[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Privacy Policy

[Andrea Ross]

Dear Gert-Jan, Everyone

I would be happy to comment on contact list practice at the Eclipse 
Foundation in case it is helpful.

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.

Note that I am not a lawyer, and this is not formal legal advice. I will 
comment on practice at the Eclipse Foundation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hope this helps,

Andrea

On 18/12/15 07:53, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote:
> 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), 

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