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Right, but surely they have resources at the school if they need technical assistance. It's a university. Just find any CS major and they'll tell you how to set

Right, but surely they have resources at the school if they need technical assistance. It's a university. Just find any CS major and they'll tell you how to set up a website.

Benlights 5y ago
It's not the technical assistance needed it's the legal review. Go get that from a CS major.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
  You don't need a legal review. • A static site without JavaScript; • with all images / external resources hosted on the same domain; • where the logs are default configuration, don't leave the server (except as GoAccess reports), and are deleted / anonymised eventually; is GDPR-compliant. Sure, there are other ways to be compliant, but this works, and is basically the default way of setting up a website. It's not hard to check whether this is how your website works.
  - dogleash 5y ago
    When you put together that simple bulletpoint approach you still leveraged baselevel knowledge about the GDPR that would be ridiculous to assume of a CS major.
    - wizzwizz4 5y ago
      I'm not even a CS major. I just read the thing. It's not that long. https://gdpr-info.eu/ https://gdpr-info.eu/ You can get this knowledge with just the first 7 articles.
  - oytis 5y ago
    I miss the web of the 90s too. User expectations and web economy have changed a lot since then though.
  - Turing_Machine 5y ago
    > is basically the default way of setting up a website It's not the default way of setting up an online content management system to which student journalists can post articles without going through some convoluted command-line build process ("...then you do a git commit and push, run the Hugo script, and rsync the files to the server"... yeah, no.) > It's not hard to check whether this is how your website works. Since they're using a third-party content management system, they most likely neither know nor even care how the website works. Why should they? They're journalists, not system administrators. As others have noted, this is an independent student newspaper. Their normal readership outside the Purdue community is probably in the low single digits on a percentage basis, and their EU readership is likely close to non-existent. They (or, more likely, the people who run the CMS for them) have concluded that a full audit of their system to ensure GPDR compliance is simply not worth it for the minuscule number of additional readers they'd gain. And they're almost certainly right.
dogleash 5y ago
I don't know about you, but when I was at school I didn't have much luck getting randos from other majors to do free work for me. I collaborated with some EE and ME students on personal projects, but they were 1) more interesting than GDPR and 2) friends.
- bubblethink 5y ago
  I don't know how this newspaper works, but typically the team itself will comprise students from different majors, seniority, etc. So it's not a question of begging for help or money.

Right, but surely they have resources at the school if they need technical assistance. It's a university. Just find any CS major and they'll tell you how to set up a website.

Benlights 5y ago

It's not the technical assistance needed it's the legal review. Go get that from a CS major.

wizzwizz4 5y ago
You don't need a legal review. • A static site without JavaScript; • with all images / external resources hosted on the same domain; • where the logs are default configuration, don't leave the server (except as GoAccess reports), and are deleted / anonymised eventually; is GDPR-compliant. Sure, there are other ways to be compliant, but this works, and is basically the default way of setting up a website. It's not hard to check whether this is how your website works.
- dogleash 5y ago
  When you put together that simple bulletpoint approach you still leveraged baselevel knowledge about the GDPR that would be ridiculous to assume of a CS major.
  - wizzwizz4 5y ago
    I'm not even a CS major. I just read the thing. It's not that long. https://gdpr-info.eu/ https://gdpr-info.eu/ You can get this knowledge with just the first 7 articles.
- oytis 5y ago
  I miss the web of the 90s too. User expectations and web economy have changed a lot since then though.
- Turing_Machine 5y ago
  > is basically the default way of setting up a website It's not the default way of setting up an online content management system to which student journalists can post articles without going through some convoluted command-line build process ("...then you do a git commit and push, run the Hugo script, and rsync the files to the server"... yeah, no.) > It's not hard to check whether this is how your website works. Since they're using a third-party content management system, they most likely neither know nor even care how the website works. Why should they? They're journalists, not system administrators. As others have noted, this is an independent student newspaper. Their normal readership outside the Purdue community is probably in the low single digits on a percentage basis, and their EU readership is likely close to non-existent. They (or, more likely, the people who run the CMS for them) have concluded that a full audit of their system to ensure GPDR compliance is simply not worth it for the minuscule number of additional readers they'd gain. And they're almost certainly right.

dogleash 5y ago

I don't know about you, but when I was at school I didn't have much luck getting randos from other majors to do free work for me. I collaborated with some EE and ME students on personal projects, but they were 1) more interesting than GDPR and 2) friends.

bubblethink 5y ago
I don't know how this newspaper works, but typically the team itself will comprise students from different majors, seniority, etc. So it's not a question of begging for help or money.