[FOSS4G2016] IRC Chat Today

[Steven Feldman]

I agree with Marc. The LOC are the good guys, you are trying to run a successful community event, you aren’t running a Nigerian mail scam or trying to plant viruses.

The norm in the UK is that it s legitimate to mail someone if they have ‘previously expressed interest’ and I would say that attending a previous FOSS4G etc counts as having expressed interest. The important thing is to have a way for people who don’t want to receive our mail to opt out and MailChimp does that pretty elegantly

I wish their was a way to switch off one or two of the unthinking noisy voices on mailing lists (others might feel the same way about me though)

Enough, on this

My best wishes to everyone for the holiday season and for a healthy and peaceful new year
______
Steven


> On 17 Dec 2015, at 14:10, Marc Vloemans <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am all for mailing regardless of..... If people object....as the French say: tant pis!
> 
> We have an event to organise which is done by volunteers for a rather laudable cause.
> If people disagree....well, we have larger fish to fry.
> 
> Vriendelijke groet,
> Marc Vloemans
> 
> 
>> Op 17 dec. 2015 om 18:28 heeft Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
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>> Hey Codrina,
>> to me this mail looks rather paranoid and uninformed.
>> 
>> For us it presents a major problem because we cannot use MailChimp to
>> organize the sponsor outreach. I am currently evaluating other options.
>> 
>> But if we really take this serious then we cannot send any mail to
>> anybody at all if we must first solicit for their approval. This is
>> ridiculous - as many have confirmed including Paul Ramsey, Sanghee Shin,
>> Ian Edwards, Puneet Kishor, Jeroen Ticheler,  Daniel Morissette and
>> others. So from all that I can tell the large majority is fine with
>> sending out Mails to people for sponsorship.
>> 
>> Currently Jody Garnett is even proposing that OSGeo use Location Tech's
>> mail list to send out information regarding OSGeo's relation to LT. That
>> list contains 120 thousand recipients! I'd really like to see
>> announcements of FOSS4G go there too! Let's see what will become of this
>> .
>> 
>> What do others think?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Arnulf
>> 
>> 
>>> On 17.12.2015 11:19, Codrina Maria Ilie wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Although it might be old news, just a small attention mark towards the
>>> OSGeo discuss list latest conversations related to the LT  mailing lis
>> t
>>> collection.
>>> 
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.osgeo.org/msg13586.html
>>> 
>>> regards,
>>> Codrina
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 17/12/15 11:49, Marc Vloemans wrote:
>>>> Guys/galls
>>>> 
>>>> I am back from Down Under 4 January but Will follow (up) from a dista
>> nce.
>>>> 
>>>> Update from me;
>>>> - contacted Andrea Ross to see how (when, procedure) our messages can
>>>> be incorporated in their news towards their mailing list of 120,000
>>>> (!) addressees
>>>> - discussed with Till if/when we can publish our first (draft) progra
>> m
>>>> (if we do not have anything to tell, we look more the fool).
>>>> 
>>>> Vriendelijke groet,
>>>> Marc Vloemans
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Op 17 dec. 2015 om 17:04 heeft till.adams at fossgis.de het volgende
>>>>> geschreven:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi LOC!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Today we have our IRC chat at 5 p.m. CET!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've created an agenda, feel free to add/edit here:
>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes#IRC_chat_201
>> 5-12-17
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Till
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>> 
>> - -- 
>> Arnulf Christl (Director)
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