[OSGeo-Conf] A couple of technical questions

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 5:09 AM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 1:28 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
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>> Hello conference committee!
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>> I have a couple of questions for you.
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>> *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.
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> 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.
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>> *2.- Do we have a *@foss4g.org <http://foss4g.org> mail server somewhere?
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>> The only *@foss4g.org I have on my personal history is from 2013. Is
>> this domain being used for emails right now?
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> 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.
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I may have misspoken.  I believe most years used *@osgeo.org email
aliases.  This 2018 ticket requests @foss4g.org emails but gets @osgeo.org
emails.  I vaguely recall a technical reason for that.
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2007

Eli


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>> 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.
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> I think this is really a SAC question.  I don’t see the conference
> committee doing this or having a valid opinion on it.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Best regards,
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> Eli
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>> Cheers!
>> María.
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