Open wolftune opened 5 years ago
msmunter
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5 years ago That sounds great. Is there a place you would prefer to view and/or work on a collaborative work-in-progress outside of the repository? We could always just use the wiki here.
wolftune
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5 years ago I would prefer to use git and follow https://keepachangelog.com/ since that's what we did for Snowdrift.coop. We otherwise used an etherpad for times that we directly worked live, literally reading and editing sentences together while on audio-video chat.
I just realized we have our own legal-docs repo set to private at GitLab, but I think that should change, looking into that decision. I think it will work best to fork the Snowdrift.coop docs and then track the changes in git so that anyone could trace it back to the original GitHub Terms and understand what was changed, and also we could consider whether certain changes we made for Snowdrift.coop should maybe be reverted toward GitHub start when the changes are less-relevant to star.vote.
wolftune
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5 years ago Okay, so, I updated our GitLab repo, so here's the files relevant that I think we should start from and adapt:
Terms (markdown version): https://gitlab.com/snowdrift/legal/blob/master/terms-of-service.md and the linked CHANGELOG (this is what is our adaptation from GitHub; if we fork that file including its Git History, that will be smoothest, then we just strip out all Snowdrift-specific stuff and add anything missing that is needed for Star.vote, though that may be near-zero)
Privacy Policy (hamlet, like html, probably want to adapt this to markdown): https://gitlab.com/snowdrift/snowdrift/blob/master/website/templates/page/privacy.hamlet — in that case, the history isn't as relevant. Could readily just take the main file and have a CHANGELOG referencing the version and date that we started with.
I'd be willing to accept an assignment for the issue if you want to add me to the repo to do that.
These legal statements should be added (they can and should clarify that the site does not do tracking etc). This type of service could very well use cookies, third-party-requests, and other tracking to gain insights into individual's political preferences and other things. We need to make it really clear that we do NOT do such things while also having normal terms clarifying our liabilities / lack of liabilities for use of the site etc.
This is a complex and difficult task. I am volunteering to help. My organization Snowdrift.coop worked out what I feel are the best ethical terms, adapted from GitHub's own terms. I could take what we did and strip it down to the smaller list of things that apply to star.vote