Ian Clarke writes: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z4s0D1M9HL0xCrf1tdaKGm5U3-WJBwRdMSvyj975WaA/edit?usp=sharing > This document should be accessible via Tor for anonymous users.
I will not contribute to any workflow which requires Google Docs. Core technical reasons: - It excludes those of our users who assume (not unreasonably) that Google might de-anonymize them. - It also excludes those who do not run Tor but only use Freenet for anonymous communication. - It does not work without Javascript. Many of our users disable Javascript, especially on Tor. - People who follow the mailing list cannot follow the discussion and development of the document. This makes the work intransparent for most of our community. - It is a non-free platform, so this workflow could be cut at any time. This is much more important here than for short drafting of a text for the website, because we’re actually trying to find a community decision. If we claim this to be democratic (as we do on the website), we cannot exclude a major part of our users. Personal reason: When I told Ian about my reservations against using Google Docs, essentially the reasons I gave here, the discussion got personal. I won’t go into details here, but it hurt. If it had not been for that, I would have followed a community decision about Google Docs, just like I did about using Github. However this crossed the point of being about being reasonable. That’s why my decision not to use Google Docs here is final. Ian is taking care of financial matters of Freenet, which I am very grateful for. He founded Freenet and did great work on it in the past, and I happily help carrying on the vision he drafted. But I will not let myself be insulted for disagreeing with his assessment of implementation details of the best way forward. I bring this here, because I am not the first who is angry about something similar. It is not how I want to work. Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
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