GNU Essentials template from Pidgin testing.
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5.7 Privacy and Informed Consent – Participant Testing
For the purposes of content creation, keep personal information private where ethical. In other words, do not publish personally identifiable information such as personal address or personal phone number without permission. In fact, when conducting participant testing, refrain from using personal information about the participant unless permission is granted. The privacy template is found below and you can create a simple script for the users to fill out.
The following markdown form example was using in GNU Linux participant testing for a chat client, Pidgin.
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Informed Consent Participant Testing Template
At GNU Essentials, we respect your privacy and this agreement sets terms you are comfortable with.
Content License for recording
[ ] GFDL
[ ] Public Domain
[ ] CC
If you have no privacy selections, skip this section.
Privacy and use
We like to share results with the project - In this case, You select the terms you are comfortable when it comes to sharing the Participant Capture/recording(s).
Video Capture recording
[ ] Only internal to testing - does not include external projects
[ ] Share recording with the project (Pidgin)
[ ] Public
[ ] Other terms:
Audio capture recording
[ ] Only internal to testing - does not include external projects
[ ] Share recording with the project (Pidgin)
[ ] Public
[ ] Other terms:
Webcam capture recording
[ ] N/A
[ ] Only internal to testing - does not include external projects
[ ] Share recording with the project (Pidgin)
[ ] Public
[ ] Other terms:
Extracted Images from recording
[ ] Only internal to testing - does not include external projects
[ ] Share recording with the project (Pidgin)
[ ] Public
[ ] Other terms:
Personal information
[ ] Do not share my name or personal information
[ ] Use my alias ______________
[ ] Call me anything
[ ] Other terms:
Log Files - Bash history
[ ] N/A
[ ] Only internal to testing - does not include external projects
[ ] Share recording with the project (Pidgin)
[ ] Public
[ ] Other terms:
Acceptance of this Policy
I agree the following terms were not coercive and are the terms under which I would prefer for the content.
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