Photo Group Charter

Name
Photo Group

Purpose
The photo group aims to serve as a community hub for identerati with interests in photography, as a gallery in which identity community photographers can display their work, and as a resource for people looking for photographs which illustrate aspects of identity.

Principles
The photo group solicits photos which are respectful of individual dignity.

The photo group does not publish photos of individuals who object to the publication of those photos.

Members of the photo group do not tag others in photos; people are free to tag themselves in our photos.

Practices
The group will maintain three repositories of photos on flickr.

The three repositories will be

1. Photos of Identity Community Members 2. Photos by Identity Community Members 3. Photos illustrating identity concepts, principles, problems, and solutions

Requirements of Participation and How to Join
Each working group is required by the PurposeAndPrinciples to state its requirements for participation, if any. It should also provide instructions for how to join the working group.

Licenses and/or Restrictions on Usage of Work Product
Photos contributed to the group should be licensed by the photographer as Creative Commons "Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike" license.

The group prefers a share-alike license because it allows people inside and outside the community to use photos to illustrate their documents and presentations.

The group prefers a non-commercial license because identity pictures frequently depict recognizable people, and commercial use of pictures of recognizable people requires not only a license but also a model release. The photo group prefers not to become a repository of model releases, and therefore the group prefers to force discussions of commercial licenses to take place between photographers and commercial users directly rather than on the photo group forums.

The group prefers attribution licenses because we're an identity group, and we think identity should be used to give people credit for their good work.

Current Deliverables and Milestones
Bob Blakley needs to set up the flickr groups which will be used to host the three photo group galleries.

Current Meeting Schedule
The group has no standing meetings; all business is conducted via the web.

Current Membership
Steward: Bob Blakley

Alternate Stewards:

Members: Pamela Dingle Dale Olds

Current Stewards Council Representative and Alternate
Bob Blakley is the current steward of this group.

You may become an alternate steward by volunteering; send Bob an email.

Current Links
Bob Blakley to add flickr links after gallery groups are created.

Related Groups
No current related groups.