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Re: [loco-contacts] Impersonation using Ubuntu Community resources

 

Creo que es conveniente informarle a la comunidad la decisión que tomo
directamente Canonical frente al caso, de tal forma que quede el
precedente, incluso en el mismo hilo.

Les parece bien?


2014-09-04 20:58 GMT-05:00 Andres Mujica <amujicaz@xxxxxxxxx>:

> FYR,
>
> Sergio que es el bloguero debería cogerle la caña a Stephen y postear al
> respecto.
>
> slds
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Michael Kellat <skellat@xxxxxxx>
> Date: 2014-09-04 20:36 GMT-05:00
> Subject: Re: [loco-contacts] Impersonation using Ubuntu Community resources
> To: loco-contacts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michael Hall <mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Thank you for that Michael.  It is unfortunate to have this happen.  The
> account was seemingly created last December from what I saw.
>
> In general we try not to be too prescriptive but a blog post or two about
> this may be worthwhile.
>
>
> Stephen Michael Kellat
> Leader/Point of Contact, Ubuntu Ohio
> Member, LoCo Council
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Michael Hall wrote:
>
>  Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:29:46 -0400
>> From: Michael Hall <mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: Stephen Michael Kellat <skellat@xxxxxxx>,
>> loco-contacts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Subject: Re: [loco-contacts] Impersonation using Ubuntu Community
>> resources
>>
>> I've brought this to Launchpad Ops' attention and the account has been
>> suspended there.  I've also filed an RT to have the wiki page removed
>> and to make sure this user hasn't done anything else inappropriate.
>>
>> Michael Hall
>> mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> On 09/04/2014 09:18 PM, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not actually sure there is a policy about this, though.  The person
>>> who did this certainly hasn't been keeping up as Mr. Ballmer owns an
>>> professional basketball team in Los Angeles now called the LA Clippers and
>>> left Microsoft a while ago.  Apparently there is a key attached to the
>>> account which means they used Code of Conduct signing assistant after I
>>> pulled the key to look at it.  The key even said it was generated by Code
>>> of Conduct signing assistant!
>>>
>>> Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, ?Ubuntu Latinoam?rica?, Uruguay, and
>>> Venezuela are all moderated teams so it is up to them to remove ~anthonyba
>>> from their teams...if they so choose.  Per? is an open team so a removal
>>> will not do much good there.  Local Communities have the ability to
>>> determine their own membership so they do have the option to nuke this
>>> account from being part of the membership of their groups.
>>>
>>>
>>> That the person went through the trouble of signing the Code of Conduct
>>> in the case means that this bad joke could be escalated and dealt with
>>> under that perhaps.  Since three members of LoCo Council are in the
>>> leadership teams for impacted communities, that puts half the Council as
>>> involved indirectly in the situation.  I really don't want to dump a case
>>> on Community Council so I am going to refrain from suggesting that at the
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> The simplest way forward for the moment is to laugh at the joke, contact
>>> the user to ask how things are going taking ownership of the Clippers, see
>>> if they get thoroughly confused, and then deal with it as you deem best
>>> within your direct sphere of influence.
>>>
>>> Stephen Michael Kellat
>>> Leader/Point of Contact, Ubuntu Ohio
>>> Member, LoCo Council
>>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:05:20 -0500
>>> Andres Mujica <amujicaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> We've got an issue with someone who claims to be "Steve Ballmer"
>>>> according to this wiki
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/steveballmer
>>>>
>>>> and this LP
>>>>
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~anthonyba
>>>>
>>>> I believe that the user is violating the LP and Ubuntu's wiki usage
>>>> terms, so those entries should be removed or blocked as far as I'm
>>>> concerned.
>>>>
>>>> However, I wasn't able to find the right course of action in this
>>>> case, so I just reported the issue with ubuntu-docs and rt.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile I wanted some community insight about how to handle this
>>>> kind of troll.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Andr?s Mujica
>>>> UCO
>>>>
>>>
>>
> Stephen Michael Kellat
>
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