with
spouses and loved ones.

Many of the rest have gotten tired.  The friends they joined this marvelous
big project with are no longer around...  The stress of mentoring up a new
generation of package maintainers, and hopefully core developers falls on
their already burdened shoulders, taking away from their time spent coding.

As social scientists know, the future is the children.  Or in our case, the
future is the teenage "hackers" getting their first computer, going in their
first irc chatroom, using their first nuker... and realizing there is
something far more interesting, constructive and beautiful beyond the raw
violence of their little world.  An ordered system of many parts, of many
people collaborating in peace, cooperating on a scale that they will take
for granted, because we have made it seem so natural, but which makes any
sane adult boggle at our achievement.

[ ... snip ... ]

In 1999, Red Hat made their Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the stock market. Debian Developers were invited to buy some of the shares but inexperienced investors, which includes the underage developers, were excluded by the manner in which the IPO was conducted.

Given that Debianism has the exploitation of youth in its DNA, it is really sad to see that a registered sex offender and various characters with similar tendencies were put up on a pedestal in the era of Chris Lamb.

In 2002, the Boston Globe's Spotlight team published their reports about the Catholic abuse crisis. The reports were not simply about the actions of individual paedophiles. The journalists went to great lengths to examine how the institution had ordained the wrong people and stonewalled victims. In the Debian harassment culture, we see much the same thing. People who ask questions are censored on the mailing lists. The leaders stonewall and refuse to answer questions or provide reports about the Debian suicide cluster and their knowledge of Jeremy Bicha's history.

In 2004, we had the first discussion about offering financial incentives to transgender people. It is an ethical and moral minefield:

Subject: Re: Nut-case of the day - Was: [Fwd: URGENT: This is potentially a threat to your and others personal security]
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:53:33 -0700
From: Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:28:03PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:23, Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> wrote:
> > I could probably arrange for Debian to have a TG developer, but somehow,
> > this doesn't seem like a primary qualification; we don't have quotas. :)
> 
> If they can code well or can be taught to code well then please get them in!
> 
> Especially if they have some skills at kernel coding.  I think that we could 
> do with having more skilled developers dealing with the kernel patch 
> packages.

What I didn't mention is that it would probably involve me bribing her to
deal with it; she doesn't find Debian to be quite worthwhile enough on its
own merits (she likes it, she just likes FreeBSD better, and has little
enough time to spare overall that short of someone making it worth giving
up what else she does, it isn't worth it).

This would be the primary reason she isn't already a DD, since the only
part of NM that would pose any issue at all is the wait (I can sign her
trivially, and passing the requirements is a no-brainer). But we don't
really need another developer not doing much most of the time, and I
have better uses of the money than paying her to work on it. :)
-- 
Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>                                        ,''`.
Debian GNU/NetBSD(i386) porter                                       : :' :
                                                                     `. `'
				                                       `-

In 2006, Red Hat opened their main research site in Brno, a small city in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic had joined the European Union (EU) in 2004. Thanks to the Freedom of Movement policy of EU countries, Red Hat could employ young male graduates from any other EU country and bring them to work in Brno without any uncertainty about residence permits and visas. Over the years, thousands of young and predominantly male engineers came to work for various multinational companies in this remote part of the Czech Republic. At the same time, young women from eastern European countries were all leaving small cities like Brno and either moving to the capital, Prague or moving to other cities like London, Paris and Berlin. These arrangements created a huge imbalance. Thousands of highly paid young single men found themselves competing for the very small group of women who decided not to leave. A lot of the companies started talking about the need for diversity programs. While nobody says it out loud, it looks like these programs are intended to increase the size of the dating pool in these offshore centers. Official statistics tell us that Brno has the highest suicide rate in the country.

When eastern European countries joined the EU, some of the western countries like Germany and France introduced a temporary delay on Freedom of Movement for workers. The delay didn't apply to Freedom of Movement for wives and girlfriends. This table shows us that workers from Czech Republic could go to the UK immediately after joining the EU in 2004 but they could not take jobs in France until 2008 or Germany until 2011. As a consequence, young women could use Freedom of movement to marry somebody in a rich country but many young men had to stay in the Czech Republic. The young men who remained found themselves in direct competition against the Red Hat workforce for the last girlfriends who remained in Brno.

During that period, I was living to the north of London near to Luton airport. Thousands of people from eastern Europe were arriving every day on the low cost airlines. It was fairly easy to distinguish the tourists from the people who were relocating. The people relocating under Freedom of Movement had typically purchased the maximum luggage allowance and arrived with their whole life in a suitcase that was so overloaded it looked like it was about to burst. In particular, a lot of the women who arrived like this were making the move alone with no safety net. Their plan was to get off the plane and find a room, a job and a husband. These are the women who the Red Hat employees in Brno missed out on.

During the Cold War, the UK, out of all the western countries, had developed a unique, mythical fairytale status in the minds of people from eastern European countries. This was captured in James Bond movies and John le Carré spy novels where the fictional women of eastern European communist countries spoke in glowing terms of the new lives they dreamed about having in London.

In January 2006, Raphael Hertzog infamously used the debian-devel-announce email list to promote a message about an external product, Ubuntu that not everybody is interested in. Andrew Suffield adapted the subject line of Hertzog's email to promote lesbians instead of Ubuntu. Some people speculate Suffield chose the word lesbian because it looks a little bit like the word Debian and there are a disproportionate number of LGBT people lurking in the mailing lists.

The original message has been censored but it is easy to find here in the Wayback Machine.

To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu
From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:35:24 +0100

Hello fellow Debian developers,

let me explain shortly why I'll speak of Ubuntu on a Debian announce
list. I know that many of you do not like the Canonical marketing saying
that "Ubuntu is contributing back" because the most visible official
contribution is scott's patch repository and that all other successful
collaboration has been made at the level of individual developers who are
"friendly to Debian" and not because Canonical's policy ask them to do
so.

[ ... snip ... ]

and Andrew Suffield:

To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: For those who care about lesbians
From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:00:40 +0000

Since this sort of thing is apparently okay nowadays, and I know that
a lot of you like looking at lesbians, I'd like to share this with
you:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63978244@N00/81351129/in/photostream/

[And for the sarcasm-impaired: debian-devel-announce is for Debian
development, not anything that you (or any other group of people)
happen to be interested in. Don't post irrelevant stuff here. It would
be a real shame if the list had to be moderated because people can't
exercise good judgement. Anything sent here should be of interest to
an overwhelming majority of Debian developers, *at least* - if you're
using phrases like "for those who care about X", it belongs somewhere
else, like X-announce.]

-- 
  .''`.  ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield
 : :' :  http://www.debian.org/ |
 `. `'                          |
   `-             -><-          |

The message links to this image. It is off-topic but the content is not illegal in any western countries.

 

Excuse the pun, the tit-for-tat continued with even more messages based on the same subject line template:

 

Not long after that, in May 2006, DebConf6 took place in Mexico. One of the candidates in recent Debianism elections, Jonathan Walther (Ted), brought a local woman, Hilda, to the conference dinner. People quickly started the rumour that Hilda was a prostitute. Nonetheless, she was the local dentist. To this day, dozens of messages about the rumour are present online in various web sites and debian-private archives. ( more details about the rumours and DebConf6 fight).

To understand why there was so much gossip and aggression at the DebConf6 dinner, you need to look at who really slept with who and then read the story again. The leaked room list tells us that Holger was sleeping with Amaya. Amaya helped start the rumour and Holger is the one who ended up exerting physical pressure on the victim, Jonathan Walther (Ted). When people are sleeping together, they don't always behave rationally any more.

From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debconf.org>
To: rooms@debconf.org
Subject: Re: [Debconf-announce] Room allocation
In-Reply-To: <20060328120500.GA10651@localhost> (Margarita Manterola's message
        of "Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:05:00 -0300")
Organization: Goliath-BBS

[ ... snip ... ]

>  * Who you would NOT like to share the room with.

I dont care that much who is in my room, as long as its not
Jonathan/Ted "krooger" Walther or Jeroen van Wolffelaar or Amaya.

[ ... snip ... ]

Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:39:37 +0200
From: Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= <dato@net.com.org.es>
To: rooms@debconf.org
Cc: Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org>,
        Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>,
        Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org>,
        Alberto =?utf-8?B?R29uesOhbGV6?= Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>,
        Marcela Tiznado <mtiznado@linux.org.ar>,
        Isaac Clerencia <isaac@debian.org>,
        Jacobo =?utf-8?Q?Tarr=C3=ADo?= Barreiro <jacobo@debian.org>,
        Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@computer.org>,
        Ana Beatriz Guerrero =?utf-8?B?TMOzcGV6?= <ana@ekaia.org>
Subject: Room preferences for a bunch of ~Spanish people

Hey marga!

  Some (mostly) Spanish people have been talking among us, and we'd like
  to share room at DebConf. We've thought that it'll be easier for you
  if we just write you one mail saying who we are, instead of each of us
  mailing you privately with our preferences. :)

  So, we'd like:

    - a 6-sized room for both DebCamp and DebConf (from 5th to the end)
    - a 4-sized room for DebConf only (from 13th to the end)

  The involved people (in order of arrival, all of them CC'ed) are:

    Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org>
    Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>
    Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org>
    Alberto Gonz=C3=A1lez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
    Adeodato Sim=C3=B3 <dato@net.com.org.es>
    Marcela Tiznado <mtiznado@linux.org.ar>

    Isaac Clerencia <isaac@debian.org>
    Jacobo Tarr=C3=ADo Barreiro <jacobo@debian.org>
    Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@computer.org>
    Ana Beatriz Guerrero L=C3=B3pez <ana@ekaia.org>

  Thanks in advance,

From the DebConf8 room list:

 

In 2006, the GNOME people created the Outreach Program for Women (OPW), which was subsequently renamed to Outreachy. The program pays young female interns to associate with the developers. The women are not expected and not always trusted to do development work themselves. Many of the women were offered free trips to conferences all over the world.

By December 2006, the Debianists had admitted they need professional help from a psychiatrist or occupational therapist to deal with the toxic culture.

Subject: Total world domination through therapy and free software!
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:25:08 +0100
From: Amaya <amaya@debian.org>
Organization: Debian - http://www.debian.org/
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Russell Coker wrote:
> True.  But we can only change some things and only in some areas.

Sure, we are just humans :)

> I will always have little sympathy for someone who complains bitterly
> about unfairness when by any objective metric they would be regarded
> as being in the most fortunate few percent of the world's population.

Yes, as in having clean tab water. Ack.

> Do you think it might be beneficial to have some group sessions at
> Deb-conf's to help us deal with these things?

I strongly believe in the group sauna effect :)

> Debian has a huge pile of money that is apparently not being spent,
> booking a good psychiatrist for a day for every DebConf would not make
> much of an impact on Debian finances and might have a good impact on
> productivity.

s/psychiatrist/therapist/ Maybe someone that is experienced in large voluntary communities could
give a talk, or workshop, or both.

It would be interesting to know wether anyone knows a person that could
help us this way. I could talk to some people if the idea doesn't look
stupid to the rest you the people reading this.

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In 2007, Jeremy Bicha joined the US Navy. The Navy is a very large organisation. The Navy recruited 37,000 personnel in the same year. They had no way to know about Jeremy Bicha's childhood.

By 2008, they were already talking about how they would recruit people's teenage children. This was well before the Debian pregnancy cluster started producing said children.

 
Subject: Re: [VAC] Going to the chapel ...
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:12:29 +0200
From: Lionel Elie Mamane 
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 03:29:27PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:

> On Saturday 28 June 2008 14:32, Benjamin Seidenberg
>  wrote:

>> The question is, will we accept parental signatures on the GPG keys?


> Why wouldn't you accept a parental signature? (...)

> Advocacy however is a different matter.  We want advocates to not be
> excessively biased, and I'm sure that while growing up we have all
> seen adequate evidence of parents who think that their children are
> angels while everyone else knows the truth...

> Of course if a parent was to quietly encourage the NM people to keep
> their child in the queue for an extra year or two then I think we
> should accept such a recommendation.

I fail to see why this is obviously desirable; parents can also be
biased in the other direction, that is think their late teenage
children are like one-year olds that cannot cross the street without
their supervision.

--
Lionel

Around the same time, in June 2008, Jeffrey Epstein made a guilty plea on two charges in state court. He was sentenced to 18 months in a county jail, which is less onerous than a state prison. He was authorised to participate in a work release program whereby he could leave the prison for sixteen hours per day, six days per week. It is rumoured that he was unhappy with his probation officer and exploited political connections to have the probation officer moved elsewhere.

Jeffrey Epstein worked as a schoolteacher before getting into finance. Therefore, he is far more culpable than a twelve-year-old juvenile offender like Jeremy Bicha.

From 25 to 27 September 2009, Taiwan hosted the International Conference on Open Source. One of the Debian Account Managers, Joerg Jaspert, travelled there and brought an Asian woman, Pei-Hua Tseng, back to Germany to marry him. He admits that he was presenting himself as a Debian Developer at the conference:

"I first met my wife at the “International Conference on OpenSource” 2009 in Taiwan. So OpenSource, Debian and me being some tiny wheel in the system wasn’t entirely news to her."

