[maemo-community] Coding competition 2011 - mass emailing

[From: Cosimo Kroll]

I'll quote Pelagos question from the forum:

"It would be interesting if they could give figures on how the number
varies with different karma thresholds, and if they could say at which
number of users they are happy emailing (e.g. are they happy when the
number goes below 10,000, below 5,000, or what, and what karma threshold
does this correspond to)."



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

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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