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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 29.09.20 um 14:41 schrieb Patrick
Cloke:<br>
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cite="mid:0eb784c8-1b8a-5871-39f7-91c15fe81e42@cloke.us">we've
been asked to publish a directory of employees, but we've erred on
the side of releasing less personally identify information (PII)
and allowing those employed by Thunderbird to self-identify</blockquote>
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<p>Me too, I was surprised as well that Thunderbird has so many
employees and I don't even know who they are.</p>
<p>We're an open project. The project is funded by donations, after
all. We should be able to know where the money goes. Thunderbird
is not a private business, but a public utility.<br>
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<p>At least <i>1. who works for Thunderbird, and 2. their role, and
3. some means to contact</i> them, should be the minimum. It is
important for purely practical reasons.</p>
<p>This is not about PII. Nobody is asking for the private phone
numbers or private email addresses, but employees are assigned
@thunderbird.net addresses, so I don't see a problem of publishing
that. This is not personal information, but purely for the job.
There is plenty of precedence for publishing that - city employees
with their name and work phone numbers on the city's website (it's
part of their job), university staff with profile pages etc.<br>
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<p>I am quite puzzled. How am I supposed to work together with
people, if I don't even know they are working here? In the
interest of <b>collaboration</b>, the minimal first step to
collaboration is to know who they are, what they do, and how I can
contact them.</p>
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