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[Steve Pomeroy]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:16:22PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> Oh it's not crucial, you'll have to forgive me if I've put it across
> like this is something that desperately needs doing; it's just that
> ubuntu are surprised by how we run our launchpad team, we grant
> everyone membership.

We do? I thought that we generally at least verified that someone was
related to the group?

What do other groups of comparable size do?

> The it depends, it sounds like the teacher in question is not willing
> for their sexuality to become public, thus talking about it in public
> is probably not the best thing to do. Basically it amounts to being
> able to take responsibility for what you say in public, the arena is
> different from the private world and this is causing a lot of trouble
> with people who don't understand the difference.

In this instance, she has a semi-public online identity that involves
her sexuality and not much involving her real life identity. While she's
open about her sexuality to the world at large and if asked, she doesn't
desire to be advertising it to her students or parents of students
(which would be the case if she used her real life identity when
publicly talking about her sexuality).

The somewhat disconnected identities may not seem like a good security
measure for absolute disassociation between the two identities, but it
works well enough that she doesn't have to worry about paranoid parents
prodding her about things that aren't related to teaching their
children. 

> In this instance if the teacher were to join ubuntu-us-ma I would
> recommend that they not talk about anything they don't want their
> students to be able to find.

Right. In this particular instance it's not as relevant. I was arguing
for the more general case of allowing for someone who wishes to separate
their online and actual identities. I bet that in most instances, an
association with ubuntu-us-ma would be a positive one.

-- 
Steve Pomeroy
http://staticfree.info/
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