Big +1 On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> 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 accusation > >>> against them -- that they were acting **independently of the account > >>> 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 participated. > >> > >> > >> I have also received a similar unsolicited mail. I would like to know > >> 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 not > >> 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 events > 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 > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- ************************************ David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932
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