Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] embedding a Twitter "Follow" and facebook follow

2016-01-26 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the response. My vote is also no; Sugar Labs should not give other organisations an unrestricted and unreviewed code execution path for machines under the control of children, parents, or teachers. Not even OLPC has that right. Sugar Labs always reviews code contributions from OLPC in

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] embedding a Twitter "Follow" and facebook follow

2016-01-26 Thread samson goddy
You got it all wrong. The question you should ask is that why is Sugar Labs organization and OLPC is using facebook and twitter? why create an account with them? for me, the reason is to boost the knowledge of what SugarLabs or OLPC is having e.g like a camp just like OLPC san francisco and the

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] embedding a Twitter "Follow" and facebook follow

2016-01-26 Thread Sam P.
Hi Samson, I think that you missed the point of what James said. Facebook engages in lots of tracking and questionable business practices, see the Stallman article on this subject [1]. Maybe adding a link could be acceptable (however do we want to send the message that we endorse facebook?), but

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] embedding a Twitter “Follow” and facebook follow

2016-01-26 Thread samson goddy
Sure that it helps track users location to know where your followers are coming from. Also its enables Question and Answers, live streaming in case we have some related sugar workshop. Attracts users to your page. lots more features > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:44:57 +1100 > From: qu...@laptop.or

Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] embedding a Twitter “Follow” and facebook follow

2016-01-25 Thread James Cameron
Interesting idea. What is the privacy impact? Will a content element like this make it possible for Twitter or Facebook to track our visitors? Is that tracking consistent with Sugar Labs own policies on privacy? Will Sugar Labs have a contract with Twitter or Facebook, or is the relationship st