On 6 March 2013 22:11, Keegan wrote:
That's my understanding as well. I have a NDA with the WMF as a volunteer from a couple years ago to help with fundraising after I no longer contracted for the foundation in order to access the donations CRM. Frankly, I don't know if I can even log into that anymore...l
Well, I believe it is pretty obvious that one has to sign an NDA when dealing with such information as that available from donors; the donor policy https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donor_policy/en mentions names, addresses and phone numbers of our donors as well as "data visible on the checkques", so I guess it's pretty serious.
I agree that one of the reasons for the existence of NDAs is to protect people's privacy, especially when one has access to such databases as the fundraising one; however, I can't see why a Bugzilla administrator would be required to sign an NDA -- is there anything secret when it comes to bugs in a GPL-licenced software? Or maybe there is a different reason for signing the NDA? Perhaps the admins can access some sensitive data other than IP addresses, etc., which volunteer checkusers and oversighters also have access to, without the need to sign anything?
And just by the way (I think Sarah mentioned that): you just need to Google for "non-disclosure agreement" to find examples of organisations publicly sharing their NDAs--since it is no secret what is usually covered by such documents, why would the WMF not publish their NDA?