Let me come back from holidays and I,m with you. I'm already working on a 
similar issue. Thanks to all.

Dott. Spataro
IusOnDemand.com
Sviluppo software e formazione diritto del web

> Il giorno 09 ago 2017, alle ore 15:33, Michael Stemle 
> <themanchic...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> That is fantastic! I started thinking about some stuff last night, and this 
> seems like it's already very detailed. I'll review it later when I have time 
> to dig in. It'd be cool if we had something that could tie a score to a 
> specific clause in a document, too.
> 
>> On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 4:53:47 AM UTC-4, Michiel de Jong wrote:
>> Awesome! I'm really excited to see this post appear on the list at this time.
>> 
>> As you know we have this concept of a 'team' (see 
>> https://tosdr.org/about.html#contact), who are basically the list of people 
>> within our community (including myself) who have more or less committed to 
>> sometiimes responding to interview requests from the press, and to feeling 
>> extra guilty about the project's current backlog. :)
>> 
>> We sometimes exchange emails off-list about our personal planning of who 
>> might be able to do what, and one of those was a discussion about moving our 
>> crippled editing app (https://edit.tosdr.org) from Meteor to Ruby on Rails, 
>> in the hope it will be easier to find people who are willing to maintain and 
>> develop it. We still have about 4600 euros left from the 2011 crowdfunding 
>> (see https://github.com/tosdr/1901/blob/master/finances/finance-2017-q1.md), 
>> and are currently rewarding ourselves with 20 euros per hour in the case of 
>> paid ToS;DR work (so we can still do 230 hours of paid ToS;DR work before we 
>> need to do a new crowd-funding round). We've repeatedly posted and tweeted 
>> that we're looking for a Meteor developer who is interested in working 
>> remotely on an awesome, important, and world-famous project, but no luck yet 
>> - hopefully it's easier to find this person if we switch to Ruby-on-Rails! :)
>>  
>> Another discussion that's relevant is setting up monthly ToS;DR meeting, and 
>> I'm now a bit embarrassed that this discussion was initiated and kept in a 
>> small circle of personal email addresses, instead of sharing it with 
>> everybody on this mailing list.
>> 
>> Anybody, if you want to join our monthly meeting, please add your name!:) 
>> https://framadate.org/8azN8C2rfyxdKueo Current leading proposals are next 
>> week Tuesday or Thursday, EU evening / east-coast afternoon / west-cost 
>> morning time.
>> 
>> About the scoring system and the checklist, yes, both are things I've been 
>> playing around with:
>> * scoring criteria (I call them 'cases'): 
>> https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-build/blob/master/scripts/cases.js
>> * assign scores to points based on these cases: 
>> https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-build/blob/master/scripts/checkcases.js
>> * assign a class based on point scores: 
>> https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-build/blob/master/scripts/checkclasses.js
>> 
>> These are all one-off scripts that Ian and I have sometimes run on our own 
>> laptops, but which you can't really ask random contributors to run, because 
>> it's just too user-unfriendly, so the idea is that these processes should 
>> all go into a hosted web app, which is what we hope someone, or someones, 
>> will develop, but which has been embarrassingly stalled over the past years, 
>> due to everybody having things like day jobs and other stuff to do...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Michiel.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Renee Lloyd <renee...@mac.com> wrote:
>>> This is a great idea!  I'm interested in working with you!  
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 8, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Michael Stemle <theman...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I know that this is my first message to the group, but I've been watching 
>>>> for a while and I would like to jump in and help.
>>>> 
>>>> A key challenge that I see this group facing is that the backlog of sites 
>>>> to score is mammoth. There is no way that this group will ever be able to 
>>>> keep up with the changes and the scoring of TOS and Privacy Policies if it 
>>>> is something which takes a long time to do. The backlog is unsustainable, 
>>>> and because there's no way that the backlog can be chewed into, and so 
>>>> many popular sites are not yet scored, it will be difficult for the 
>>>> public—and the organizations themselves—to take scoring seriously.
>>>> 
>>>> Google has a "C." Google doesn't care. DuckDuckGo has an "A," and they 
>>>> only care because they've made that a core part of their business.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to help construct a proposal for a standardized scoring 
>>>> system. This scoring system would focus not on independent clauses in the 
>>>> document, but rather questions like: "can site X track you outside of your 
>>>> own site? -20 points" or "does organization Y promise to disclose 
>>>> government requests for information? +20 points." Something simple, which 
>>>> when aggregated could output a score.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to find two or three other people to work with in this 
>>>> endeavor, the product of which would be a document outlining the process 
>>>> for measuring, scoring, and preparing this proposal for a vote by 
>>>> contributors. Since there's a lot to review, I think keeping the number of 
>>>> people down will help us come to something that we can open to the wider 
>>>> group more quickly.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like this process to observe a December 1st deadline, so that we 
>>>> can all review the document and members (of which I am not one yet) can 
>>>> vote. During the process we would give a monthly update.
>>>> 
>>>> After this process, it might be useful to have a program which takes a 
>>>> checklist of the criteria, runs it through a rules engine, and pops out a 
>>>> score. This would make it so that people reviewing sites weren't affecting 
>>>> the score directly, but instead were focusing first and foremost on the 
>>>> agreed-upon criteria.
>>>> 
>>>> The goals of this process would be:
>>>> A clear, transparent, and easy-to-understand set of scoring criteria that 
>>>> the browser plugin could draw attention to
>>>> Because of the standardized approach, the organizations being scored would 
>>>> understand how to improve their score
>>>> We would now have the ability to score sites consistently, and more quickly
>>>> This process will foster a more trustworthy set of scores as it is 
>>>> repeatable based on criteria
>>>> No recommendations would be construed to have been agreed-upon by the 
>>>> group until a vote affirmed the proposal
>>>> I do hope that the group thinks that this is a worthwhile proposal, and 
>>>> I'm happy to start working on this ASAP. If this is already an effort 
>>>> which is underway, I would like to contribute. I looked but didn't find 
>>>> any.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Much thanks.
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