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+1 Arnulf (OSGeo President Emeritus) On 16.12.2015 18:16, Paul Ramsey wrote: > Agree w/ Daniel in all ways. We want our events to succeed, no? So we > use marketing techniques to do so. Emails and so on. And we track who > opens them so we can get better at marketing. Like any other business > trying to succeed. Mail chimp is currently convenient, in the past > other technologies were convenient (I spammed people in 2007 using a > custom perl script, because I am a God Among Men), in the future > different technologies will be convenient. But they are all going > towards making a good event. > > Naturally the first targets of marketing the event will be people who > have attended past events under the same/similar umbrella. I provided > the 2007 attendance list to foss4g events for a number of years until > it had grown entirely stale. I felt good about it. I revelled in the > goodness of it. > > I have spammed. I will spam again, in the service of a good cause. > That is my weakness. That is my strength. > > P. > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Daniel Morissette > <dmorisse...@mapgears.com> wrote: >> On 2015-12-16 10:00 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: >>> >>> On 2015/12/16 18:37, Pat Tressel wrote: >>>> >>>> MailChimp is a very popular product. If you have a provable accusat ion >>>> against them -- that they were acting **independently of the accoun t >>>> administrator** to alter lists, then that would be significant. As Rob >>>> has stated, MailChimp did not do something by itself. The list was >>>> aggregated from previous lists and events in which people participa ted. >>> >>> >>> I have also received a similar unsolicited mail. I would like to kno w >>> who has authorized >>> the aggregation and usage of email address from "previous lists and >>> events in which >>> people participated". I think every event has a privacy policy and >>> e-mail address provided >>> are only to be used for communicating about the specific event and n ot >>> for aggregating for >>> future use. >>> >> >> >> For the record, the use of such mailing services for FOSS4G promotion is not >> new. Even FOSS4G 2015 (Seoul) used MailChimp in a very similar way, I still >> have some of their mails in my archives, and I'm sure other past even ts did >> as well but I didn't bother digging any further. >> >> How can you realistically expect to do outreach to new people if you only >> announce your event on osgeo-discuss? >> >> This anti-anything-locationtech-does drama is becoming boring, please let's >> get over it. >> >> -- >> Daniel Morissette >> http://www.mapgears.com/ >> T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 >> >> http://evouala.com/ - Location Intelligence Made Easy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > - -- Arnulf Christl (Director) The metaspatial Institute Certification: Open Source - Open Data - Open Standards http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZxrTcACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2M0QCffok3bFnVAFIfCYADXfj0wVz4 oagAn3q+goo+de/clrQPWdN8hgVSaUbz =8lx2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss