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

[Daniel Morissette]

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.

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