[Linux-aus] contest proposal

[Nathan Bailey]

To make this more concrete/actionable:
1. I think there is a large enough corpus of people who think this is a
good idea to pursue it;
2. Clearly it will have more weight/value if it's officially endorsed by
LCA (which awaits a new council);
3. There's no reason we can't develop a full proposal now for council to
review/approve when ready.

At this stage, the following people have put up their hand in some way:

   - John Dalton
   - Hugh Blemings
   - Russell Coker
   - Jonathan Woithe (?)

I am also willing to contribute.

Jonathan (or others from council), if there's a preferred format for such
proposals, please let me know.

I have drafted a bare bones proposal and a process in this Google doc
<http://John Dalton Hugh Blemings Russell Coker Jonathan Woithe>.
(Viewing/commenting is open; if you want editing access, use the 'request'
process in the Google doc)
-N

On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 11:29, Cameron Simpson via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> On 01Jan2024 14:14, russell at coker.com.au <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> >On Monday, 1 January 2024 13:18:40 AEDT Info via linux-aus wrote:
> >> Use Firefox as an example. Installing NoScript reduces all overheads
> >> by
> >> heaps. Gone is most of the spyware, trackware, and general junkware.
> Make
> >> Noscript style controls standard built in.
> >
> >What does NoScript break?  We need documentation on this, and maybe some
> >changes to defaults of OS installs.
>
> NoScripts breaks lots of stuff, largely because many sites (a) are
> totally dependent on JavaScript for the basics (there are eg
> news/magazine sites which don't even render article text unless you turn
> on some of their JS) and (b) some sites, particularly TV VOD sites eg
> CBS which pull JS from a frankly obscene number of third parties (eg
> something like 20 different sources for CBS when last I had to visit it
> some years back).
>
> NoScript lets you enable (permanently and temporarily) various JS
> sources and also disable permanently (hi facebook and google analytics).
>
> But having a functional web does require one to whitelist some JS from
> various places for various sites.
>
> I run NoScript in my firefox, and I love it. But there's per-user admin
> pain.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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