There is a growing concern that the meeting recordings could be used to create impersonations of community members. Some members have asked that we stop publishing public recordings.
The following options were proposed in the maintainers SIG call and a vote the preferred option was suggested:
👍 Leave the recordings up (accept the risk)
😄 Flag the videos as not to be used in training data (wouldn’t protect against targeted attacks, but still helpful)
🎉 Make the recordings private to the community (unlisted on YouTube by default, accessible via playlist or links in a doc)
❤️ Make the recordings expire or become unlisted after some time period (or only accessible to GC / admins eventually)
🚀 Rely on transcripts
👀 Rely on manual notes
More information as per @dyladan's comment below:
There are several other factors at play here aside from the preferences of the people voting on github. Specifically, we may have legal obligations relating to the right to be forgotten in certain jurisdictions. I'll reach out to the CNCF to see if they can provide guidance in this area. The people voting here are not a representative sample of affected people. Most people who join the meetings are not maintainers and are unlikely to see community issues like this one. Most of them are also not public personas and they may not be as comfortable with public recordings of themselves as others who are more used to being public. As mentioned by others, some changes may also require charter changes which falls under the purview of the GC
We should also consider that the solution may involve aspects of multiple options in the poll. I think nearly everyone agrees some expiration/retention policy is an improvement on what we already have. We know from the maintainers meeting that some people are definitely using these recordings and we don't want to exclude them from the project, but most of the usefulness of the recordings is lost after a short period of time. We need to make sure that we're balancing the need for privacy with the usefulness of the public recordings. I think most would also agree that better meeting notes would be an improvement for everyone, not just people who can't attend meetings.
It is okay to vote for multiple options.