If any other random developer meets a woman at a conference they are insulted and told that relationships are a bad thing. Yet for the oligarchs representing Debian at events, it is open season on women. This relationship helped bootstrap the Debian pregnancy cluster.

In 2010, Jeremy Bicha's older sister went to Bob Jones university. The on-campus therapist gave her bad advice. The sister went to a more victim-oriented off-campus center, Julie Valentine Center. After counselling there, the victim and another sister, who is also a victim, reported the abuse to police.

US Navy investigators immediately questioned Jeremy Bicha. He admitted the allegations about his childhood are true. He was immediately terminated from Navy employment.

In August 2010, DebConf10 was in New York City. By this stage, we can see Debianism had well and truly adopted a cult lifestyle. A group of couples share rooms. They pretend we have no money while keeping it for themselves. They are pretending that bringing your wife is diversity.

 

 

On 15 August 2010, the night before Debian Day, the volunteer Frans Pop sent us his resignation / suicide note.

On 17 April 2011, the day that Carla and I got married, Adrian von Bidder-Senn died in Basel, Switzerland. People discussed it like a copycat suicide. This is a horrific thing to recall on your wedding anniversary each year.

 

Shortly after Adrian von Bidder-Senn died, his wife, Diana von Bidder-Senn sent an email revealing she was oblivious to what he was doing on his computer. In hindsight, we can see that both Adrian and Diana were tricked by Debianism in different ways:

Subject: Re: condolences for Adrian
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:02:18 +0200
From: Diana von Bidder <diana@fortytwo.ch>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org>

Dear Stefano
Thank you for your wonderful mail! Yes Debian and people were very
important to Adrian. I was glad that he was not only sitting alone in
front of his computer but to know that there are people out there that
estimate him and are his friends even if most of you did not know each
other personally.
The way you describe him (empathy, calm, insight, ... - just the Adrian
I know) assures me on how good friends of Adrian are out there. And I
will always continue to think of this (in a good way!) when continuing
to use debian (which I became quite fond of because of Adrian). 
It's a pity that he couldn't go to Banja Luca anymore which he did so
much look forward to. Anyway, I wish you all the best and hope you
continue your good work.

- Diana

The family asked for donations to AMICA Schweiz, a charity that helps women abused during the conflict in the Balkan countries. People argued about it on debian-private.

Two hundred Swiss francs is a trivial sum compared to the $120,000 given to lawyers and WIPO UDRP to stop people talking about the deaths.

Subject: Re: Death of Adrian von Bidder
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:56:04 +0200
From: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Hi,

I admit that e-mails about emotions tend to be turned into flames
and I do not want this here.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 07:24:59AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> I suggest that we donate 200 CHF from the project (price of a nice
> wreath with writing). If there are other donators, please get in
> touch with me.

The donators of the Debian project intend to spend money for the
development of the Debian project.  If we spend Debian money for a
wreath (or any form of replacement donation) this is not related to the
development of Debian.  It is rather *us* *people* who say goodby to
a friend.  So the money should not come from project funds but rather
from single developers.

Saying this I would like to vote against spending Debian money but
rather doing a separate collection.  I could live with some kind of "de
facto" collection like this:  I will ask for Debian money for DebConf.
In case Debian project money is really spended for Adrian's funeral I'd
simply ask for 10Euro less than I would have done otherwise.

Please do not get me wrong: I'm in any case for showing that the Debian
community is sad about the dead of Adrian.  But I'm not convinced that
this purpose is in the interest of our donators and it finally comes
quite cheap for us individuals to simply spend Debian money.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

-- 
http://fam-tille.de

In December 2011, Martin Krafft describes Debianism itself as a teenage culture. His fingers get a mention in the email signature:

Subject: Mooing solves everything
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:14:13 +0100
From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Reply-To: madduck@debian.org
Organization: The Debian project
To: debian private list <debian-private@lists.debian.org>

[Writing to -private with Reply-To set, because this is clearly
a classified topic]

We know about super cow powers and swallowed elephants, and the
power of the Mooing.

What I want to do is collect cow-related stories of relevance to our
project, to prevent an inside joke from dying as Debian prepares to
exit teenagehood.

So, please hit me. What does Debian have to do with mooing?

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 on the other hand, you have different fingers.

At the same time, in December 2011, a young transgender straight out of an elite French high school was given a paid job in a student-run Internet Service Provider, the CR@NS network at ENS Cachan. One of the older students, Debian Developer Nicolas Dandrimont, was dating this vulnerable young person at the same time as paying them and trying to help them get Outreachy money. Recall the original discussion about offering money for transgender participation many years prior. Offering these people moral support may be acceptable but offering large sums of "diversity" money at a point when they are unsure of their identity appears to be highly unethical.

On 31 March 2012, Jeremy Bicha requested to be authorised as a Debian Maintainer. His request received advocacies from Jordi Mallach and Martin Pitt.

Subject: DM application of Jeremy Bicha
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:58:41 -0400
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>,
Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>.

I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and
Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them.

Currently, I maintain the package kabikaboo
and I co‐maintain the GNOME packages with the Debian GNOME Team.

My GnuPG key EBFE6C7D is signed by the Debian Developer Andres Mejia.

I look forward to becoming a Debian Maintainer. Thanks for your attention.

Jeremy Bicha


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The first advocacy:

Subject: Re: DM application of Jeremy Bicha
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:58:40 +0200
From: Jordi Mallach <jordi@canonical.com>
Organization: SinDominio
To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
CC: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>, Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

Hello!

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer
> <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>.
> 
> I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and
> Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them.
> 
> Currently, I maintain the package kabikaboo
> and I co‐maintain the GNOME packages with the Debian GNOME Team.
> 
> My GnuPG key EBFE6C7D is signed by the Debian Developer Andres Mejia.
> 
> I look forward to becoming a Debian Maintainer. Thanks for your attention.

I've been silently waiting for this email to hit my inbox for some time
now, and I'm very, very happy Jeremy has taken this step forward.

Jeremy is an Ubuntu member and is very involved, as far as I can tell, in
Ubuntu Core packaging. For a long time, though, he has been working with
the Debian GNOME team, which helps us reduce the delta with Ubuntu, get
new blood in the team (something that's really appreciated) and generally
have another voice to discuss Debian←→Ubuntu matters wrt GNOME.

Jeremy is part of our team, and it's only natural he becomes (at least!) a
Debian Maintainer.

Jordi
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jordi@sindominio.net     jordi@debian.org     http://www.sindominio.net/
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The second advocacy:

Subject: Re: DM application of Jeremy Bicha
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 07:24:13 +0200
From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
CC: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org, Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>, Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>

Hello Jeremy,

Jeremy Bicha [2012-03-30 18:58 -0400]:
> This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer
> <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>.
> 
> I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and
> Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them.
> 
> Currently, I maintain the package kabikaboo
> and I co‐maintain the GNOME packages with the Debian GNOME Team.

I've seen your great activity in both Debian's and Ubuntu's GNOME
team. You have demonstrated the ability to deal with nontrivial
packaging situations, a sustained enthusiasm and dedication, and good
collaboration with upstream as well. I fully support your application
for DM, thanks!

Martin
-- 
Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)

On 15 May 2012, minutes of the GNOME Foundation tell us that Jeremy Bicha was one of six people given voting rights in the foundation. Many open source developers have never had the right to vote in any of these incorporated bodies. It appears that Jeremy Bicha was able to renew his membership and thereby maintain this status even during his subsequent prison term.

On 4 June 2012, Jeremy Bicha became part of the Masters of the Universe (MOTU) group in Ubuntu.

In April 2013, the Debianists decided to start offering money to young women under the disguise of Outreach Program for Women (OPW), which was later renamed to Outreachy. The Debian constitution explicitly says that contributors must be volunteers. Therefore, the payments to these young women are illegal under the constitution and may be illegal in other ways too.

...

3.2. Composition and appointment

Developers are volunteers who agree to further the aims of the Project insofar as they participate in it, and who maintain package(s) for the Project or do other work which the Project Leader's Delegate(s) consider worthwhile.

...

Here is one of the early advertising banners promoting the illegal payment of $4,500. The GNOME Foundation logo is on the woman's foot. It is an uncanny coincidence the logo strongly hints at the unison of male and female genitalia:

 

In July 2013, I publicly resigned from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) due to abuse of female asylum seekers from Iran. In the resignation email, which was leaked to Australian political news site Crikey, I compared the scandal to the Catholic abuse scandal. I think this may be the first time my name was on the public record as a supporter of victims. This was well before the Spotlight movie and the #MeToo phenomena, therefore, it can't be suggested that those latter revelations influenced the strong words used in my resignation in 2013.

In September 2013, Jeremy Bicha was convicted and sentenced to three years in a state prison. The state prison is a far more onerous punishment than the county jail where Jeffrey Epstein was briefly incarcerated. The duration of Jeremy Bicha's sentence is double the 18 month sentence imposed on Epstein.

At the sentencing, Bicha's defence lawyer asked the judge not to put his name on the list of registered sex offenders. This is a controversial topic. The police have also asked the judges not to automatically put every criminal like this on the list. The more pragmatic police commanders want these lists of registered sex offenders used for those pathological predators who never truly change their ways. Looking at the allegations against Bicha, he personally stopped offending at 15, during his childhood and there is no evidence he is committing similar crimes as an adult. To put it another way, if a child goes missing, the local police want to be looking at a list of the top twenty lifetime sex offenders who are dangerous enough to deserve a house call. If the police are confronted with a list of over a thousand registered sex offenders in their district they have no way to know which of those people to visit first.

In October 2013, WORLD published a report about the case with an emphasis on the failure of adults, including the parents, a pastor and a schoolteacher who all failed to help the sisters during their childhood.

The story was syndicated widely and an extract containing Bicha's name is on the Bishop-Accountability.org web site.

In Australia and other countries, the media is normally prohibited from publishing the names of juvenile offenders. In a way, the young boys are considered victims of their parents' failures. On that basis, they have a right to privacy equivalent to the rights of the abuse victims. Nonetheless, this type of restriction doesn't appear to be applicable in the United States. Nonetheless, if the local pastor and schoolteacher were not part of the story, it is unlikely the newspapers would publish the story at all.

In November 2013, Paul Tagliamonte sent the following message to the leaked debian-private email list. It concerns a young woman who applied for the OPW / Outreachy money. Why are these men always thinking about the age-of-consent when women are mentioned?

 
Subject: Re: OPW Student in Kingston, Jamaica
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:39:12 -0500
From: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org>
To: Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
CC: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 06:37:36PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, den 25.11.2013, 13:18 -0500 schrieb Paul Tagliamonte:
> > She's got a PhD, so I think this could also be a good beersigning, if
> > she drinks.
> 
> not having a PhD yet I wonder what expects me: Will I be a better
> drinker after I get the degree? Or a better keysigner? /me is confused.

It simply means she's likely of age in her jurisdiction. All I was
saying is that she's not a high school student.

Cheers,
  Paul

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On 16 January 2014, this appeared in a discussion about bug report 735031 (censorship):

 
Subject: Re: Bug#735031: lists.debian.org: arbitrary bans
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:44:29 -0500
From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> >> If you believe such language is acceptable, and within social norms,
> >> and you are sure you would be unhappy in a community which rejects
> >> these things, may I gently suggest you find another community?

> > is, to my mind, much ruder and more offensive than anything in either
> > Norbert Preining's message or the cited messages of Jordon Bedwell.

> No, it is not. Norbert took the liberty of comparing people to Pol
> Pot. Jordon made sexist comments about "teenage girls" or calling people
> "asses".

I once (after being with the project for many years) have been called a
"random guy" by another respectful DD, while I was trying to improve the
state of one of the packages in the archive.  I was offended, probably
even more than those teenage girls in a single random technical thread.

Should I also have sought him being banned?  I do not think so.

IMHO the balance here is too fragile, and excessive abstraction away
from the technical merits could IMHO hurt the project more than to help
our community (which is like a homeland and many other social entities
to me).

Just my 1cent
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Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834                       Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
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In April 2014, Manatee Glens Rape Crisis Center organised a march and the sister, Jennifer (Jen) Bicha gave a speech. News report about the march.

Around the same time, the GRACE web site published a report by Jennifer Bicha under the heading Sexually Assaulted in a Christian Home. They highlighted the following quote:

The next time you defend a predator and say, ’Oh, he was just a child,’ remember the faces of the innocent little ones whose childhood was stolen.

I have mixed feelings about that. It was not "just a child". As the judge told us, it was the child and the negligent adults together who left Jennifer Bicha to suffer this torture. Many other legal cases have made similar conclusions, including one high profile case where they recently decided parents were guilty when their child engaged in a schoolyard shooting spree.

On 3-4 May 2014, the first OSCAL conference took place in Tirana, Albania. ( Fedora wiki page). Photos released by the conference organizers suggest over eighty percent of the participants were young women. In every other country, we would normally see the gender statistics reversed. In Albania various theories have appeared about why large numbers of women came to these events. Some of the women have ended up moving to the city of Brno in the Czech Republic.

