On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:12 AM, John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/7/27 David Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Sunday 27 July 2008, John Pinner wrote:
>>
>>> I have been making sure that things are being collated, for example
>>> the brochure, and the software (including Dinu's badge software) is
>>> being kept in a repository on our secure server. By definition, you
>>> can't get remote access to this, so we'll have to think of something
>>> else sometime, for example we could put it in a more public repository
>>> on the pyconuk/europython server, or at python.org.
>>
>> I like the idea of using the python.org server - it seems like a fairly
>> neutral place for this sort of material. Whether or not it's all public
>> depends on the material being stored. I'm OK with having public and
>> private repositories as long as the material gets archived.
>
> The problem I have with a public repository is that the registration
> software includes login details to shopping carts for (at the moment)
> three separate conferences, and maybe later credit card payment
> services providers (eg PayPal, Protx, SecPay). OK, so in the current
> software this is held in config files, but at some time someone is
> bound to commit it in error whatever precautions you take. Also, for
> the sake of convenience, I'm storing the delegates' data and if you
> make that public you'd be into all sorts of data protection issues. So
> for now the registration part of it should be private.
I don't think the proposal was for this information being in the repository.
There should not be any reason for financial information on this level
being in a repository for conference materials to be shared between
multiple yearly conferences. The conference materials repository used
for PyCon US is completely different from the open source conference
software SVN which is separate from the repository containing the
financial information (as it should be). Each conference should manage
their confidential information using the regional legal standards for
personal data retention.
-Doug
>
> John
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