Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy: [was FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o]

2015-12-18 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 17/12/15 20:28, Jody Garnett wrote: We have a different understanding of foss4g Maxi. I imagine that this is a reaction to > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:08 AM Massimiliano Cannata > wrote: >> 4- FOSS4G is the OSGeo's label of their Free and Open Source >> Software For Geospatial confe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy: [was FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o]

2015-12-18 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
All, I believe the point is not if it was nice or not to receive a message for being aware of events (that we will be aware in any case thanks to the social media and mailing lists) but rather if it is appropriate (or even legal?) perform these unsolicited mail campaign and the sharing of these dat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy: [was FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o]

2015-12-18 Thread Ian Edwards
I support Paul and Steven's approach (and thank them for their actions to help keep the community aware of events) -- but I think it's also certainly the case that there is always a set of people on our mailing lists who have a strong preference that their details are not shared in a way they do no

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy: [was FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o]

2015-12-17 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Maxi, I love the constructive research that you have started here. Email privacy was not as topical when foss4g email lists started getting collected, and tracing technologies such as mail chimp were as assessable as mail chimp is now. So we are right to retrospectively develop our policy i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy: [was FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o]

2015-12-17 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the productive discussion - some of those privacy policies seem to be website specific ( rather than for an organization as a whole ). We just are rebooting the webcom so the timing is good for a privacy discussion. It may be easier to start here and then branch out to project / committ

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy: [was FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o]

2015-12-17 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Dear Gert, deal all, after a few days of discussion I would like to sum up some considerations to re-focus to subject of my first e-mail and that in my opinion should led OSGeo foundation to at least one or two argument for discussion. 1- Some FOSS4G events made use of "aggressive" marketing strat