Peter Saint-Andre: > But these days the threat model has changed and I think we need to > go beyond merely "open" to "trusted". Yes, trust is a slippery > concept, but in my mind it's connected to things like hardware > (e.g., PNRGs), build processes, transparency of releases, community > governance, software that does what the user intends and no more, > etc. This is something bigger than any particular technology, so > this list might not be the best place to discuss it. Maybe a blog > post or new discussion venue is in order...
There are quite a few existing venues for subsets of these topics or aspects. But none of them so far seems to be appropriate for all of them. I had hoped that the "assembly" which is being organized for 30C3 in Hamburg at the end of this year might be a venue but it also is only about a subset by explicitly rejecting interoperability with federation based approaches. And for the current organisers improving existing open standards also is off-topic. At the same time I am generally not in favor of creating new venues if existing ones can be used by extending their charter. Something for FOSDEM 2014 ? Cheers, Andreas
