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

[David William Bitner]

Big +1

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> Agree w/ Daniel in all ways. We want our events to succeed, no? So we
> use marketing techniques to do so. Emails and so on. And we track who
> opens them so we can get better at marketing. Like any other business
> trying to succeed. Mail chimp is currently convenient, in the past
> other technologies were convenient (I spammed people in 2007 using a
> custom perl script, because I am a God Among Men), in the future
> different technologies will be convenient. But they are all going
> towards making a good event.
>
> Naturally the first targets of marketing the event will be people who
> have attended past events under the same/similar umbrella. I provided
> the 2007 attendance list to foss4g events for a number of years until
> it had grown entirely stale. I felt good about it. I revelled in the
> goodness of it.
>
> I have spammed. I will spam again, in the service of a good cause.
> That is my weakness. That is my strength.
>
> P.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Daniel Morissette
> <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Morissette
> > http://www.mapgears.com/
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> >
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