Re: How Firefox violates the term "Free and Open Source"

2017-12-14 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 13/12/17 19:52, Joe Smith wrote: > There are plenty of Open Source messaging apps such as Signal that don't > restrict users from using the servers based on age. The entire point of Signal is that it collects no information about you whatsoever. That isn't and cannot be true of the services we

Re: How Firefox violates the term "Free and Open Source"

2017-12-13 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
Hi Joe, On 09/12/17 17:20, Joe Smith wrote: > I wanted to express my thoughts over Firefox. Firefox may be a great > browser especially with the new browser that has been released but there is > something that violates the term "Free (as in freedom, not beer) and Open > Source", is the fact that F

Re: module owner for mozilla-toplevel

2017-11-16 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 15/11/17 16:00, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > The appropriate process would have been for Brendan to propose a successor > here like all other modules my guess since he is now gone that Mitchell > would be the next appropriate person to propose a replacement here. Yes; if you need a new mozilla-top

Re: Proposed Update for Email Communications

2017-10-07 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 29/09/17 19:51, Michele Warther wrote: > People who have subscribed to text-only emails will be contacted once > a year be with a link to confirm their interest in receiving text > emails as well as the option to join other lists, update delivery > method etc. We won’t be tracking any usage via

Re: Proposed Update for Email Communications

2017-09-29 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 26/09/17 11:09, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > You did not actually answer anyone’s questions > and taking this off list to privately reach out versus publicly answering > these valid questions is contrary to the working in the open that Mozilla > strives for. > > Please address these questions here

Re: React license and Mozilla/Firefox

2017-08-23 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 22/08/17 09:38, zbranie...@mozilla.com wrote: > It came to light that React license purposefully may impact its users > position. Our legal team is not unaware of this issue, and has done some analysis. I guess it's up to them about how much they are willing to say publicly about the results

Re: Usage of Differential Privacy & RAPPOR

2017-08-22 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 22/08/17 08:07, turin...@gmail.com wrote: > Correct me if i am wrong but this is presented as a solution to > collect data without having to get explicit consent. It is not clear > that user will be able to disabled it or not. If this the case then > please be more clear as it will lead to misun

Re: Usage of Differential Privacy & RAPPOR

2017-08-22 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 22/08/17 07:45, turin...@gmail.com wrote: > But the disagreement is not about the idea that the technology does > not work. But that in principal collecting more data without users > having the option for disable it is moral wrong no matter how > trustworthy you are or useful it is for the produ

Re: Usage of Differential Privacy & RAPPOR

2017-08-22 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
Hello, Redditors... On 21/08/17 08:56, Georg Fritzsche wrote: > One solution is the use of differential privacy [2] [3], which allows us to > collect sensitive data without being able to make conclusions about > individual users, thus preserving their privacy. If you are going to comment here, yo

Re: Are Firefox OS and Gaia modules still relevant?

2017-06-19 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 20/06/17 00:31, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/FirefoxOS lists all the Firefox OS and > Gaia modules. Are these modules still relevant? Can this entire page be > removed? Good point. Unless I hear an objection, I will remove the entire page. Gerv

Lists of Countries and Regions

2017-06-01 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
Hi all, You may remember back in 2015 in mozilla.governance we discussed various aspects of the problem of making lists of countries/regions and what the name of each country or region should be. The results of the discussion were to make it Mozilla best practice to use the US Government's GENC li

Re: New module proposal: DOM File Handling

2017-05-01 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 29/04/17 05:52, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > I think this is a good idea, but I suggest "DOM File" as the name. There DOM: File to match the other DOM: components. Gerv ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/l

Re: Module updates for URL Classifier

2017-04-26 Thread Gervase Markham via governance
On 25/04/17 16:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > - Remove Ryan Kelly from Peers Don't forget to make him a peer emeritus, unless there's some reason not to. Gerv ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/