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<p>On 10/23/20 3:54 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 29.09.20 um 14:41 schrieb Patrick
Cloke:<br>
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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
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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 think the frank response is that we have not checked with
anyone versed in the laws here to know what is OK and what isn't.
(I suspect this also varies quite a bit by country, I do not
believe it is common for all employees to be named this way in the
US, for instance.) In the past I don't think it was much of an
issue as the team was small and it the employees were all fairly
open about self-identifying. I agree that this should be
re-evaluated as the team grows.<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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<p>I understand your points. I do not believe you're trying to imply
this, but to clarify there has not been an effort to actively <i>hide</i>
who is being paid to work on Thunderbird. In the past we have
encouraged people to introduce themselves, although it is possible
this hasn't been done with more recent hires!</p>
<p>I'll file up with the team and see if they have any thoughts on
this as I don't want to be putting words in anyone's mouth about
what they may or may not want public.</p>
<p>--Patrick<br>
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