[maemo-community] Coding competition 2011 - mass emailing

[From: robert bauer]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ferenc Szekely <ferenc at maemo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 11/08/2011 03:28 PM, robert bauer wrote:
> > Ferenc,
> >
> > Thanks for your message.  If staggering the vote is not enough to reduce
> > server load, please go ahead and use a simple filter based on karma and
> > length of community membership so that the server load will be
> manageable.
> >
> Our community has 660 people with karma >= 100. That's a lot less than
> 57000. Tuning the mailing script (ie. 1 email per person) should not be
> a big deal, though I have not looked that part yet.
>
> > The other suggestions are appreciated.  While there is merit in more
> > selectively reducing the email recipients to those N900 users most
> > likely to have tested the submissions, or at least those who are
> > currently active in the community, as indicated previously, the priority
> > now is to get the vote completed and those additional factors, even if
> > possible, are likely to burden and slow the process.  Of course, if I am
> > mistaken in this regard, then Ferenc can point that out.
> >
> I can change the mailing script if the council agrees to introduce the
> karma filter.
>
> On behalf of Council, I authorize the karma filter.


> > Rob Bauer (SD69)
> >
> Cheers,
> ferenc
>
> ps: http://maemo.org/profile/list/
> There are 22 pages exactly that list people having karma >= 100. Each
> page has 30 rows.
>
> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Ferenc Szekely <ferenc at maemo.org
> > <mailto:ferenc at maemo.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     Before the voting part for the 2011 coding competition really gets
> out
> >     of hand I decided to check the situation.
> >
> >     For elections in the past we always filtered the number of people who
> >     were eligible to vote. The filtering was done based on the karma
> value.
> >     This filtering ensured that we are not sending out tens of thousands
> of
> >     emails in a batch. The 2011 coding competition now requires us to
> send a
> >     minimum amount of ~57000 emails (which is already a lot). This
> number is
> >     valid only if we change the mailing scripts and send 1 email per
> person
> >     for all the 9 categories they can vote for. If we don't change the
> >     mailing system then it means > 513k emails.
> >
> >     This is not going to happen as long as I am root on the maemo
> servers.
> >     We are not going to become a spammer organization no matter what.
> >
> >     I would suggest to revise the plans and take this voting to a web
> based
> >     system.
> >
> >     ferenc
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