There has been a lot of debate behind the scenes on whether or not this information should be made public
There should be no debate about this. All this information is circumstantial and is/was public. The community should almost always be informed and be left to come up with their own conclusions. Thanks @deltik and @dutch for the investigation and compilation of this information.
In complete agreement. This runs contrary to all our goals and ethos and transparency is extremely important to us.
This may be your ethos/perspective, but it's not the gridcoin networks' stance - it is a decentralized network which does not impose such ideologies upon its userbase.
Perhaps transparency in its developers intentions/actions and the work units being actually computed within BOINC projects, but demanding absolute transparency from network participants is absurd.
Everything with Gridcoin is behind the scenes.. You have to kiss ass and be in the " in " club/clique , I gave it the GRC8 nickname thank you very much. You would not want an open community project to actually have the whole community able to participate and voice their views and ideas , they might not match your own and you may not be able to push your own agenda.