Quote from: Brian879 on June 12, 2018, 05:29:18 PM

Quote from: bible_pay on June 12, 2018, 01:41:35 PM

** WCG PODC UPDATE **

We are still waiting for the DPA to be re-written to be more volunteer computing specific.

Robert,

World Community Grid program manager, Juan Hindo, has posted a DPA update in the forums. Here it is the post as well:

Hi Everyone,

Wanted to give you a quick update and a bit of background on the status of our Data Processing Agreement (DPA), which will allow people who agree to it to access World Community Grid data exports, which were previously available before GDPR came into effect.

As many of you are aware, we've been working with lawyers to come up with an agreement that will serve the wishes of volunteers who use the data exports, while ensuring that we are GDPR-compliant, as defined by IBM. We did receive the agreement drafted by lawyers specifically for World Community Grid. But since IBM is a commercial entity that focuses on selling technology solutions, we felt that the agreement drafted for World Community Grid wasn't sufficiently geared towards volunteers. The World Community Grid team feels strongly that, in the long run, it's better for us to continue to work with the legal team to push for an agreement that we believe will meet volunteers' needs as well as IBM's needs, rather than give volunteers an agreement that is more geared towards commercial engagements and is not as relevant to a philanthropic initiative.

Sincere thanks to everyone for their patience during this process. We will use this thread to provide updates.

Many thanks,
Juan

Do you think you're gonna try to wait for that to be finalised before pushing the mandatory this month? or are you gonna make the changes before that and just insert the token id via spork later?

I would be pushing to be late on the mandatory for June and wait for it - if it were not for our June 26th cascading superblock bug that gives us a black eye.

Anyway there is also the possibility that we release the token as a leisure - because exchanges don't need the token. I'm focusing on this plan for now. In this way we might be able to have our mandatory before the superblock bug hits, but it's already the 12th, and we need to test for a couple weeks and also give the exchanges 10 days notice to upgrade, so we might not make it anyway. Let's see how testnet goes.