[liberationtech] First full report on the largest humanitarian crowdsourcing initiative to date

The first full report about Mission 4636 Crowdsourcing and Crisis-affect Community is now at: http://www.mission4636.org/report/ The page contains a link to the report which will be published in the Journal of Information Retrieval, a summary of findings/recommendations, and the comments from

Re: [liberationtech] FB-like Twitter-connect soon. How can we avoid all this tracking?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2012 01:50 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Does anyone have an opinion on the browser plugin Ghostery? [3] It seems to allow web browser users to block these cross site tracking bugs, however I have not yet tested Ghostery fully.

[liberationtech] HCI International 2013 - Call for Participation

HCI International 2013 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction thematic areas: -Human-Computer Interaction -Human Interface and the Management of Information affiliated conferences: -10th International

Re: [liberationtech] Urgent question

This is a public email list, so everything on it is public in some way. Anyone in the world can sign up for the list, and any subscriber can view the list archives (ie, this thread is at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/private/liberationtech/2012-June/004093.html). You can see the archives

Re: [liberationtech] Urgent question

Sam makes a great point. In general, it is a best practice to assume that anything posted to a mailing list like this (or any other form of social media) is public, regardless of any privacy settings. Even if the list is not indexed by the maintainers, any member could choose to copy the

[liberationtech] Outside of the list/listmembers is Libtech basically private, or basically public? WAS - Re: Urgent question

I believe we have also agreed, generally, as a community, that the content here should not be shared broadly outside the list, or consider on the record unless you request the consent of the initial poster. I hope others will state whether they think this is the case, or not? I know that the

Re: [liberationtech] Outside of the list/listmembers is Libtech basically private, or basically public? WAS - Re: Urgent question

Brian, Yes, I agree that the community believes these things. The problem is that a malicious actor could sign up for the list and forward messages posted to it. The admins allow freemail users to subscribe, so this is a credible attack vector. While I trust the members of the community would

Re: [liberationtech] Outside of the list/listmembers is Libtech basically private, or basically public? WAS - Re: Urgent question

from our list policy: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Liberationtech is a moderated but open list, which means that anyone can join. As a friendly reminder, please take the necessary security and privacy precautions such as using pseudonyms, fake email addresses,

Re: [liberationtech] Urgent question

From the policy page: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech (*The subscribers list is only available to the list administrator.*) --t On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Greg Norcie g...@norcie.com wrote: Sam makes a great point. In general, it is a best practice to

Re: [liberationtech] Outside of the list/listmembers is Libtech basically private, or basically public? WAS - Re: Urgent question

Regarding community standards, I think that it depends on context. For instance, when someone posts an event or a job listing to this list, I will often forward it on under the assumption that people want it to be public, but I typically don't forward on any discussions of security or particular