Holding more discussions in public

[Ean Schuessler]

100% agreed here, John. 

This is a policy that should have been coming for a long time. It would also 
be ultra-cool if SPI would "declassify" anything in its historical list 
archives that does not fall under the privacy statements you've outlined.

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 1:37 pm, John Goerzen wrote:
> I have noticed that there are a number of discussions here that are held
> on -board or -prviate when there is no real need for them to not be on
> -general.  Some of them are on both -board *and* -private, which seems
> extra silly.  I'd like to propose this:
>
>  * Elimination of board-private mailing list and the repeal
>    of 2003-03-11.iwj.1.  That list is never used anyway.
>
>  * When carrying out discussions, we should be able to assume that:
>    + Everyone subscribed to spi-board is also subscribed to spi-private
>    + Everyone subscribed to spi-private is also subscribed to
>      spi-general
>
>  * All conversation, discussion, debates, updates, etc. should be
>    carried out on spi-general (or a different public SPI list) unless
>    there is a compelling reason not to.
>
>  * All remaining conversation should be carried out on spi-private
>    unless there is a compelling reason that it should be restricted to
>    members of the board.
>
> I could think of only one example of something that would go to
> spi-private:
>
>  * Private information about financial transactions or addresses
>    (that is, a donor may not wish to be publically identified)
>
> And I could only think of one example of something that should go to
> spi-board:
>
>  * Confidential discussions with SPI legal counsel
>
> I think that most of the conversations in spi-board, and a goot number
> of them in spi-private, have no need to be held in private.
>
> To implement this, we'll need a resolution repealing 2003-03-11.iwj.1.
> I don't think we need resolutions for the rest of it.

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