[OSGeo-Conf] A couple of technical questions

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 1:28 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello conference committee!
>
> I have a couple of questions for you.
>
> *1.- Who is in charge/knows about the community review software?*
> (I see it in https://community-review.foss4g.org/ ready for FOSS4G Europe)
> We want to develop some tool/prepare it to integrate with Pretalx so
> everything is done automatically and smoothly.
>

There is community review code that’s been used forever that I believe
originated with Paul Ramsey.  I’m not sure if this is the same thing as
you’re asking about.



>
> *2.- Do we have a *@foss4g.org <http://foss4g.org> mail server somewhere? *
> The only *@foss4g.org I have on my personal history is from 2013. Is this
> domain being used for emails right now?
>

Searching SAC tickets might reveal more information on this.  I believe it
has been done for many years.  We used *@foss4g.org emails in 2014 but did
so through other email accounts and servers.  Whether is is possible at
different email providers has changed over the years.



>
> 2.b) Can we move it to Amazon SES?
> We were thinking that, whether we use Sendy or not in the end, we would
> like to try Amazon SES. Because it looks reliable, cheap and has no limit
> on how many emails it can send. We know big companies are harder to get
> listed as spam.
> And then if we finally use Sendy, we can use the same SES to send the
> emails.
>

I think this is really a SAC question.  I don’t see the conference
committee doing this or having a valid opinion on it.


>
> 2.c) Or maybe we already have something in place by the SAC?
> That would be good too, as long as we can guarantee no mails lost and big
> batches of email sent with no restrictions (like the "last instructions to
> attendees" email). I know that having an email server that works 100% fine
> is not an easy thing and if ticket sales mail gets lost, that's critical.
>

This is why I am slightly in favor of systems like mailchimp, constant
contact, or any various others.  These companies manage to (almost) always
be able to send high volume of email quickly and not get blacklisted or
otherwise suffer a failure to promptly send (and deliver) lots of email.
There certainly may be other ways to reliably do the same but it is not an
easy task, it has some risk, and the impacts can be substantial.

Best regards,

Eli



>
> Cheers!
> María.
>
>
>
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