On 13 July 2014, Italian newspaper La Repubblica publishes a report about an interview between Pope Francis and editor Eugenio Scalfari. The late Pope Francis allegedly told Eugenio Scalfari that his own advisors have suggested that two percent is an accurate estimate of the number of priests who are paedophiles. He deplores their behaviour but on the other hand he insists it is no higher than the percentage of paedophiles in any other profession.

"Among the 2% who are paedophiles are priests, bishops and cardinals. Others, more numerous, know but keep quiet. They punish without giving the reason,"

"I find this state of affairs intolerable,"

The comment about punishments resonates with many of the Debianism scandals over the years.

Likewise, the two percent estimate can be applied to large free software organisations like Debianism and the FSFE misfits. These groups typically have a few hundred core participants and a few thousand loosely affiliated contributors. In the recent Debianism election, a thousand people were registered to vote. Two percent of that is twenty paedophiles.

Jennifer Bicha, sister of Jeremy Bicha, had sought help from an on-campus therapist and the support she received was very poor. The campus, Bob Jones University, undertook an investigation, culminating in the GRACE report. WYFF News interviewed Jennifer Bicha about her experience with Bob Jones University and other supports she had reached out to. She is also on Youtube for those who are geoblocked. The focus of these news reports is not really Jeremy Bicha himself but the failure to support victims. Nonetheless, Jeremy Bicha was regularly in news reports due to these wider circumstances. Therefore, it is shameful that he has come into GNOME, Ubuntu & Debianism without anybody having a public discussion about risk to victims.

The same news network published a detailed article on their web site.

Jennifer Bicha spoke at a fundraising event for the Julie Valentine Rape Crisis Center. This lead to another news report in Greenville Online. ( alternative link). Jeremy Bicha's name is not mentioned in this report.

In August 2015, according to reports from the high-profile hush-money trial, Donald Trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen and National Enquirer editor David Pecker had a meeting and agreed on a catch-and-kill plan. It was alleged that if any woman tried to sell a story about Donald Trump, Pecker would buy exclusive rights to the story and then keep the story hidden until after the election. Similar plots have been created in open source software communities. Debianists created the "anti-harassment" team. Fedora has a "Community Team". These teams pretend to listen to complaints. If a woman ever makes a complaint about one of the oligarchs or the men employed by the controlling corporations then the story is covered up. The woman who made the complaint will receive a polite response but she will not be invited to any more events. The same theme emerged in the Harvey Weinsten saga. Harvey Weinsten's team was afraid some women posed a risk. They told other movie producers to avoid the women and lock them out of the industry. Eventually, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson admitted he had excluded some actresses after receiving Harvey Weinsten's warnings to avoid them. This is the same phenomena described by Lunduke in his report Fedora's Code of Conduct: 200 Day Response Time, Only Protects You if Red Hat Likes You.

In November 2015, the movie Spotlight was released in cinemas. It is a biographical film based on the 2002 Spotlight investigation that exposed the phenomena of clerical abuse in Boston. A lot of Catholics and people from other religions have watched the film. In one of the key scenes in the movie, they discuss the research of Richard Sipe, who suggests that two percent of men in the general population are paedophiles but the rate in the Catholic abuse context is alleged to be six percent. Many people have speculated whether or not the figure is true and whether the church is really responsible for it or whether it is some factor out of their control.

There are approximately one thousand developers in Debianism today. If two percent are paedophiles that would be twenty men. We only know the identity of one, Jeremy Bicha. Who are the other nineteen? We have evidence about Elio Qoshi's underage girlfriend but in that case, Qoshi is not a Debian Developer so he is not in the same group for statistical purposes.

Looking at the culture of Debianism, it has some awkward similarities to the Catholic abuse crisis. Therefore, we need to consider the possibility that the percentage of Debian Developers who are paedophiles, like the percentage of priests, may be above the two percent average for the population. If six percent of Debian Developers are paedophiles, that is sixty paedophiles.

On 12 March 2016, Jeremy Bicha was released from prison under supervision / parole until 11 March 2021.

Subject: Jacob Appelbaum and harrassement
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:48:53 +0200
From: Mehdi Dogguy <leader@debian.org>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Hi all,

Jacob Appelbaum is currently facing some serious accusations in other
communities, and DAMs are aware of at least two Debian Developers who
have lived and have witnessed situations that are a clear case for
worry.

[ ... snip defamation crap ... ]

None of the emails really tells us what is a "clear case for worry", to this day, it is still not clear at all.

In contrast, the accusations against Jeremy Bicha were very clear. He is accused of abusing his little sisters and at least two other victims. He admitted these accusations too.

Notice it is a lot like the vendetta against Ted Walther from DebConf6. He never committed any crime but after somebody spread a rumour that his female friend was a prostitute, it took barely one hour for the whole conference dinner to turn against him and erupt into violence.

In both the case of Ted Walther (2006) and Dr Jacob Appelbaum (2006), the rogue Debianists have been far too arrogant to admit the rumours were falsified and give these men and their families the apology they deserve. Yet they are asking us to ignore the very real abuse convictions against Jeremy Bicha and welcome him with open arms.

In April 2017, Chris Lamb was elected for the first time as the leader of Debianism. One week later, the Fellowship elected me as their representative to the FSFE misfits in Berlin. From this point on, Chris Lamb appeared to be jealous and resentful that another Debian Developer was in a leadership position in the community. Today, we see a similar rivalry between the US President Donald Trump and the other American head of state, Pope Leo from Chicago. When women had complaints about certain oligarchs, they had a choice between going to Chris Lamb or telling me about it in my capacity as Fellowship representative. Women were coming to me with evidence about problems in the community. Some of the large corporations would have preferred to see those women reporting problems through channels controlled by the corporations.

On 11 May 2017, while on parole, Jeremy Bicha submitted an application to become a Debian Developer. The email advocacies are available online.

To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
Cc: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org, nm@debian.org, archive-184@nm.debian.org
Subject: Re: Jeremy Bicha: Declaration of intent
From: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 08:55:11 +0200

Hello!

I have personally worked with Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> in the
pkg-gnome team where he has been an outstanding contributor for a
sufficiently long time and I know jbicha having full unsupervised
unrestricted upload access to the archive would benefit us in the
team and likely also Debian as a whole on an even wider scale
than before.
I'm aware Jeremy is also very active in Ubuntu and GNOME upstream.
I find it that Jeremy is very good at interacting with upstream as
well as avoiding/resolving conflict or disagreeing opinions, which
means he has atleast two skills that I think we should have more
people like in Debian.

For any AM tasked to question Jeremy I would say you can skip
any regular packaging related questions. If you want to give
him some challange you might want to focus on a more complicated
philosophical question or ask him specifically about Debian
infrastructure and procedures related to those (as he mainly
uploads to Ubuntu and AFAIK has only very limited usaged his
DM privilegies because of the pkg-gnome streamlined sponsorship
workflow).

But to be frank, please consider just fast-forwarding jbicha through
the entire process because any potential knowledge-gap he might
have I'm more than sure we can discuss and handle those within
the pkg-gnome team which has many very experienced DDs that would
happily assist jbicha if needed.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

Here is the other advocacy:

To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
Cc: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>, nm@debian.org, archive-184@nm.debian.org
Subject: Jeremy Bicha: Advocate
From: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 09:25:12 -0000


I support Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>'s request to become Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Jeremy Bicha for quite some time, even if I sponsored just a few packages for him (in Debian).

His work is excellent, he really cares about keeping is packages in a good shape, he cares about transitions and he is quick in reacting when problems are found.

Debian will benefit a lot from his work.

I have personally worked with Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> (key 4D0BE12F0E4776D8AACE9696E66C775AEBFE6C7D) for X time,
and I know Jeremy Bicha can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.  

Thanks Jeremy for finally starting the process!

Gianfranco

Those are very positive things to write about somebody who has just been released from prison on parole.

Andreas Henriksson does not reveal his employer details or affiliation with Ubuntu, Canonical or GNOME. Gianfranco Costamagna reveals he works for Datalogic. They are based in the city of Bologna, Italy, the same city where Enrico Zini is located. Did Gianfranco Costamagna exercise any personal connections with Enrico Zini to have the Debian Account Managers approve the registered sex offender while he was still on parole?

On the weekend of 13 and 14 May 2017, the fourth OSCAL conference took place in Tirana, Albania. A girl of fifteen or sixteen years of age created an online profile for herself in the Discourse forum software used by the Albanian Open Labs group. We subsequently learnt this was the girlfriend of Elio Qoshi, one of the Albanian ringleaders.

 

Justin Flory, an employee of UNICEF who is closely affiliated with Red Hat, was pictured lying on the ground with Elio Qoshi at his feet.

 

Chris Lamb, then leader of Debianism, was pictured at the Red Hat table alongside Elio Qoshi.

 

At exactly the same time they are processing Jeremy Bicha's ordination as a Debian Developer, we saw Dominik George going through exactly the same process. Messages about Dominik George explicitly refer to children:

To: Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de>
Cc: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org, nm@debian.org, archive-175@nm.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dominik George: Declaration of intent
From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 14:09:15 +0000

Hi,

sorry for the delay in writing this…!

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:54:13PM -0000, Dominik George wrote:
> I would like to apply to change my status in Debian to Debian Developer, uploading.

yay, this is pretty good news for Debian and for Debian Edu and probably a
bunch of others! :-)

I've met Dominik the first time for "real" (*) at the Debian Edu gathering
in Oslo in December 2016 where I could see him working & discussing and also
learned a few things he does outside Debian, which also involves computers,
kids & schools.

(*) we've briefly bumped into each other before and said hi or so :)
    http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20161221-debian-edu-sprint-in-oslo/
    shows him wearing a DebConf15 t-shirt, so you might met him too ;)

Not related to Debian, but very much showing his dedications,
is that he is involved in another project with kids + young adults, which 
in the last years brought 20-30 young adults to the chaos communication congress:
https://www.teckids.org/hacknfun_2016_xmas.htm

The technical discussions we had in Oslo, plus the ones I've seen on IRC,
plus the questions he had and the attitudes he showed make me believe that
Dominik will be a great DD and contributor to our project and beyond! 

I cannot fully vouch for him technically, as we work on different areas in 
Debian Edu and I've only reviewed bits of his work, but I'm confident he'll
manage NM well! So I'm much looking forward to him becoming a DD!
 

-- 
cheers,
	Holger

 

On 29 May 2017, Jonathan Wiltshire of the Debian Account Managers team writes:

I will progress this application and assign an application manager shortly, but the key issues need to be resolved before the application can be finalised. Please work with your AM on that.

Where he writes "key issues", he is referring to issues with the PGP key. There is no reference to the abuse.

On 7 June 2017, Jeremy Bicha became a Core Dev in the world of Ubuntu.

On 8 August 2017, the Application Manager, Gunnar Wolf, who is also one of the Debian keyring managers, wrote the following:

Subject: Jeremy Bicha: Application Manager report
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 21:09:52 -0000
From: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>, archive-184@nm.debian.org,
nm@debian.org

I have reviewed Jeremy Bicha's answers for the NM process, and am more
than satisfied by them. I have also been approached in DebConf by his
team mates, who very strongly recommended him as a DD. I am of the
opinion the project will win quite a bit having him as a full DD with
unimpended upload rights.

Gunnar Wolf (via nm.debian.org)
-- 
https://nm.debian.org/process/184

People are cheering him on:

Subject: Re: Jeremy Bicha: Application Manager report
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 18:17:15 -0400
From: Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

On 8 August 2017 at 17:09, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> wrote:
> I have reviewed Jeremy Bicha's answers for the NM process, and am more
> than satisfied by them. I have also been approached in DebConf by his
> team mates, who very strongly recommended him as a DD. I am of the
> opinion the project will win quite a bit having him as a full DD with
> unimpended upload rights.

Yay! Congrats! :)

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew

From 14 to 18 July 2017, the Digital-Born Media Carnival was held in Kotor, Montenegro. Some of the women from open source software groups in Kosovo and Albania attended. Kotor is an ancient seaside village without any modern high-rise tourist accommodation. Visitors stay in bed and breakfast accommodation or holiday houses. On the last night of the carnival, there was a party by the waterside. The next morning, as we were departing, I saw one of the Albanian women coming out of a holiday house that had been rented by a group of men from another country. There was a bit of hand-holding and a kiss goodbye. Every time the woman is selected for an internship or a conference speaking opportunity, over and above every other woman in the community, I remember that last day in Kotor.

If you are involved in a sports club and you observe somebody had a one night stand with another member you might not feel any need to mention it or cause embarassment. However, open source software hobbyists are claiming to be a model of integrity, merit and security. Social engineering attacks are often rated as the biggest risk to modern organisations and their IT systems.

Shortly after that, the Open Labs non-profit in Albania had their birthday party in the hackerspace. At least two underage people were there and at least one of the other women identified them to me. Separately, women had told me that the youngest girl was dating the co-founder of the group Elio Qoshi. They told me a lot of things about Elio Qoshi, I observed some of those things with my own eyes and I observed written evidence in requests for travel funding that confirmed what the women had told me in person. Eighty percent of the group were female but a lot of the money did not go into the non-profit bank account. The money was managed by an accountant but there were rumours that the same accountant was also managing the bank accounts for Elio Qoshi consulting company. The women on the committee had never seen a balance sheet or a profit & loss statement for the non-profit entity.

