Hi, >> Actually it would be great if all the Journals on XO could be >> (by default) open for reading (and commenting) by everyone in >> the learning community / local, near by XO users.
> That would be the exact opposite of great and it's something > Bitfrost intends to protect against [1,2]. The Journal is called > thus for a reason: It records _everything_ the user did on the > system (within Sugar, that is) and not just school-related > work. If Journal entries are to be published, it needs to be on > an opt-in basis, not opt-out. I think this argument is independent of Bitfrost; it's just a policy decision about public-by-default vs. private-by-default. Bitfrost (if implemented) would try to enforce privacy, but that doesn't mean it would make everything always be private; just things that it thought the user wanted to be private. We decided many years ago to go with private-by-default, hence the current UI of opt-in sharing. I still think it's an debate with compelling arguments in both directions, but changing the decision now would probably be too counter-intuitive to everyone, even if we decided that public-by-default wins on the merits. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[email protected]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
