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From: Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: dilfridge@g.o, comrel@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:07:00
Message-Id: 20180620150648.nmbca6mwmj2ujrn5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications by "Michał Górny"
1 On 18-06-20 10:16:01, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Hello, everyone.
3 >
4 > I'd like to revive the topic of requiring date-of-birth for developers.
5 > Currently, we 'require' this date in developer applications and store it
6 > in our LDAP (it's not public). However, I'm not aware of any good
7 > justification for collecting this kind of personal information.
8 >
9 > The Trustees are apparently 'researching' the topic since at least
10 > Feb 2017 [1], and haven't reached anything yet [2]. In the meantime,
11 > applicants are asked to provide their DoB with no clear explanation why
12 > they need to do that or how it's going to be used (the last part of dev
13 > quiz [3]).
14 >
15 > So unless someone can provide *a really good reason* to request this
16 > kind of information, I'd like to propose that we remove the question
17 > from the developer quiz, and remove collected birthday dates from LDAP.
18 >
19 > What do you think?
20 >
21 > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Meetings/2017/02#prometheanfire
22 > [2]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Meetings/2018/06#alicef
23 > [3]:https://projects.gentoo.org/comrel/recruiters/quizzes/developer-quiz.txt
24 >
25 > --
26 > Best regards,
27 > Michał Górny
28
29 I don't appreciate the whole 'researching' thing. This keeps happening.
30 I'm cc'ing dilfridge as I'd prefer this type of behavior to stop. I'll
31 respond to this request for info in a separate email so as to not
32 distract from it.
33
34 --
35 Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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