[OSGeo Oceania] A discussion on openness

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Firstly, thanks to the old Committee members, & congratulations to the new
members!

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 10:52, Violaine <violaine at posteo.net> wrote:

> Also, I know that some opendata communities had issues at a time because
> when they engaged they had some confidentiality clauses. For example,
> messages shared in private channels (out of mailing lists) were
> confidentials... It think it would be heathier that all but sensitive ones
> (personal informations) would be sharable in further discussions in mailing
> lists.
>
I'd like to back-up what Violaine said here, by saying that just all
discussions should be open? I can see that there would be some commercial
matters regarding sponsorship & possibly venue hire etc that may need to be
secret, & possibly also (but hopefully not) personal matters if a member
ever needed to be disciplined, but beyond those I can't really see any
reason for secrecy?

& as for how to talk? I'm another one that likes mailing lists via e-mail!
Having multiple communications channels has always been a bit of an issue
for OSM, in that if you don't belong to eg "this forum", you miss out on
things being discussed. I'd really like us to avoid that, if at all
possible!

Thanks

Graeme
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