Hi,

Two people who participated in the call indicated that they did not know a transcript would be made public and asked that it not be.  As it had not been made clear that the transcript would be posted for the world to see, I have decided to not publish based on these requests.

We need, as the NCSG community to discuss how we wish to handle these transcripts in the future.

In addition to the indication of personal concern about releasing a conversation they had expected not to be released in transcript form, a couple of other concerns were mentioned.  These concerns are probably relevant to future transcripts.

Among the issues are:

- It does not appear that other SGs or constituencies make their transcripts available to the world.  Does it put NCSG at a disadvantage to be the only one to do so?  
- People will not speak as freely if they know there is going to be a public transcript and these Policy discussion meetings need to be wide ranging and candid.
- Transcripts are only approximate and do not allow for editing of one's remarks not even when one misspeaks.
- Seeing all of our verbal failures in print is disturbing (how many times did I say 'Um' or 'like' per sentence ?)

Note there were different concerns about recording or transcripts.  For example the recording for this meeting is available because it was made clear that the recording was being made.  One person's differentiation was that if someone is wiling to spend the hours listening to the recording well, then it is ok, but to be able to do a quick search of a transcript was problematic.

It is possible to create a mailing list for the NCSG, once we get all of the membership stuff squared away, that allows for member's only access to the transcript.  It could also probably be set up that way in a net community like ning.  But this is just an implementations issue.   The first question is:

- No transcripts
- Policy discussion transcripts closed and only available to the policy committee made up of council members and SG leadership
- Policy discussion transcript closed and only available to members of the NCSG
- Policy discussion transcript open to the world.

a.



On 7 Jan 2010, at 14:41, Avri Doria wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I received a question about the appropriateness of publishing the transcript.
> 
> So I have, for the time being, removed it from the website pending this question:
> 
> Of the people on the call yesterday, are there any who object to the publication of the transcript.  Please let me know privately - if you don't want to say so in public.  If I don't hear any objection in the next 48 hours, I will make it available again. If anyone objects, I will not make it public.
> 
> Note:  people were told  it was being recorded and had assumed people had no problem with that.  We did not explicitly mention that a transcirpt would be made available.
> 
> I would also like to ask the question in general:
> 
> Do people accept that these policy discussions be recorded and that the recordings and transcripts be made public?
> 
> thanks
> 
> a.
>