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njsmith / sempervirens

An experimental prototype for gathering anonymous, opt-in usage data for open scientific software
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Research and write a privacy policy/opt-in document #1

Open arokem opened 9 years ago

arokem commented 9 years ago

Possible avenues to look:

arokem commented 9 years ago

What would we be asking from (end) users ?

arokem commented 9 years ago

@jackiekazil

arokem commented 9 years ago

@scopatz

njsmith commented 9 years ago

@scopatz wrote a draft of this on the sprint etherpad, which I guess should get moved somewhere else.

takluyver commented 9 years ago

Do you think we need an end-user info document between the one-sentence question and the privacy policy? I was assuming the privacy policy was going to be fairly legalistic, but so far that looks quite readable.

scopatz commented 9 years ago

Documents don't need to be legal jargon to be legally binding. Besides, what we are trying to do here is fairly simple, so it doesn't need a lot of fancy language. I'll open a PR. I am assuming that we don't have NF standing yet....

njsmith commented 9 years ago

We'll probably need to get a lawyer to look it over to be sure, but yeah, that will have to wait until after NF agrees to take this on (assuming they do!). Writing an email to them about that now, and IIUC their next board meeting is this Mon. . To answer @takluyver's question, I think we'll also want some sort of end-user-friendly document (a FAQ?) that explains the project more generally (what data's being collected, examples of how it will let us do awesome stuff, how the collection works, etc.)?

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Documents don't need to be legal jargon to be legally binding. Besides, what we are trying to do here is fairly simple, so it doesn't need a lot of fancy language. I'll open a PR. I am assuming that we don't have NF standing yet....

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