Racket Slack archive update: privacy concerns

[D. Ben Knoble]

Update on the project to host an archive of the Racket Slack: I have been

directed to some privacy issues with the current proof-of-concept. Until these

issues are resolved, I have made the repository private and taken down the site.

If you have a copy of the archive files or site, I must ask that you refrain

from using them publicly until those impacted have a chance to decide what to

do.

If you wish to participate in the discussion, please join the Racket Slack [1,2]

and use the channel #slack-archive. You can also reach out privately to me and

Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, as we have become the organizers behind the archive. So

that I remain accountable and transparent, I would prefer any private

communication with me to include Sam.

The crux of the issue is data privacy: What data is in the archive? What are we

doing with private data? How are we using data from the archive? How are we

going to explain that to people? What will opt-in/opt-out look like? &c. More

details in Slack.

[1] https://racket.slack.com/

[2] https://racket-slack.herokuapp.com/