Re: [paho-dev] Website update to the Eclipse Solstice Theme - any volunt

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

thanks for the input.  The main motivation I had for including the 
Twitter feed was to make the web page more dynamic and useful with 
frequently updated information, which wasn't an extra overhead to maintain.

I presume we could have our own widget which subscribed in some way to a 
Twitter feed, perhaps though our own (MQTT) intermediary.  Would that be 
better?

Ian

On 18/06/2019 12:15, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I'd like to update the Paho website to use the nice clean looking
> > Eclipse Solstice Theme:
> >
> > https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse.org-common/themes/solstice/docs/
> >
> > I think it would also allow us to reinstate the Twitter feed on the
> > home page by allowing us to conform to GDPR regulations.
> I don't follow this, but regardless of GDPR, I think that web pages of
> open source projects should not load third-party resources that engage
> in tracking.  Even if there is a silly "this website uses cookies [but
> doesn't explain that the use is abusive and includes use by third
> parties, which a regular user cannot reasonably expected to understand]"
> click-through.
>
> If there is a button to opt-in to twitter, and there is no twitter load
> anyway, and the button provides meaningful notice, that's something
> else.
>
> Perhaps eclipse could host a mastodon server that doesn't profile users,
> and toot there (and mirror to other services), and that could be loaded.
> (But I realize that's a lot of work.)
>
> (I'm at the moment just a lurker on this list, intending to use some
> paho clients and add them to pkgsrc some day.)
>
> Greg

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Ian Craggs
icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx                 IBM United Kingdom
Eclipse Paho Project Lead & Mosquitto Committer