In September 2017, they promoted an event called FOSSCamp. Instead of organising it in Albania, they decided to organise it in a more expensive destination, Greece and they asked bigger organisations to pay the travel expenses for a group of people, many of them who were simultaneously members of the non-profit but also employees of Elio Qoshi's commercial enterprise. Questioning them about the event budget, we reached the point where Elio Qoshi admitted that one of the amounts charged to the bigger organisations like Debian was really a payment for his effort organising the event. The women who collaborated on the organisation did not receive any equivalent payment. Yet each woman was asked to send a request to Debian, Mozilla, Wikimedia and maybe other organisations asking for diversity funds to pay the bus fares, ferry tickets, accommodation and management fee.

In the photos from the conference in May 2017, we could see over twenty young female students participating. Yet women told me that access to the trip to Greece was more tightly controlled. Women needed to get permission to join this trip.

Various people noticed that two or three men were acting as gatekeepers and rationing funding and travel opportunities for all the women. Chris Lamb and I were both warned that something dishonest was happening. I asked questions but Lamb didn't want to spoil whatever was going on there.

Here is an example where one of the men is giving one of the women, Anisa Kuci, permission to go on the trip to Greece:

Subject: Re: Debian at FOSScamp - funding request
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 19:01:58 +0300 (EEST)
From: Giannis Konstantinidis <giannis@konstantinidis.cc>
To: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, Silva Arapi <silva.arapi@gmail.com>
CC: leader@debian.org, treasurer@debian.ch, auditor@debian.org,
daniel@pocock.pro, Redon Skikuli <redon@skikuli.com>, ping@anisakuci.com

Hey everyone,
just wish to inform you that unfortunately, due to unforeseen external
factors, I won't be able to make it. I'd like to thank the Debian
community for the generous support. We will stay in touch.

To make sure Debian makes the maximum possible impact at FOSSCamp, I'd
like to sugggest Anisa Kuci (cc'ed ) takes my place. Anisa has been a
longtime experienced member of Open Labs Hackerspace, co-organized OSCAL
and is very much interested in further contributing to Debian.

Thanks once more. I wish the best success to Debian and your
participation FOSSCamp.

Kind regards,
-Giannis K.

Something was not right about this. It is clear that Chris Lamb, as the leader of Debianism, had been informed about it since this moment in time or earlier.

Some women see this type of thing as a sport and they actively seek to join organisations where they can take shortcuts. Other women were attracted by the promise of an educational or philosophical project, they contributed their time and skill helping one or two events in Albania and then discovered that to qualify for a trip abroad, they had to do the same things the girlfriends were willing to do. Some of the women felt even more strongly about this, as it impacts their professional relationships and job searching, they feel the male gatekeepers are blackmailing them for sex.

On 9 August 2017, looking at process 184 for Jeremy Bicha in the New Maintainer portal, we can see the process was frozen for review at the last minute. Yet this freeze was unblocked again less than three days later by Jonathan Wiltshire of the Debian Account Managers.

On 12 August 2017, minutes after the process was unfrozen, Jonathan McDowell added Jeremy Bicha's key to the Debian keyring.

In September 2017, Jeremy Bicha introduced himself on the debian-private (leaked) gossip network. He stated he is from Florida and presented himself as a victim of a woman called Irma (the hurricane):

Subject: 	Re: Irma
Date: 	Sun, 10 Sep 2017 13:52:08 -0400
From: 	Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: 	debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Sep 8, 2017 15:55, "Jeremy Bicha" <jbicha@debian.org> wrote:

    I intend to follow-up on this list on Monday to let you know I'm ok.


Monday is probably too optimistic because of widespread power outages, but I'll check in when I can.

Jeremy Bicha

On 20 September 2017, Elio Qoshi publishes a blog post about resigning as a Fedora Ambassador. Other volunteers did not receive any warning from Red Hat about Elio Qoshi's underage girlfriend and the complaints from other women.

On 12 October 2017 I sent Mozilla a protected whistleblower complaint about the harassment and underage issues. The date is 12 October 2017 so the misfits publishing alternative statements about harassment with dates later than this are lying. I have redacted the section that identifies underage victims. There were a series of interactions with Mozilla about the scandal. I was a witness and Elio Qoshi was clearly the suspect.

Subject: Open Labs / Tirana issues
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:15:17 +0200
From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
To: Larissa Shapiro <lshapiro@mozilla.com>
CC: Kristi Progri <kristi@kristiprogri.com>

Hi Larissa,

I understand you have received some feedback about issues in Tirana

I was there from 27 September - 5 October and observed some of the
troublesome behavior and the impact on people like Kristi.

The behavior towards Kristi and some of the other women is wrong.  I can
also see a danger that challenging the people or their behavior may
split the Open Labs group.  Nonetheless, I suggested to Kristi and Anisa
that they should put their own wellbeing first.

I sent a funding request to the Outreachy organizers to sponsor Kristi's
trip to Prishtina where she gave a talk at our Mini DebConf.  When I
mentioned this funding in the hackerspace, Redon queried this quite
strongly.  I don't feel it is any of his business though if I want to
recommend somebody for funding.  The following day, Kristi told me that
Redon had called her and shouted at her.  The shouting was apparently
witnessed by other women in the hackerspace with Redon.  I reported the fact there are problems in the Debian anti-harassment process.

Various people told me that travel sponsorship should be "shared" and
this attitude seems to be connected with Redon's behavior.

I've told Kristi that she did nothing wrong and did not deserve to be
shouted at.

Another problem that occurred to me is that one person who received

Mozilla travel funding, [ .. redacted ..], is 16 years old and is not
legally an adult.

[ .. redacted .. ]

Regards,

Daniel

The discussion continued. The underage risk was acknowledged on the Mozilla side:

Subject: Re: Open Labs / Tirana issues
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:12:14 +0200
From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
To: Emma Irwin <eirwin@mozilla.com>, Larissa Shapiro <lshapiro@mozilla.com>
CC: Kristi Progri <kristi@kristiprogri.com>

[ .. redacted .. ]

> I can comment on under-aged contributors - we do have those from time to
> time, and usually on trips at least parents or chaperon are required.
> 

Having underage contributors is not an issue itself and I have no
objection to that.

The issue arises when other groups or businesses align themselves with
local Mozilla groups and seek to benefit from those contributors.  I'm
not sure how to deal with that risk completely but there are probably
some things Mozilla could do in that area.

Regards,

Daniel

The discussion about underage continued in more emails:

Subject: Re: Open Labs / Tirana issues
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:27:24 +0200
From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
To: Larissa Shapiro <lshapiro@mozilla.com>, Emma Irwin <eirwin@mozilla.com>
CC: Kristi Progri <kristi@kristiprogri.com>

On 14/10/17 01:51, Larissa Shapiro wrote:
> I'm not sure, but I can seek legal advice on this matter. In my view,
> there is the potential there for other organizations to take advantage
> of these kids.
> 

Even if there is no legal problem (in some countries the laws are very
weak), there is also a risk to the reputation of Mozilla and free
software in general.

I wonder if there are other organizations concerned with children's
safety who can help free software organizations develop a reasonable
approach to this risk?

I realize no organization can stamp this out 100%, but there may also be
some little things that can be done to help reduce risk.  E.g. maybe
when Mozilla funds travel, requiring the parents to fill out a chaperon
form that must be submitted with receipts, so Mozilla gets the parent's
contact details and the parents see some child safety text on the form.
Somebody trustworthy could sporadically contact parents and the underage
contributors to sniff out any hints of trouble.

Regards,

Daniel

A few weeks later...

Subject: 	Re: Open Labs / Tirana issues
Date: 	Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:19:39 -0800
From: 	Emma Irwin <eirwin@mozilla.com>
To: 	Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>



Hi Daniel,

Would you be willing to talk to Marta (HR Investigator) and myself about Redon & Elio and your experiences and what you have witnessed?

Thank you

Having informed at least three other organisations who funded this racket, including Debian and Mozilla, my conscience is clean. Nobody can accuse me of protecting an abuser.

On 25 February 2018, Jeremy Bicha submits an advocacy for another Ubuntu developer, Tim Lunn to become a Debian Developer:

Subject: Tim Lunn: Advocate
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:07:40 -0000
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Tim Lunn <tim@feathertop.org>, archive-455@nm.debian.org

For https://nm.debian.org/process/455/ on 25 February 2018 :
I support Tim Lunn <tim@feathertop.org>'s request to become Debian
Maintainer.

I first started working with Tim in 2012 on packaging for the Ubuntu GNOME
project. Without Tim, Ubuntu GNOME would not have survived.

Tim and I have been interested for a while in reducing the diff and
duplication of work between Debian and Ubuntu with GNOME packages. Tim
getting upload rights to these packages will help with this goal and will
help make Debian GNOME better for our users.

I have personally worked with Tim Lunn <tim@feathertop.org>
(key 0E0880479A6F1063372395275B39C0A1153ACABA) for several years, and I
know Tim Lunn can be trusted to have upload rights for their own packages,
right now.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Tim Lunn's page on the Ubuntu wiki suggests he is from Australia. We will find out later about his proximity to a murder trial.

In early March 2018, I posted a message in the Albanian open labs forum asking why some of the money from the non-profit Open Labs group was being diverted to a private company, Ura Design, controlled by Elio Qoshi. I had observed the women were doing all the work for free in the non-profit association but some of the men were getting financial benefits out of that work.

The Albanian ringleader Elio Qoshi admits complaining to Chris Lamb, leader of Debianism, to help cover up the conflicts of interest. In fact, the relationship between Open Labs and Ura Design was analogous to the relationship between Debian and Freexian. Although in this case, it was worse, because there was also the underage problem. Would the leader of Debianism put the protection of an Albanian pimp with an underage girlfriend ahead of the work done by a real Debian Developer?

Subject: 	[English] FOSScamp 2017 @ Syros, Greece
Date: 	Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:16:45 +0000
From: 	Elio Qoshi <info@openlabs.cc>
Reply-To: 	Open Labs Hackerspace Forum <forum+ecf37220dfcc7e2ec1a56392b7b00781@openlabs.cc>
To: 	daniel@pocock.pro

[ ... snip ... ]

I will try to keep this short but I’m not sure how much I will succeed in that, as this will definitely be the last reply from my side here. I have reached out to the Debian Project Leader to close this issue once and for all.

[ ... snip ... ]

On 5 March 2018 I wrote to women from Albania asking them to share copies of evidence about Elio Qoshi hurting and exploiting women. The Debianism leader Chris Lamb immediately barged in with the comments:

Subject: Re: "free travel"
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:40:00 +0000
From: Chris Lamb 
To: Daniel Pocock , Anisa Kuçi 
CC: leader@debian.org, larjona@debian.org, antiharassment@debian.org

[Adding antiharrassment to CC]

Daniel Pocock wrote:

> If Elio or anybody else has made any other comments like this on the 
> private members channel or Telegram and you want to discuss them with me 

[..]

Anisa, please feel to drop Daniel from any replies you wish to make, if
you even wish to do so.

(Daniel, thank you for your concern but we have got it from this point
onwards. There will be no need for you to reply further on this thread.)


Regards,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

This is the catch-and-kill strategy that had been described earlier. When women had a story about Donald Trump, they were encouraged to give the story to the National Enquirer and not talk to anybody else. What we see is the leader of Debianism knew about Elio Qoshi and he didn't want me, as the Fellowship representative, making an independent assessment of the underage scandal.

In the Catholic abuse crisis many senior cardinals and bishops are alleged to have known about abuse and failed to protect people. In the specific case of Gerald Ridsdale described earlier, one of the victims, his nephew David Ridsdale told the Royal Commission that the late Cardinal George Pell had offered him a bribe for silence. The woman corresponding with Chris Lamb and I was Anisa Kuci. She was given a series of free trips around the world, internships and eventually a job at GNOME.

Chris Lamb was observed to be close to Neil McGovern who was the Executive Director of GNOME in that era. Are we to believe neither of those men knew that a member of the Debian GNOME packaging team was a registered sex offender being put onto the Debianism keyring during Chris Lamb's tenure as leader?

At the time of that exchange, Anisa Kuci ignored Chris Lamb's condescending words and replied in full:

Subject: 	Re: "free travel"
Date: 	Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:51:28 +0100
From: 	Anisa Kuci <anisakuci9@gmail.com>
To: 	larjona@debian.org
CC: 	Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>,
leader@debian.org, antiharassment@debian.org


Hello Chris, Daniel, Laura,

Thank you very much for being so supportive.

I read the comments on the thread and to be honest I am really sad that
Elio [Qoshi] said that. It is not true at all.

They (Elio [Qoshi] & Redon) pretend to support women but on the other hand their
behavior towards many of us shows the opposite.

Daniel I feel bad because you have encouraged and helped not only me,
but so many other people, no matter if they are Open Labs members or
not, and also all the attendees from Kosova to learn new things, to work
and improve their skills and knowledge. They are doubting your good
intentions just to remove the attention from the shady things that they
are doing.

