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+# Clojurians Slack Log demo data
+
+This is a small subset of the raw logging data that is gathered from the
+Clojurians Slack community. It is here to help people who want to help improve
+the app that displays these logs, found at
+[clojureverse/clojurians-log-app](https://github.com/clojureverse/clojurians-log-app).
+You can find instructions on what to do with this data over there.
+
+What you find here is the data from the first 9 days of February 2018, as well
+as the data of users and channels that were active during this period.
+
+This is "real" data, with two differences
+
+- user email addresses have been replaced with fakes
+- message text that has been deleted or changed has been scrubbed
+
+## Why don't you just make the raw logs public?
+
+We've considered this. People should assume that what they post on Slack is
+public, so this should be fine, but there are a few reasons why we chose not to
+do this.
+
+A person with bad intentions could use this data to specifically filter and
+search through the chat history of a single person, looking either for
+identifying or incriminating information. This is the main threat model we
+consider. The website with the logs is still public, so a persistent individual
+could still do this, but we're not making it trivial.
+
+Slack allows people to edit or delete messages. In these cases we only display
+(or don't display) the end result. The original message and the change events
+are all present in the raw log data though, and so we choose not to share those.
+That is also why the data in this repo has been processed, to remove such events.
+
+Finally, if a user asks to remove their message history from the archive then we
+must honor that. This would be near impossible if the complete history is a git
+repo that anyone can clone.