Hi Adam On 12 May 2016 at 15:33, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> 1. A section of the doc is available live here, >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List >> >> 2. That doc shows 279 members >> >> I've requested access to the doc :) Thanks Samson! > > > I'm NOT questioning Dave Crosslands' personal ethics (although many question > his employer's ethics privately)
I'm contractually bound to clarify this: Google is a client of my employer, a UK company of which I am one of the directors, and I'm not an employee of Google, and nothing I do should be construed as representing Google or any of the company's other clients (BBC, etc.) > however more generally there's a very > serious institutional/fiduciary problem here, if SL members' non-publishable > personal data is being shared with someone who is not a member of Sugar > Labs, as Dave Crossland recently stated he is still not a member of SL? > That may have changed in recent weeks, but again we have no way of knowing, > which is the core issue :) I am now a Member, as you can see at the end of the list of members in the link I provided :) > FWIW many serious organizations wait years before providing this level of > access (database of all their members) for profound reasons of > conflict-of-interest, and accidental-or-worse-intentional abuse of personal > data. Those organizations' data is probably more substantial, though. Eg, a database of all Mossack Fonseca's clients is rather different to the database of volunteers for a free software project (which is already public given the public nature of the services rendered voluntarily in public bug trackers, mailing lists, etc.) -- Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
