+* Q: What's this about transparency?
+ - A: We are funded under NLnet's Privacy and Enhanced Trust Programme
+ <https://nlnet.nl/PET>. The mandate is so that people to be able to
+ trust what we are doing, and for independent audits to be able to
+ take place. Therefore, development discussion needs to be under
+ resources within our control to record (i.e. not github). Even the
+ IRC channel is logged.
+* Q: So I have to record *everything*?
+ - A: No, just make sure to use the bugtracker, mailing lists, IRC channel
+ gitolite3 and FTP server for general day-to-day *development*. Not
+ your "personal conversations" or (if a Professor for example) your
+ Lectures which happen to mention LibreSOC.
+* Q: That sounds nerve-wracking!
+ - A: This is just how Libre software development is done: entirely publicly!
+ There is nothing new here in 30+ years of Libre software development,
+ it's just that it's a condition of involvement rather than optional.
+ [sotto voice: and to be honest the traffic volume is so high and it's
+ of such specialist interest that nobody's going to be looking who isn't
+ genuinely interested :) ]
+ An additional very important reason: we need proof of prior art,
+ in case some idiotic patent troll tries to patent ideas they happen
+ to get a glimpse of. By keeping the full and complete discussion
+ on recorded **timestamped** archives such efforts may be invalidated.
+