The free travel comment is really offensive to me and i feel it should
be offensive to every woman who is part of the community.
I have been contributing and supporting Open Labs since its early days,
and I have put a lot of effort and time, I do this because I believe in
what it is meant to stand for and without waiting something in exchange,
but the situation lately has been not very positive. Daniel has been
present by chance in few cases where situations have been very hard to
go through.

I would definitely like to talk to any of you and tell you more about
everything that is happening here, its fine to me whether it is a video
call, call or just emails.
Please tell me what would be more convenient to you.

King greetings,
Anisa

On 17 March 2018, Jeremy Bicha pushes an update to hyperkitty and it includes collaboration with Jonas Meurer and Pierre-Elliott Bécue. The latter was an employee of ANSSI, the French government's agency for cybersecurity. Did Bécue realize Jeremy Bicha was on parole or was he blinded by all the fanfare about diversity?

Subject: [ubuntu/bionic-proposed] hyperkitty 1.1.4-4 (Accepted)
From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@bicha.net>
Date: Sat Mar 17 17:49:53 UTC 2018

hyperkitty (1.1.4-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Jonas Meurer ]
  * d/control:
    - Don't recommend mailman3, recommend mailman3-web instead.

  [ Pierre-Elliott Bécue ]
  * d/rules:
    - Remove the embedded fonts that are in other packages. Same for
      bootstrap.js{,.min}
    - Add upstream's changelog to the package
    - Move django's static files in /usr/share/python-django-hyperkitty
  * d/control:
    - Add dependency on the font/js packages required by the rules change
  * wrap-and-sort
  * Add d/s/lintian-overrides to give intel on the current python3 missing
    package status.

Date: 2018-03-17 04:30:11.786430+00:00
Signed-By: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@bicha.net>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hyperkitty/1.1.4-4

In April 2018, according to a report in Business Insider, there was a meeting between IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty and Jim Whitehurst, who was CEO of Red Hat. This lunch has been identified as the moment both companies were put on the trajectory for a merger.

In May 2018, immediately after that lunch, the FSFE misfits modified their constitution to remove the elections for Fellowship representatives. I was the last person elected as a Fellowship representative before the democracy was trashed. The FSFE misfits count Google and Red Hat as significant sponsors and they didn't want the Fellows to have a voice if that voice may not be identical to the voice of the corporate overlords.

In June 2018, the women from Albania were offered sponsorship for travel to DebConf18 in Taiwan. For the cost of transporting one woman from Albania to Taiwan, you could transport five women from countries that are much closer in south-east Asia.

When male interns are offered the same sponsorship funds to attend DebConf, they are asked to pay for the flights themselves and then wait until after the conference to get reimbursement. There are examples of email from male interns still waiting for their money three or four months after the conference. The women from Albania told the Debianists somebody has to buy the tickets for them, in advance. Martin Michlmayr, the treasurer, did just that:

Subject: Re: [rt.debian.org #7328] DebConf travel pre-payment requests
From: Martin Michlmayr
Time: Fri Jun 29 08:56:42 2018

* Hector Oron [2018-06-28 10:55]:
> I added Martin to the list, he'll be taking care of flight ticket
> purchase if you send him flight details.

This has been taken care of.

--
Martin Michlmayr
https://www.cyrius.com/

Here is an example from a male intern who was waiting for payment long after DebConf15 finished:

Subject: Re: [Soc-coordination] DebConf travel / GSoC student payments?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:25:18 +0530
From: Komal Sukhani <komaldsukhani@gmail.com>
To: Michael Schultheiss <schultmc@spi-inc.org>
CC: treasurer@spi-inc.org, soc-coordination@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi Michael,

I still don't got the DebConf travel reimbursement. Have you made the payment?

Sorry for trouble.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Michael Schultheiss <mailto:schultmc@spi-inc.org> wrote:

    Apologies for the delays in payments. I should have the payments processed this week and payments shoud be received in approximately 1-2 weeks.

Pictures appeared during the conference showing us Lior Kaplan from Israel with his arm around a young woman. This is the same woman who had her ticket purchased in advance.

 

 

In July 2018 Enrico Zini gave a talk titled "Multiple People" at DebConf18 in Taiwan. There have been a series of these talks over the years where these men seek out introverted young male developers who lack confidence. Remember the case of the young French transgender recruited straight out of high school. This slide appears to be telling us that paedophiles and registered sex offenders are welcome:

Spectrum (Enrico Zini)

Every color is ok.

Think about who you are,
not about who you should be.

 

In July 2018, Debianists were having a discussion about whether the weboob package should remain in Debian or be removed. Here is one of the private emails about it. Notice they want to remove the package that makes vague references to female anatomy but they welcomed the guy who is on parole for sex crime against his little sisters.

Subject: Re: weboob package
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:24:28 +0200
From: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 14:48 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Colin Watson writes ("Re: weboob package"):
> > (I haven't decided what I think should be done about it; certainly
> > if I
> > were the maintainer I'd want to disassociate myself from it as
> > quickly
> > as possible ... but the quoted text is a terrible argument.)
> 
> Quite.
> 
> What on earth could one do as the maintainer of such a thing ?  Write
> some kind of machinery (a git-filter-branch construction maybe) to
> automatically rename all this arseholery ?

Oh, come on.  It's not like they liken setting up an interrupt handler
with rape like, for example, Xen does.  I would certainly think less of
those who associate themselves with this kind of thing.

There is no incest sex involved either (unlike for example [1]). No
glorification of genocide, ethnical cleansings or such either (same
file as [1]).  (Hmm, I wonder what happens when one submits a patch for
that...)

Sadly we are associated with it, by virtue of packaging it, and thus
promoting it. And I'm ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with
such hateful content.

> I also note that the upstream webpage lists the logos of a number of
> companies, which I hope have some kind of corporate
> not-looking-like-a-total-wazzock policy.  I CBA to complain to them,
> but maybe someone would like to start a fire on Twitter.

Yes, please go and start a nice shitstorm. A great idea, brilliant.

Ansgar

  [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/bible-kjv/4.30/bible.rawtext/#L495

One of those in favor of the weboob package was Axel Beckert from the elite Swiss university ETH Zurich:

Subject: Re: weboob package
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:29:58 +0200
From: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> [ ETH Zurich ]
Organization: The Debian Project
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Hi,

Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Yesterday I stumbled across the "weboob" package for the first time,
> which includes a slew of binaries with names similar to the following:
[...]

So what? I don't see any problem with that. (And I don't see why
there's a thread on debian-private about it.)

		Regards, Axel
-- 
 ,''`.  |  Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/
: :' :  |  Debian Develoober, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin
`. `'   |  4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329  6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
  `-    |  1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486  202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE

Jeremy Bicha himself weighed in on the discussion after Ansgar brought up the incest:

Subject: Re: weboob package
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:53:32 -0400
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: ansgar@debian.org
CC: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:24 AM Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> wrote:
> There is no incest sex involved either (unlike for example [1]). No
> glorification of genocide, ethnical cleansings or such either (same
> file as [1]).  (Hmm, I wonder what happens when one submits a patch for
> that...)
>
> Sadly we are associated with it, by virtue of packaging it, and thus
> promoting it. And I'm ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with
> such hateful content.

Please stop.

At a minimum, if you are serious about removing Bible texts from
Debian, please start a separate thread instead of derailing this
topic. But I think you may have trouble finding consensus for that
viewpoint and I expect it will stir up lots of conflict.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

This is the reality of the so-called diversity in Debianism: gay male employees in a range of companies and universities discussing female anatomy with a registered sex offender during their working hours.

Dr Richard Stallman (RMS) was accused of participating in some unpleasant discussions when he was at MIT. Yet the debian-private discussions, where university staff rub shoulders with Jeremy Bicha, while he is still on parole, appear to be far more scandalous. Why do the snobby people attack Dr Richard Stallman (RMS) but go out of their way to protect Jeremy Bicha, the registered sex offender?

In September 2018, I completely resigned from my role as Fellowship representative to the FSFE misfits. I discontinued all involvement with the group and I encouraged other people to resign too. Therefore, as I resigned and made the resignation public, there was no way I had any involvement in the subsequent scandals with women hired in 2019. Those women were only hired after I resigned. All the complaints made by women concern psychological abuse from Matthias Kirschner.

On 28 October 2018, Red Hat announced the merger with IBM. The developers who got shares very early thanks to the 1999 share offer, which excluded the teenage volunteers, made a lot of money. It looks like they didn't want reports from the Albanian female whistleblowers to become a public news story and undermine the $34 billion price tag for the transaction.

In November 2018, the Wayback Machine captured a snapshot of the team in Elio Qoshi's private company Ura Design. We can see the underage girl, who may be 17 by this point in the story, is now being paid to be a system administrator. System administrators normally have access to all the data in a company, including the emails of their own bosses and their colleagues. In small IT companies like this the director normally keeps the system administrator powers for himself. It is worth remembering the incident from the team St Kilda in Australian football. One of the players was dating the woman known as the St Kilda schoolgirl, Kimberley Ametoglou (Kim Duthie). Kim was not really from St Kilda, she was from Frankston, like Julian Assange. She expertly extracted all the nude photos of the players from her boyfriend's computer and published them in what came to be known as dikileaks. It seems highly unlikely Elio Qoshi was giving his underage girlfriend access to all his files and emails. In practice, this appears to be a case of privilege escalation. The men would put the pictures of the young women on a web site like this to help the women create an online profile. The women would apply to bigger organisations for travel grants and speaking opportunities at community conferences.

 

This is a photo from the OSCAL conference in Albania in 2016. There are so many more women than men in the photo. What is the real reason more women than men were coming to the OSCAL conferences? Young female students in Albania earn approximately ten euros per day working in shops and restaurants. Did somebody pay these girls to attend conferences and make it look like a real community? One of the women was told that an Outreachy internship would be too difficult for her but one of the men offered to help her submit the application if she gave him half the salary.

 

Early in 2019, the FSFE misfits hired two women, Susanne Eiswirt and Galia Mancheva. Within a year, Matthias Kirschner had sacked them both again. Galia Mancheva took him to court and wrote a damning testimony about the culture of psychological abuse in the FSFE "community":

Even after my lawyer warned him to terminate all attempts to communicate with me and send someone else to pick up my work laptop, he came in person to my house, and was very irritated that I was not alone.

What these incidents reveal is the oligarchs in these groups have come to view the volunteers and the female subordinates as possessions. The oligarchs feel they have some God-given authority to make decisions about the lives of those around them.

Here is a picture of Matthias Kirschner with the young girls in Albania:

 

 

In late 2018 or early 2019 one of the Albanian female whistleblowers was given a job at the GNOME Foundation. Kristi Progri has been a member of the committee in the non-profit Open Labs hackerspace in Albania. She had been one of the organisers of the OSCAL conferences. She seems to know the identity of every man who visited Albania for these conferences. She knows the age of every young woman who participated in the conferences. Ever since she started received a salary from GNOME Foundation, there has been no more evidence about Elio Qoshi and the underage relationships.

 

In 2019, Google decided to reduce the salaries for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) interns from $6,000 down to as little as $3,000 based on each intern's country and a formula for purchasing power parity. However, the parallel Outreachy internships, which only pay money to single young women and don't require the women to write any code, have continued increasing their salaries a little bit almost every year. For example, a slim and attractive single young woman in Russia, eastern Europe, India or Brazil is offered $3,000 to participate in Google Summer of Code but if the same woman wins an Outreachy

internship, she gets $6,000 and a lot of free trips.

In February 2019, journalist Frederic Martel released his book In the Closet of the Vatican. He alleges that eighty percent of priests in the Vatican are homosexual. In some open source software groups, including Debianism, we seem to be looking at a prevelance of homosexuality that is higher than what is normal for the community at large.

Most gay men are not paedophiles. It is wrong to suggest they would be. Nonetheless, when a group presents itself as gay-friendly or when a group provides an opportunity for gay men to gain more respect from society, as is the case with both the Catholic church and Debianism, paedophiles appear to be attracted to the same group. Therefore, we have to be even more vigilante.

In June 2019, the diversity crowd hijacked the Debian web site and replaced the logo colours with the colours for Pride month. The majority of developers did not consent to this:

To: debian-project@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian supports pridemonth?
From: Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:48:18 +0200

Hello all,
I've just seen this on https://micronews.debian.org/ :

"In support of #pridemonth, Debian changes its website logo. The
Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone
https://www.debian.org/intro/diversity "

May I please ask who decided that and where was it discussed? (I can't
find anything about it at least on -project.)

I do not think that this is appropriate. Welcoming diversity is one
thing, supporting pridemonth is another thing. Pridemonth is a set of
events with a definite political connotation. I don't think that
Debian should take sides on any specific political issues (except of
course issues that have a relation to free software), especially if
that hasn't been discussed at large among project members and there
isn't a clear consensus.

Is it just me (and am I being blatantly wrong, if so please enlighten
me) or do others share my concern?

Thanks
Gerardo

(Not subscribed, please keep me Cc:d)

It feels creepy when these things happen. The people who do these things don't care about consent. They feel that what is good for them is good for everybody else too.

In the US Civil Rights movement, there were groups like the Black Panthers who were very similar to the Zizian diversity gang in open source software communities. These people do as they please and they don't care about the law or the impact on the lives of those they hurt.

