On 12/02/17 03:39, Yosem Companys wrote: > Wonderful work, Celso. We'd be happy to help you find volunteers at > Stanford and elsewhere, and I am sure that folks on other lists (cc'ed > above) would be willing to help you as well. > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Celso Mireles > <celso.mire...@gmail.com <mailto:celso.mire...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > >
Hola Celso, I'm a Law student, from Argentina. I join Yosem on congrats you for your work. > Open-sourcing it was an attempt at gaining attention/energy, and > help in developing the project. However, considering the > sensitivity of the subject, a serious solution would most likely > need to be developed in private. I've already been faced with > questions/concerns about the security of open sourcing an app like > this. > I would like to point out: open sourcing is far away from gaining attention/energy (in fact, most of the OS/FreeSoftware important projects lack of them): it's about to make the tool trustworthy. I myself will no trust on a close-code development. It's true: being OS/FS is not a guarantee, but not being it is close to a trap. impossible to freely audit. I hope that you can appreciate the difference. > For a project like this, more that just developers and designers > would be needed: > > * Project Managers > * Organizers to train people on using the tech, and work orgs on > pushing it to the public > * Fundraisers > * Maybe some lawyers to at least be conscious of the legal lines > something like this would blur > I could join to the 2nd group. May the Force be with you :)/ /Cristina (99)
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