[maemo-community] Coding competition 2011 - mass emailing

[From: Cosimo Kroll]

Or better yet: with a number of forum posts. How about 10?
How many emails we'd have to send then?

2011/11/8 Cosimo Kroll <zehjotkah at googlemail.com>

> According to the rules [1] only users of maemo.org who are registered at
> the time of voting for at least four months are entitled to vote.
>
> We could specify more filters, like user with over {amount} of karma are
> invited to vote.
>
> [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/MeeGo_Coding_Competition_2011#Rules
>
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>
> 2011/11/8 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>
>
>> On 8 November 2011 10:22, Ferenc Szekely <ferenc at maemo.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > The 2011 coding competition now requires us to send a
>> > minimum amount of ~57000 emails (which is already a lot).
>>
>> I saw zehjotkah's tweet; it does seem like a crazy number of emails.
>> Is it being proposed - by the Coding Competition - that *anyone* with
>> a maemo.org account will be invited to vote?
>>
>> Lots of people have created them, but aren't really part of the
>> "community". If those are the rules of the Coding Competition, I
>> suggest they are changed to limit the number of emails; or blogs/list
>> announcements/banners on maemo.org are used to inform people of it.
>>
>> When I worked in corporate communications, everyone thought their
>> particular topic was the single most important thing... <clarkson>in
>> the world</clarkson> and wanted it emailed to everyone. This is not
>> one of those situations (and the situations in which all maemo.org
>> account holders would be emailed seem limited to things like security
>> issues with the accounts database, or the future of the site).
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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