In July 2019, the Debianism annual conference DebConf19 was in Brazil. At the conference dinner, the leader of Debianism, Chris Lamb, had four women from Albania and Kosovo seated next to him.

 

Why did they want so many women from Albania and Kosovo to visit DebConf two years in a row? Was it some kind of bribe or hush money arrangement to prevent further discussion about the former Fedora Ambassador, who had been photographed with Chris Lamb in 2017?

On 2 August 2019, Molly de Blanc was invited to give a keynote speech at FrOSCon in Germany. It is rumoured that Molly de Blanc was the girlfriend of former Debianism leader Chris Lamb, a.k.a., Mollamby.

In her talk, she displays a hand-drawn slide where we can see three selfish people like herself pushing one of the developers. This is how the selfish people get things without paying for them. They use gossip and violence, just like the fight at DebConf6.

Molly de Blanc: Well we can use our collective power to push others

 

On 10 August 2019, Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his prison cell.

In August 2019, the GNOME annual conference GUADEC was organised in the city of Thessaloniki in the north of Greece. It is very close to Albania and women from the nearby Balkan countries were brought to the conference on busses.

On 17 September 2019, Dr Sally Muytjens completed her PhD thesis on the topic An exploration of the existence of clergy child sexual abuse dark networks within the Victorian Catholic Church. It is extremely relevant to the phenomena we see today in Debianism. Various people have publicly praised a registered sex offender and helped him recycle his reputation at exactly the same time they are trashing the reputations of honest developers. The blackmail tactics they use, the games they play with the vocabulary of abuse and the way they operate in packs to reinforce their worldview all resonate with the scandals the church has been working so hard to move away from.

In the context of police corruption networks, this code of silence extended to “prohibiting disclosing perjury or other misconduct by fellow officers, or even testifying truthfully if the facts would implicate the conduct of a fellow officer” (Chin and Zhang 2008, 238). Merrington (2017, 61) found that police corruption networks exploit the light network’s resources to facilitate DN operations. Research on a sports doping network showed that protecting the network included inflicting harm through bribery, bullying and threats and enforced a code of silence (USADA 2012 cited in Bell, TenHave and Lauchs 2016, 60). A code of silence or omerta was created by the Italian mafia and is applied to mafia members and anyone who witnesses mafia criminal activity to ensure silence regarding their illicit activities (UNODC 2008 cited in Bell, Ten-Have and Lauchs 2016). Omerta extended to a refusal to give evidence to the police (Fielding 2017,17). Similar methods were utilised by clergy perpetrator networks within the Victorian Catholic Church to maintain silence and, hence, resilience of the network of clergy CSA.

The 80,000 messages on debian-private and similar archives in the FSFE misfits, GNOME and Mozilla are analogous to the code of silence in other institutions.

In the Albanian scandal, the unpaid female volunteers were asked to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) even before they were abused. In other contexts, such agreements only appear after the abuse and during negotiation of the settlement.

In November 2019, Anisa Kuci, the Albanian woman who was seated closest to Chris Lamb at the DebConf19 conference dinner was awarded a $6,000 Outreachy internship. The woman had previously worked as a waitress and had no software development experience.

 

Remember the teenage boys doing unpaid work to bootstrap Debianism back in the 1990s. Joel "Espy" Klecker, Shaya Potter and Chris Rutter. They did a huge amount of technical work, they received no payments and some of them died. When these women from eastern Europe arrived people started popping champagne and opening the chequebook:

 

 

 

In January 2020, Joerg Jaspert from the Debian Account Managers cyberbullies was appointed as a parent representative at Dalbergschule in Fulda, Germany. Is it appropriate for any Debian Developer to have such a role in a school, even as a volunteer, while the organisation is refusing to discuss the concerns about their registered sex offender?

 

At the end of August 2020, we saw Matthew Garrett went wild spreading false accusations that Dr Jacob Appelbaum is a rapist, all the while, Debianists were protecting a real rapist.

Matthew Garrett spread dozens of message like this without any evidence:

Subject: Re: expulsions vs Reproducible Builds
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:52:17 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Reply-To: discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu
To: discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:26:40AM +0200, Debian Community News Team wrote:

> a) The different approaches taken to complaints about Appelbaum and
> Lange, even though both complaints arrived at the same time.

One of these complaints involved multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault. The other involved an accusation of aggressive and disrespectful behaviour. Do you believe that these things are equivalent?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

Subject: Re: expulsions vs Reproducible Builds
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 00:40:21 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Reply-To: discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu
To: discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 05:59:46PM -0500, quiliro wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> writes:
> > The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not require that a 
> > volunteer organisation grant membership to a rapist, even if said rapist 
> > has not been found guilty in a court of law.
> Are you aserting that Jacob Appelbaum is guilty or are you talking about
> someone else? If you cannot prove something, it is a lie.

I am asserting that he's a rapist, an assertion that is backed up by an array of publicly available evidence.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

These people think that by forming together like a pack of dogs and repeating the same rumour over and over again they can trick the whole world to believe it.

One of the reason dishonest people like Matthew Garrett make such outrageous lies is to cover up the fact the "diversity" team was bringing real paedophiles into the world of open source software. This is a classic trick that every junior magician knows: make the audience look in some other direction while you discretely move around the evidence.

At some point in 2021, Elio Qoshi joined Canonical Ltd, the company making Ubuntu, as an employee. It looks like he was employed there for a number of years but eventually they removed him in about 2025. They didn't make any comment about why he was terminated. It looks like it happened around the same time they eventually cut ties with Jeremy Bicha in 2025. Here is a screenshot of his LinkedIn profile when he was in Canonical Ltd:

 

On 11 March 2021, Jeremy Bicha parole period finished at about the same time the Albanian joined Canonical Ltd. An uncanny coincidence indeed.

Between July and October 2021, the web site of Justin Flory told us he was living in Albania (Wayback Machine snapshot). Shortly after that, Justin W Flory changed his name to Justin W Wheeler, changed his employer from UNICEF to Red Hat and removed the reference to Albania from his blog.

Why are the companies supporting the Albanians like this? Quite simply, Elio Qoshi knows the identity of every male developer who visited the conferences in Albania. He knows who they spoke to. Most men who look for a wife in these countries are looking for an adult. If one or two men were looking for something less than legal then they may well have asked Elio Qoshi, who had his own underage girlfriend, to help them find what they wanted. He is one of the few people who would know who those men are and what they did. The controlling corporations don't know what he knows and they probably don't want to know either. But what they do know is that as long as he is on somebody's payroll, the secrets will stay buried.

Late in 2021, the FSFE misfits announced a program called Youth Hacking for Freedom (YH4F) to recruit underage people between thirteen and seventeen years of age to work for free. Having resigned from the FSFE, I had grave concerns for the welfare of children and I published the blog Google, FSFE & Child Labor.

Shortly after that, IBM Red Hat began a legal case to seize the domain name WeMakeFedora.org. They used my blog Google, FSFE & Child Labor as their evidence that I was publishing "critical commentary". The legal panel ruled in my favor and moreover, ruled that IBM Red Hat was using the legal process to harass me. See the legal documents here. In hindsight, now that everybody knows the truth about Elio Qoshi and Jeremy Bicha, people can see that I had good reason to publish the grave concerns I have about the FSFE misfits recruiting children to do unpaid work.

In January 2022, Canonical, the company of Mark Shuttleworth, decided to employ Jeremy Bicha. It is not clear if he was previously being paid as a subcontractor while in prison or on parole. It appears that the move to permanent employment coincided with the end of his parole period in 2021. Did the company know he was on parole while interacting with their developers?

In February 2022, people noticed the speaker profile for Elio Qoshi had been removed from the web site of the FOSDEM conference. No explanation was given. When FOSDEM removed him, other volunteers were never officially warned about the issues with underage girls and harassment.

On 14 June 2022, Anisa Kuci, the waitress from Albania who sat next to Chris Lamb at the DebConf19 conference dinner is given voting rights in the GNOME Foundation. Many real developers do not have voting rights in these associations and foundations. The oligarchs appear to be stacking the associations with personal friends who will vote for the same oligarchs to keep their positions on the board every year.

The woman eventually appears to become an employee of the association as well. However, it is not clear if she was on the payroll at the time the oligarchs made her a voting member.

 

From 20 to 25 July 2022, GNOME's annual conference GUADEC is in Mexico during the same week that DebConf22 is in Kosovo. The two women from Albania could take the bus to Kosovo for fifteen euros each but somebody buys them tickets for flights from Albania to Mexico. The money paid for these flights could have been used to buy bus tickets for twenty more women from local universities in central American countries close to Mexico.

In his DebConf22 profile, with three talks, Jeremy Bicha tells us:

Jeremy is a member of the Debian GNOME and Canonical Desktop teams. He lives in Florida and this will be the first DebConf he has attended. [in the year after his probation finished]

 

Fact checking, over 20,000 women in Kosovo reported being victim of rape as a war crime back in the late 1990s.

Many of the young women I met at events in Kosovo appear to have been born at the time of the war.

 

On 11 September 2022, the anniversary of a notorious terror attack, Axel Beckert asked the Swiss police to take sides with Jeremy Bicha, Elio Qoshi and all help cover up the death of Adrian von Bidder on our wedding day because his wife wanted to be Mayor of Basel.

The abuse details can be found in a report that Amnesty International prepared about the case of Trevor Kitchen:

Trevor Kitchen, a 41-year-old British citizen resident in Switzerland, was arrested by police in Chiasso (canton of Ticino) on the morning of 25 December 1992 in connection with offences of defamation and insults against private individuals. In a letter addressed to the Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police in Berne and to the Tribunal in Bellinzona (Ticino) on 3 June 1993 he alleged that two police officers arrested him in a bar in Chiasso and, after handcuffing him, accompanied him to their car in the street outside. They then bent him over the car and hit him around the head approximately seven times and carried out a body search during which his testicles were squeezed. He claimed he was then punched hard between the shoulder blades several times. He said he offered no resistance during the arrest.

He was then taken to a police station in Chiasso where he was questioned in Italian (a language he does not understand) and stated that during the questioning "The same policeman that arrested me came into the office to shout at me and hit me once again around the head. Another policeman forced me to remove all of my clothes. I was afraid that they would use physical force again; they continued to shout at me. The one policeman was pulling at my clothes and took my trouser belt off and removed my shoe laces. Now I stood in the middle of an office completely naked (for 10 minutes) with the door wide open and three policemen staring at me, one of the policemen put on a pair of rubber surgical gloves and instructed me to crouch into a position so that he could insert his fingers into my anus, I refused and they all became angry and started shouting and demonstrating to me the position which they wanted me to take, laughing, all were laughing, these police were having a good time. They pointed at my penis, making jokes, hurling abuse and insults at me, whilst I stood completely still and naked. Finally, when they finished laughing, one of the policemen threw my clothes onto the floor in front of me. I got dressed."

He was transferred to prison some hours later and in his letter claimed that during the night he started to experience severe pains in his chest, back and arms. He asked a prison guard if he could see a doctor but the request was refused and he claimed the guard kicked him. He was released on 30 December 1993. Medical reports indicated that since his release he had been experiencing recurrent pain in the area of his chest and right shoulder and had been receiving physiotherapy for an injury to the upper thoracic spine and his right shoulder girdle.

Volunteers discovered over $120,000 was taken out of Debian bank accounts and used for legal fees to try and have me molested or killed. Why did they spend so much money on this vendetta? They are terrified about people who express concern about abuse. They paid $120,000 in legal fees because they feel more comfortable with Jeremy Bicha, the man who raped his little sisters, than with the independent volunteer elected by the Fellowship in 2017.

On 13 October 2022, the GNOME board minutes tell us they decided to add Jeremy Bicha to the Release Team.

In November 2022, Jeremy Bicha writes an advocacy for Matthias Geiger to become a Debian Maintainer:

Subject: Matthias Geiger: Advocate
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:26:16 -0000
From: Jeremy Bicha (via nm.debian.org) <nm@debian.org>
Reply-To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org, Matthias Geiger
  <matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>, archive-1128@nm.debian.org,
  Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Matthias Geiger <matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>,
  archive-1128@nm.debian.org, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

For nm.debian.org, at 2022-11-10:
I support Matthias Geiger <matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>'s request to
become a Debian Maintainer.

I have sponsored numerous uploads for Matthias including 6 new source
packages. He has prepared many new packages with a particular focus on
GNOME apps and Rust libraries to build GNOME apps. Creating new packages
is one of the more complex packaging tasks for Debian. His work has been
consistently high quality. We have also worked together to improve the
initial packaging.
Beyond packaging skills, Matthias has been pleasant to communicate with.

I have personally worked with Matthias Geiger
<matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>
(key C2E1A6CBFDECE511A8A4176D18BD106B3B6C5475) for 7 months, and I know
Matthias Geiger
can be trusted to have upload rights for their own packages, right now.

