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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Gert-Jan, Everyone<br>
<br>
I would be happy to comment on contact list practice at the
Eclipse Foundation in case it is helpful. <br>
<br>
Before I do, I would like to say I am heartened to see the
responses saying enough LocationTech bashing. It was past the
point of absurd & destructive for a while. So thank you.<br>
<br>
Note that I am not a lawyer, and this is not formal legal advice.
I will comment on practice at the Eclipse Foundation. <br>
<br>
For what it's worth, in my opinion, for many of the things like
the code of conduct, privacy policy, and so forth, OSGeo really
should explicitly run them by a lawyer and periodically get legal
advice to make sure they reflect current
practice/precedent/legislation.<br>
<br>
The Eclipse Foundation contacts recent past attendees of
conferences in a given region in the understanding they are
interested customers. We use Mailchimp as it seems to be one of
the better tools these days. Like Paul shared, we used different
tools in the past, and will use different tools in the future no
doubt.<br>
<br>
As a personal note... I have been getting emails about FOSS4G
events since 2007. They are normal. I understand why they are
emailing me and I support and feel it's a good thing also.<br>
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Regarding the FOSS4G NA list we used for the recent email. Some
emails were provided to us from past events held in North America.
It was our understanding they were past attendees/interested
people/ customers/people who opted in. As Rob said, we apologize
if there were people on that list who shouldn't have been and thus
had to unsubscribe. For what it's worth, only half a percent of
people on the list have unsubscribed... and you can guess who from
this email discussion thread.<br>
<br>
No emails passed to us have been incorporated into any other lists
we maintain. They have been strictly used for FOSS4G NA only, and
sparingly.... just 4 emails so far over 2 years and strictly
related to the key/most important conference announcements.<br>
<br>
We have also used a number of explicit opt-in contacts from
LocationTech. There are 120K+ people who explicitly signed up to
receive our monthly newsletter. We promote the conference once or
twice to it as well for example.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
<br>
Andrea<br>
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On 18/12/15 07:53, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:007901d13993$223ca2f0$66b5e8d0$@nl"
type="cite"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB">We do have contact with LocationTech ;-). And I
suppose LocationTech (or Eclipse) does have an more detailed
view of the legal do's and don'ts than my observations. How
about asking LocationTech for a legal advice on this issue (just
the facts, no opinions please), </span></blockquote>
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