[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

[Fred Bauder]

> While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident
> which made me re-think something on these lines.
> I had a few years back, started creating an open visible search-indexed
> index to ArbCom proceedings.
> Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I would
> necessarily recommend if you end up at ArbCom and then a search on your
> name, get's a top Goog because of an index like mine.
>
> People will common names could simply say it's someone else, but people
> with rare names like Dror Kamir for example, might have some intrepid
> employer say, "Oh Gee you were involved in that whole   xxxx versus yyyy
> big controversy in Wikipedia, I don't think your personality would be a
> good fit here...."
>
> I can see it happening in this connected age, I have done it myself when
> propositioning a new client, to see what's out there on them.  I decided
> to make my index invisible temporarily while I mull this over more.
>
> Will Johnson

I've noticed that old crap from years ago doesn't show on on your eBay
feedback rating. I appreciate that. And, frankly, if someone is doing
good work on Wikipedia now, who cares about some big blowup years ago?

Fred