On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:52 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 17:47 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > For a while now, we've been butting up against the Red Hat Privacy > > Policy (which we've been using to cover Fedora). To try to address some > > of these concerns, I sat down and made a new privacy policy for Fedora > > Could you enumerate what those concerns are/were? Not everyone is aware > of the reasons to write a new policy. Paul gave some examples in his blog post earlier (http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1063). To save people some trouble, and as I'm sure he won't mind, here's the relevant snippet to save people from having to click[1] Paul wrote: > Here’s an example: Recently, we found that the policy was going to > make it impossible for us to develop useful geographic data on > contributions. We can use data like that to develop the infamous “heat > maps” to show where lots of Fedora work is happening. Those maps have > been absolutely instrumental in our community architecture plans, and > how we devote resources to Fedora worldwide. > > Even though we’re always very careful about aggregating this data so > it’s not tied to individuals, the old privacy policy still prevents > this and many other, similar reasonable uses. We can develop metrics > that are useful not just to the Board, or FESCo, but also Ambassadors, > Marketing, and other groups. These are all our fellow contributors > whom we already trust, and with whom we share our account system. > > Moreover, some of this data is intended to be public already — data > like your Fedora Account System (FAS) account name and email; or the > fact that you used it to commit a specfile patch; or the fact that you > uploaded that patch from a certain IP address. So the privacy policy > we’ve been using is completely out of whack with the reality of a > truly open project like Fedora. Jeremy _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