Jeremy Bicha (via nm.debian.org)

In January 2023, the late Cardinal George Pell, former treasurer of the Vatican, appeared in news reports from Rome talking about the death of Pope Benedict. The news reports prompted me to look at the unredacted Case Study 35 about the Archdiocese of Melbourne. I was shocked to see the similarities to the Debianism culture and social engineering attacks. I printed a lot of the evidence about Enrico Zini blackmailing and defaming people over so many years. On 10 January 2023, I drove across the Great St Bernard Pass to Aosta in Italy. I walked in to the Carabinieri station and explained the similarities between the exploitation of victims in Debianism and in the Catholic abuse crisis. In the same hour that I was in the Carabinieri station, as a witness to these crimes, unbeknownst to me, Cardinal George Pell was having surgery in Rome. He died four or five hours later.

Authorities in Australia pretended the crisis died with Cardinal George Pell. He had avoided certain questions and surely there is nobody else left alive who knows the answers to those questions.

On 1 March 2023, minutes of a GNOME Foundation Executive Committee meeting capture the names of Anisa Kuci and Sonny Piers together for the first time. At this point, she is not on the list of people receiving payments from GNOME Foundation. There are serious ethical concerns when members of the CoC-committee are physically intimate with the very people they are making up rumours about. Likewise, there are serious ethical concerns when staff members are able to intercept and suppress CoC-committee complaints about their workmates and their own boss. We already discussed the way these CoC schemes are similar to the catch-and-kill strategy the National Enquirer used to purchase and suppress stories about Donald Trump. These financial and sexual conflicts of interest are even more disturbing when the conflicts of interest are totally hidden from the victims of defamation created by these gangsters.

 

It appears there are now two women from Albania who were being paid to work on the organisation of GUADEC and assist other events like DebConf. Up to this point, the organisations had always insisted that if volunteers wanted an event they have to organise it themselves. Nobody had any public discussion about changing the strategy and having a mix of volunteers and paid event staff. It is vital to ask the question: did the oligarchs create these jobs because the community chose to change the strategy or did these jobs get created because somebody wanted these two specific girls from Albania to have jobs?

GNOME hired the first girl at the end of 2018. Some time later, the other girl went to Outreachy, then she went to Wikimedia Italia, an organisation that relies on a lot of volunteers who don't get paid. A list of her past relationships was circulated and the people doing unpaid work became upset. Shortly after that, it looks like GNOME took her on their payroll. The fact that GNOME has ended up with two girls from the same Albanian background adds weight to the argument that the jobs were created for these specific girls rather than to fill some general need.

Remember, in 2018 and 2019, these are the same girls who asked the Debianists to buy their travel tickets in advance while all the other young interns had to buy tickets with their own money and wait for reimbursement.

Before Boris Johnson became prime minister of the UK, he served as the mayor of London. Various people have come forward with evidence that he tried to have specific women assigned to jobs rather than the normal process of advertising the job and choosing the best candidate. The pattern was repeated when he was prime minister and his girlfriend, now wife, was proposed for a job in the Foreign Office.

On 19 April 2023, Anisa Kuci, the waitress from Albania who sat closest to Chris Lamb at the DebConf19 conference dinner goes for the CoC-committee in the GNOME Foundation forum, which runs on Discourse software.

 

 

Why did Kristi Progri get a big title, Director of Project Management but when Anisa Kuci joined GNOME they call her an Administrative Assistant? Both girls grew up together in the same building. The both joined the Open Labs group together. Either one job title is being overstated or the other job title is understated. It looks like the job for the second girl was only created as part of the catch-and-kill strategy to keep women on side so they won't repeat the things they told me in 2017 and 2018 about the Fedora Ambassador Elio Qoshi.

What is the Code of Conduct gaslighting all about anyway? This is the stuff of cults. People are supposed to smile and pretend everything is alright even when something bad happens. Remember the story of Adrian von Bidder's death on our wedding day? We are expected to keep smiling. If a rape victim sees Jeremy Bicha in the bunk beds at DebConf, is she allowed to talk about her concerns? Of course not. The Code of Conduct gaslighting doesn't care how she feels.

On 21 April 2023, Elio Qoshi publishes a blog about his job at Canonical Ltd, makers of Ubuntu. The blog is about How we designed the new Ubuntu Desktop installer.

On 10 May 2023, Jeremy Bicha writes another advocacy for Matthias Geiger to be promoted from Debian Maintainer to Debian Developer:

Subject: Matthias Geiger: Advocate
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 15:06:23 -0000
From: Jeremy Bicha (via nm.debian.org) <nm@debian.org>
Reply-To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org,
  Matthias Geiger <matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>,
  archive-1181@nm.debian.org,
  Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Matthias Geiger <matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>,
  archive-1181@nm.debian.org,
  Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

For nm.debian.org, at 2023-05-10:
I support Matthias Geiger <matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>'s request to
become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Matthias Geiger on GNOME packages since March 2022.
Matthias has created new Debian packages
for several GNOME related apps and libraries and maintained them well
ever since.

Matthias has been very instrumental in doing the major prerequisite work
to get newer GNOME apps written in Rust
into Debian Trixie. This is very complicated but important work.

I have personally worked with Matthias Geiger
<matthias.geiger1024@tutanota.de>
(key C2E1A6CBFDECE511A8A4176D18BD106B3B6C5475) for 14 months, and I know
Matthias Geiger
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised,
unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Jeremy Bicha (via nm.debian.org)

Matthias Geiger is a very common name. Jeremy Bicha has vouched for him but neither of them have told us if they have any conflicts of interest, for example, if they both work for the same employer, Canonical Ltd or if they ever shared a prison cell together.

On 26 July 2023, Jeremy Bicha gave a talk at GUADEC in Latvia on the topic How GNOME Gets into Ubuntu. Here are some of the slides, with his sister's testimony superimposed over them:

 

 

On 11 September 2023, Jeremy Bicha writes an advocacy for Amin Bandali. This time he reveals that they are both working at the same company, Canonical Ltd, the maker of Ubuntu. Some people have serious ethical concerns about Ubuntu developers and co-workers writing references for each other like this because they are under pressure to serve the needs of their company rather than being objective about Debian.

Subject: Amin Bandali: Advocate
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:15:25 -0000
From: Jeremy Bicha (via nm.debian.org) <nm@debian.org>
Reply-To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org,
  Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>,
  archive-1211@nm.debian.org,
  Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
CC: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>,
  archive-1211@nm.debian.org,
  Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

For nm.debian.org, at 2023-09-11:
I support Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>'s request to become a Debian
Developer, uploading.

I have personally worked with Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
(key BE6273738E616D6D1B3A08E8A21A020248816103) on the Debian GNOME team
since the end of 2022. He has packaged updates for a variety of GNOME
packages. Earlier this year, he officially joined the Debian GNOME team
and has been entrusted with DM upload rights to several packages. He has
used those upload rights well.

Amin Bandali also has interest and skill with troubleshooting build
issues on non-amd64 architectures which is why he is not just a DM, but
a "DM with guest account".

Amin Bandali is a coworker with me at Canonical since late 2022. His
primary job duties are not .deb packaging for Debian and he was already
maintaining packages in Debian before joining Canonical.

I firmly believe that the Debian Project will benefit from granting
Debian Developer, uploading status to Amin Bandali. I know Amin Bandali
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised,
unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Jeremy Bicha (via nm.debian.org)

Oddly enough, those messages were exchanged at the same time as DebConf23 in India. On 9 September 2023, I sent the coroner for Cambridgeshire a written warning about the risk for health and safety in Debianism, with a reference to the culture and the blackmail behaviour:

Subject: Re: Inquest Christopher Rutter - Information Request
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 18:59:26 +0200
From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
To: Coroners <Coroners@cambridgeshire.gov.uk>


Hi [redacted],

I've updated the document with some extra email evidence and two more
deaths, both of those being under management from a doctoral candidate
at Cambridge.

Based on my own experience of both Debian culture, the Pell situation
and the evidence in these emails, I feel that there is an ongoing risk
to the health of people who engage with this culture.

Please kindly confirm if the coroner can escalate this to the relevant
people or whether you need somebody to present the document in person.

Regards,

Daniel

Abraham Raji died three days later. It is the first case of somebody dying at DebConf. It was anticipated, therefore, it was avoidable.

During 2023, there was a high profile underage rape and incest prosecution in South Australia. A bakery on the Eyre Peninsula had recruited fifteen-year-old girls to do some baking, smile at the customers and help the owner have more children. The man in charge and his wife were both convicted. Three children were born in one seven month period. The baker's father had shared one of the girls. There are thirteen children and they need to make DNA tests to verify which man is responsible for each of them. Newspapers described it as a cult-like living arrangement but it is not uncommon for workers to live with their boss when in a remote location like this. When you look at the remoteness of the location and the nature of such jobs where the young girls are living at their workplace, it has some similarity to the situation where Jeremy Bicha and his little sisters were living a life that was isolated from other children.

In May 2024, a news report from Australia tells us that Timothy / Tim Lunn, an IT specialist was called as a witness in the high profile Gregory Lynn murder trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Yet if Mr Lunn himself had been associating with a registered sex offender on parole in Florida, is it fair for him to be trusted in a judicial process as serious as a murder trial?

Also in May 2024, minutes of the GNOME Foundation board have been redacted to hide discussions about Sonny Piers and the "staffing", which really means the hush money being paid to the Albanian female whistleblowers. Sonny Piers was secretly expelled at this point but it is redacted in the minutes.

On 21 June 2024, immediately after GNOME Foundation expelled and censored Sonny Piers, the web site for the Open Labs non-profit with all the girls in Tirana, Albania is completely taken offline. The group uses their Facebook account to post a message telling us that they decided to close the organisation without giving us the real reason.

On 18 July 2024, immediately after they shut down the Open Labs web site and discussion forum in Albania, an anonymous account is created in the GNOME Foundation forum on Discourse. The account is used to post a hideous defamation about Sonny Piers, who they had expelled with a secret trial in May. Dozens of discussions and news reports appear about Sonny Piers being banned from GNOME. The girls are insisting that everybody should know they decided to humiliate Sonny but nobody is allowed to ask why the girls are obsessed with humiliating him. Whenever messages like this appear, they always hint at some sort of bad sexual etiquette. As we saw with every other case, such as Ted Walther in 2006 and Dr Jacob Appelbaum in 2016, these rumours are not only false but they have been deliberately fabricated by some chronically dishonest people intent on harming male volunteers and our families.

The defamation message about Sonny Piers explicitly mentions "Code of Conduct" but what they really mean is "Code of Silence". They are doing all this to stop Sonny Piers talking about payments to one of the Albanian girls or something similar to that.

Sonny Piers writes a response on his own blog three days later:

I am no longer a member of the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation since May 2024. The process and decision shocked me. I know people are looking for answers, but I want to protect people involved and the project/foundation. It was never an interpersonal conflict for me.

Remember, Sonny Piers has been doing voluntary work for twenty years and he contributed substantial intellectual property. The Albanian girls who were secretly added to the GNOME payroll only work when they receive money and they only go to events when somebody, usually the male oligarchs, buy the tickets for them.

The community had elected Sonny Piers to the board. As a member of the board it is absolutely certain he saw privileged information about the payments to Albanian female whistleblowers. However, he may not have been told the real reason for those payments. He may have asked questions about why the same girls are selected for every diversity grant. All this happened in GNOME Foundation immediately after the controlling corporations shut down the Open Labs group in Albania. Follow the money / girls.

Back in the communist era, Albania was run by a totalitarian dictator, Enver Hoxha. Among other things, he had banned all western pop music. When Kylie Minogue from Australia became the Princess of Pop, she immediately went to the top of the list of singers banned in Albania until communism ended in 1991.

The GNOME Foundation hired two girls from Albania. Now we see the policies of Enver Hoxha and totalitarianism being reincarnated in a non-profit voluntary organisation. History is repeating itself.

Jeremy Bicha had engaged in real abuse of his little sisters when they were six and nine years old. As a voting member of the GNOME Foundation and a member of the Release Team he has a higher status than Sonny Piers. Why can people go to the web site of the Manatee County Court and read all the details about real abuse of the little sisters but we are not allowed to know anything about the questions Sonny Piers was asking at board meetings?

Here is an example of the things Jeremy Bicha was convicted for:

 

Reading comments like that reminded me of the way misfits on debian-private (leaked) discussed the words used by the parents of Frans Pop after he committed suicide:

Subject: Re: Death of Frans Pop
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:39:21 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:52:33PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
> > "Yesterday morning our son Frans Pop has died. He took his own life,
> > in a well-considered, courageous, and considerate manner. During the
> > last years his main concern was his work for Debian. I would like to
> > ask you to inform those members of the Debian community who knew him
> > well."
>
> Does that imply he took his own life *because* of Debian, which was "his
> main concern"?

This is probably the wrong thread for linguistics, but that phrase would
normally just indicate that Debian was his main interest.  In
http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0169810 under "noun",
this would be sense 2 rather than sense 1.

--
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

What is so much more sensitive about the Sonny Piers drama that GNOME will not tell us? Did he do something that is even worse than raping a little girl? Or did he stumble onto an inconvenient truth about Albanian girls that must be hidden from the community at all costs?

My suspicion is that this is more than somebody's sex life at stake. It is not unusual for people to hook up with their colleagues in student unions and open source software conferences. Some of the women have told me they were under pressure to lie. Paying women to create or repeat a lie, knowing it is a lie, undermines trust in the whole organisation that paid for those lies.

