About privacy issues, On 24 March 2014 12:50, Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]> wrote: > wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140311
> * Privacy issues regarding GNOME Software statistics reporting > * The GNOME Software statistics configuration moved to GNOME Control Center > * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725912 > * The change to send usage stats to distros by default was intentional I am very surprised to read the argument developed in [1]. Shouldn't GNOME preserve user's privacy far before serving distributor/vendor's interest? This is worrying. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725912#c2 > * Bastien suggested this be explicitly asked/presented to users in > GNOME Initial Setup I think that this is not enough: The user is not always the one who does the initial setup. Also the initial setup may have happened long ago, who will remember what he selected during initial setup? I think that the user must be informed at the same time when information is sent. Without having to dig into various settings. It could be, for example, a check box in GNOME Software with a label like: "[x] send usage stats alongside the connection." or alike. Together with a link to the policy and details about what is actually sent. This would be clear and transparent, and would allow user to disable the "service" anytime, without any extra steps. > * No further action seems to have taken place > * Will it be done in time for 3.12? > * GNOME Software has a policy about how the data will be used: > * > [[https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/doc/privacy-policy.html]] >From the policy, it is not clear to me if we store the IP or just a hash of it. All in all, this is far too technical, IMHO. Also the web-service used should be named explicitly. (as a side note, is IP a reliable information to identify unique users?) > * But the data collection is not done by GNOME; it is done by distros. > * Karen was consulted in #board since she is not able to attend > today's meeting > * She would want to get Bastien's solution in for 3.12 > * Failing that, we should put something in the release notes > * Conclusions: > * Users should opt-in > * Distros should provide their policy privacy to the user > * Ask the Release Team if we can block against this being added in > GNOME Initial Setup > * '''ACTION''': Kat will reach out to gnome-software maintainers > * '''ACTION''': Kat will email the Release Team > * '''ACTION''': Karen will look at these issues from a legal standpoint > * SXSW (South by South-West) travel report from Sri > * Sri and Karen attended > * Karen had a talk on Friday. While most of the sessions at SXSW > seem to be not very well attended, there was a good amount of press > coming out of it, including an article in Le Monde, in addition to the > SXSW blogpost leading up to it with a very broad readership. > * Advertised the talk via social media > * Interest in OPW; another related to the medical field > * had a GNOME event but it could be organized better, we need to > organize the event well in advance and use multiple ways of > advertising it, including posters and eventbrite. > * Got a couple of new potential volunteers, and some interest in > the west coast hackfest > * Promotion of OPW by EFF, Rackspace, and Wordpress. Karen has > several new fundraising leads for OPW. > * Most people Sri spoke with knew what GNOME was, Free Software, etc. > * Sri gave an interview that has since appeared in a blog post > * > [[http://evolver.fm/2014/03/08/sxsw-pitivi-aims-to-bring-real-video-editing-to-linux/]] > * Karen's articles are: > * > [[http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2014/03/08/et-si-les-implants-medicaux-etaient-sous-licence-libre_4379783_651865.html]] > * > [[http://southxmrm.tumblr.com/post/78924379894/today-i-had-a-chance-to-meet-with-the-incredible]] > * Karen also did a couple of other interviews, including one on > about the remote session with Snowden where usability of free software > was directly discussed. > * In general, they think it was a really good experience > * Difference: We are not preaching to a choir at SXSW, but people > are quite savvy > * Somewhat expensive conference. We need to partner with others like > FSF, KDE, and others. Free Software tent? Karen has talked with people > at a few other companies and orgs about having a free and open > pavilion > * If done again: Plan the event further ahead of time and promote it > in fliers distributed around the venue. Maybe a team of people, > perhaps rent a house to save money > * Outstanding reimbursements > * Reimbursement of sponsorship for FOSSASIA 2014 > * Kat reviewed the receipts. Only the taxi receipts appear to be missing. > * '''ACTION''': Kat will email Rosanna to make the payment and > check the reimburment possibility of the taxi. > * Doc hackfest not yet submitted, but should be done by the end of today > * Financial follow up on OPW > * '''ACTION''': Marina will follow up with Rosanna > * GUADEC 2015 bids and deadlines > * Oliver Propst submitted a bid on behalf of the Gothenburg GUADEC > 2015 organizing committee to both the Board list and the Foundation > Announce list > * > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-March/msg00007.html > * This is the only bid received thus far > * Should we make another announcement, set a deadline, etc.? > * '''ACTION''': Kat will check with the Italian team to verify that > they do not plan to submit a bid > * Upcoming hackfests > * Developer Experience Hackfest > * Allan has invited David King to join the hackfest ~$350 for > travel + ~270 for accommodations > * '''VOTE''': Andreas, Sri, Tobi, Joanie, Marina: +1; Kat abstains > * Venue and date not secured > * The original venue was not available for the date chosen > * Options: Change the date and/or the venue > * May have associated cost changes > * There might be a French translation hackfest proposal coming soon > > * Upcoming events > * GUADEC 2014 - no updates; updates expected after the release > > * Update on fund collection in Europe > * '''ACTION''': Karen will review the agreement > > * Next meeting > * Tuesday, March 20th, 2014, 16:00 UTC > > == Discussed on the mailing list == > > == Completed Actions == > > == Pending action items == > * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors > * Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts > * Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that > want a postcard > * Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting > * Emmanuele to send a proposal to foundation-list about possible IRC meetings > * Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME > conferences to discuss on foundation-list > * Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy > for GNOME events > * Joanie to go over Michael Schumacher ideas on the Gimp funding > processes and merge them with her ideas on the wiki > * Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts > holders and passwords > * Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for > security reasons > * Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services > * Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe > * Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites > * Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts > over to the GNOME infrastructure > > -- > W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name > B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
