[TOS] About the POSSE cohort list privacy settings

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 08:59:12AM -0400, Matthew Jadud wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 01:51, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net> wrote:
> > material still being private. So do you think your list is going to be
> > permanently private?
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> My hope is that the list isn't permanent at all. I think (but could be
> wrong) that the spirit of such a list is for private discussion of
> current/timely events. Anything that's longer term than "right now" is
> (1) almost certainly not a "private" conversation, (2) will benefit
> from community input, and (3) should be killed/nuked/purged after some
> finite period of time. The private list should have no archival
> qualities, IMHO. (Nor do I expect it to have any archival value.)

Since private spaces are key to communities of practice[1], what if we
explicitly delete the archives after the list has served it's purpose?
This could support all the goals Mel laid out, and emphasize the
timely aspect of the situation.

This could also keep the fire under members of the private list to
move anything that is actually worth keeping to *this* list, so the
private list clears out all worthwhile content in real time. I agree
with Kevin that it's unlikely we'll do such a clearing out after the
fact.

- Karsten

[1] https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/Communities_of_practice#Develop_both_public_and_private_community_spaces
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