Software producers are particularly keen to maintain the trust of the community. The moment people stop trusting the GNOME developers everybody will abandon the project. How could we trust these developers if they used the foundation's funds to make payments to a woman who spread a lie or defamation?

After you pay a woman to lie, you can't sack that woman. You have to keep her on the payroll until she's ready to have children and become a stay-home mother.

I suspect that is why Anisa Kuci was immediately given a job at GNOME after the end of her relationship with Wikimedia Italia. Somebody didn't want to see her join some random employer where random developers will ask her to disclose details about the conspiracies at DebConf19.

It is important to reflect on these secrecy tactics. These tactics create the type of environment where real abusers can thrive.

On 2 August 2024, Andreas Tille, then leader of Debianism, wrote in his Bits from DPL:

Nominating Jeremy Bícha for GNOME Advisory Board

I've nominated Jeremy Bícha to GNOME Advisory Board. Jeremy has volunteered to represent Debian at GUADEC in Denver.

Sonny Piers, like other victims, was censored and humiliated indefinitely while the registered sex offender is put up on a pedestal to supposedly be the representative of the rest of us. I certainly didn't consent to him speaking for me.

Furthermore, how can a Canonical Ltd employee be representing the interests of both Debianism and the Ubuntu misfits at the GNOME Advisory Board? The conflict of interest is enormous. It isn't possible for him to do both at the same time.

On 17 November 2024, there was a MiniDebConf in Toulouse, France. In the video, we can see Pierre-Elliott Bécue wearing a t-shirt with the expression Losing my mind, one kid at a time and a picture of a child sitting on a man's shoulders. Most people will see a normal parent-child relationship in the picture but about two percent of men see something else.

 

On 6 January 2025, Justin W. Flory / Wheeler registers the domain name jwheel.org. On 11 February 2025, the Wayback Machine captures the last snapshot of his web site at jwf.io using the name Justin W. Flory. On 17 February 2025, in the next snapshot captured by the Wayback Machine, we can see him using a new name, Justin W. Wheeler. It begs the question: why did he leave the USA and move to eastern Europe? Why did he have to change his name after spending time in Albania? Why was he moved from a job at UNICEF to the IBM Red Hat payroll around the same time the Albanian female whistleblowers were put on the GNOME Foundation payroll?

In March 2025, shortly before DebConf25, we saw Jeremy Bicha began contributing to the Debian-Edu project. That is the derivative of Debian created to meet the needs of the education industry. Why does he have schools on his mind? Jeremy Bicha's status as a registered sex offender is intended to prevent him being employed inside a school. By collaborating on Debian-Edu, he gains credibility that allows him to interact with schools as a volunteer. This looks like privilege escalation. He was engaged in this while he was an employee of Canonical Ltd and Ubuntu.

Look at his collaborators on debian-edu. Some of the people we discussed previously are also there: Holger Levsen, one of the protagonists of the DebConf6 violence. The founder of Teckids, who joined Debianism at the same time as Jeremy Bicha, is Dominik George.

 

At DebConf25 in Brest, France, the GNOME talk from Jeremy Bicha was scheduled for 14 July, the French national holiday. In France, the day normally starts with parades by the military and the emergency services, including the police. Therefore, people were asked to choose between applauding the police as they marched through Brest or watching a registered sex offender giving a talk in the university campus.

To make matters worse, president of Debian France is Pierre-Elliott Bécue, a former employee of ANSSI, the cybersecurity arm of the French military.

On 14 July each year in Brest, the military parade in Cours Dajot begins at 11:00

 

The talk by Jeremy Bicha is listed in the DebConf25 schedule at 18:00 on the same day.

Did the conference organisers know about this risk in advance? As we can see above, incest had been mentioned on debian-private as early as 2018.

In the first week of July 2025, Jeremy Bicha made some Nazi comment on the XLibre project wiki. On 4 July 2025, it was discussed in this Github issue.

People started investigating all the participants in the argument. On 7 July 2025, this forum post mentions the sex crime. On 8 July 2025, Bryan Lunduke used his account on Twitter/X to tell us he had found the conviction. It is not clear if he was the first to find it. On 11 July 2025, a lengthy post appears on Telegram.

On 14 July 2025, Fandom Pulse discusses the way people tolerate the registered sex offender but not Dr Richard Stallman. Bryan Lunduke blogged Registered Sex Offender Speaking at Debian Conference This Week. He followed up the next day with Registered Sex Offender No Longer Working at Canonical. On 16 July 2025, somebody posted the Fandom Pulse link in Hacker News and somebody else censored the link because the Hacker News people are in the same snobby set who prefer the registered sex offender over Dr Richard Stallman. Remember, this was a scandal that started with a comment about who is a Nazi. On 17 July 2025, Techrights gave their view on the scandal.

On 9 August 2025, it was mentioned again in Hacker News in this thread and somebody from the snobby set removed the link again but the comments remain.

Talks at the conference were video recorded and published online but the registered sex offender video is missing from the collection.

Putting this type of diversity on display at a prominent event feels like the thin end of the wedge. Brest is a city known for its strong naval history. Jeremy Bicha had been discharged from the US Navy after they found out. Like the rogue Russian spy-ships who periodically sail the English channel, Debianists have decided to test the waters of diversity by putting this man on display. They wanted to see how the public reacts. They want us to know this is the new normal. The victims were only six and nine years old. On the scale of sexual offences, these were some of the worst. By putting this out in the open, they make it easier to bring in offenders who have less serious crimes.

Back in the 1970s, people like this tried to create organizations like the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) where their cause was published in broad daylight. Within a few years these organisations had been outlawed. The lesson they have learnt from those prosecutions is the need to affiliate themselves with more general causes like diversity and then expand the definition of diversity to include, by stealth, all kinds of people who are irreconcilably incompatible with the rest of us.

We already looked at the prosecution of Matthias Kirschner for the psychological abuse of Galia Mancheva. Sooner or later another oligarch will face one of these prosecutions. If it is somebody the cabal wants to protect, they can remind us how Jeremy Bicha came to DebConf25 and it didn't kill anybody. They will remind us the diversity statement says anybody is welcome as long as you display total submission to their CoC.

The revelations about Jeremy Bicha's abuse of his little sisters sparked an uproar. People wanted to know why Bicha was sent to prison for three years but Sonny Piers had been given a lifetime punishment in the GNOME Discourse forum. Ten days after the scheduled talk at DebConf25, there was a new post in the GNOME Discourse forum about Sonny Piers.

This time, instead of using an anonymous account, Robert McQueen has written the post under his own name. He tells us the punishment has been reduced:

The Board is providing this information to clarify the decisions made in this case, and to eliminate any uncertainty within the GNOME community about the matter.

In fact, the very long post does not include any example of the questions Sonny Piers asked about the Albanian women. Therefore, we all remain totally in the dark.

the Board also voted that Sonny will not be eligible for appointment in any position of authority within the Foundation, or to act as an agent on behalf of the organization, or to have paid work with the GNOME Foundation. This means that he will be unable to be a committee member, director, officer, staff member or contractor, or officially represent the GNOME Foundation to other entities. The Board resolution put these restrictions in place on an indefinite basis.

The board and Robert McQueen are telling us that Sonny Piers is permitted to return to GNOME but he will always have a lower status than the registered sex offender. Think about how that feels.

Turn that statement on its head: why does Robert McQueen feel more comfortable with the Ubuntu man who popped the cherry of a six year old than he does with an independent developer who the community voted onto the board?

On 4 April 2026, Oscar Langley asked about it in the election discussion for the next leader of Debianism. None of the candidates would reply to questions about child safety.

Subject: 	DebConf25 decisions affecting Child Safety and talk scheduling
Date: 	Sat, 4 Apr 2026 11:01:37 +0000
From: 	Oscar Langley <oscar.langley@hotmail.com>
To: 	debian-vote@lists.debian.org <debian-vote@lists.debian.org>

I understand this topic may be somewhat tangential to the election mailing list, but I reviewed the list of voters in this year's DPL election and discovered that Jeremy Bicha is a Debian developer who cast a ballot: https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2026/voters.txt

If you search up his name on Google, the very first result is his profile on Florida's Sexual Offender and Predator System, as he molested multiple preteen girls throughout the 1990's and confessed to all this in court.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=85068
https://wng.org/articles/the-high-cost-of-negligence-1617309216

Being a child molester is most likely a violation of the Debian Code of Conduct, and if it is not, it is reprehensible enough to call into question his continued status as a member of the project.

Additionally, there are two more important questions about Bicha's relationship with the Debian Project that have yet to be answered. Bicha was due to speak at DebConf25 last year, an event that children were permitted to attend. The livestream also experienced technical issues when his talk was about to start, leaving it unclear whether he actually spoke.

The two questions are:

1. What factors led to the decision to allow children in the presence of Bicha?

2. Was Bicha' talk was canceled, or did it indeed take place but was simply never streamed?

And a third question is begged:

3. Why hasn't the Debian Project cut ties with Bicha?

but one person made a reply praising the extreme definition of diversity:

Subject: 	Wasn't sure where to send but thank you...
Date: 	Wed, 8 Apr 2026 12:08:58 -0400
From: 	Star Light Catcher <catcherstarlight@gmail.com>
To: 	debian-project@lists.debian.org

I would just like to say, I would sometimes browse the reddits for Linux and in the general Linux reddit I saw someone saying the project was "in trouble" and worried I went to the Debian reddit to look into it... And what I'm very sad to say I found was people being very cruel and closed minded about the fact that the project seems to be valuing inclusion and bringing in new voices and talents to the FOSS community and the Debian project... So, I no longer really read reddit for Linux news but I very much wanted to say how much I've adored using Debian these past 8 months since switching to Linux. It's been rock solid, my best experience on Linux ever (and despite only switching 8 months ago I had tried Linux many times since 2010! Tons of different distros!) Debian has been genuinely an oasis from so much of what is wrong about modern tech, all while being built on what is obviously such a solid foundation I can't see myself switching back to Distros which genuinely often seemed to nuke themselves with little cause from me, and I've done plenty of things to ride my installs of Debian hard and it's never faltered at all.

And about the people behind the Debian project... In a time of increasing authoritarianism and such a huge increase to push minorities even further to the fringes... Debian embracing diversity during all of this... It warms this trans woman's heart who has felt such a sense of dread at the way the world is going. So thank y'all genuinely. Linux users are known to distrohop but... I can't imagine ever needing anything but the Universal Operating System ever again 🫂 and what brings me such joy is that it feels that it's not just universal, as in, for all devices, but universal, as in /for everyone/. 💜

Thank you for all you do, I plan to up my donation when I can,
Star Elizabeth Wilkerson 🦄⭐️

17 to 20 April 2026, it was discussed and then suppressed in the Arch wiki.

Ben Carroll is the Deputy Premier and Education Minister for the State of Victoria. On Mother's Day in 2024, he posted a picture of himself with his local priest, who I'll simply refer to as Father X:

 

In 1994, the Archdiocese of Melbourne had to exfiltrate another priest, Fr Barry Robinson, from Boston. Father X was tasked with the mission. In particular, the scope of his mission was far bigger than the exfiltration. Father X was also asked to look at the crisis in Boston and report back to his superiors in Australia. This was eight years before the Spotlight news reports raised public awareness of the scandal. The priest who gives communion to Victoria's Education minister had himself learnt about the extent of the global crisis and expressed concern about warehousing paedophiles:

 

 

These letters resonate with our observations of Jeremy Bicha in the world of Debianism. The same people attacked every volunteer who ever asked serious ethical questions, they attacked my family when my father died but they welcome a registered sex offender with open arms.

After returning from Boston, Fr Barry Robinson had lived in the same house as Father X while the US authorities continued their investigation. Fr Barry Robinson had admitted abuse but they decided not to prosecute him at all. The church decided to ignore his admission and put him back into practice:

 

In 2024, another lawsuit cast attention on the use of scholarships for the two children of a victim. People gain status in society through attending these elite high schools. There is a risk that this perpetuates the culture of silence. It is analogous to the manner in which some open source software organisations are giving people internships, big titles and speaking opportunities so they will stay silent about abuse in Albania

Here is the redacted deed that mentions scholarships:

 

On the GNOME web site, we can see that one of the Albanian female whistleblowers has asked to hide her name. Is this because of Sonny Piers, because of Jeremy Bicha or because of Elio Qoshi?

 

In February 2025, The Monthly published and then almost immediately took down an article by Louise Milligan titled The True Legacy of the Rapist George Pell. The late Cardinal Pell had been successful in his appeal and the conviction had been overturned by the High Court. Therefore, calling him a rapist is a very strong defamation. Nonetheless, copies of the article are easily found online.

The Debian Diversity statement tells us the definition of diversity is very large. A lot like to National Council of Civil Liberties in the 1970s, the Diversity Statement say anyone is welcome (up to the day when you ask an ethical question). At DebConf25, they demonstrated the definition of anyone includes registered sex offenders. He is not the only one and he won't be the last one.

Please watch my crowdfunding video to learn more about the lawsuit in US federal court.