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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: Refactoring the brand: Apache ooo + OpenOffice.org? (was
 re:OpenOffice.org branding)
From: Rob Weir <apache@robweir.com>
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Terry Ellison <Terry@ellisons.org.uk> wrot=
e:
> On 03/08/11 15:14, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> A specific question then that should not require diverting your
>> current efforts. =C2=A0Is there a announcement list or some other mechan=
ism
>> to send an email to every registered wiki user?
>
> At a technical level, it's simple to run a query dumping all of the mail
> addresses of contributors to the wiki. =C2=A0I've just done a few on my l=
ocal VM
> which has a snapshot of =C2=A0the prod wiki as at Thursday/Fri night IIRC=
.
>
> =C2=A0 * There are 34,969 registered users. =C2=A0Of which
> =C2=A0 * 3,675 have made contributions. =C2=A0There is no need to contact=
 those
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 who haven't
> =C2=A0 * 3,623 have registered email addresses and have made 182,677
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 contributions
> =C2=A0 * 52 have no registered email addresses and have made 153
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 contributions (prob dating back to the early days when emai=
l
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 registration and confirmation wasn't mandatory
>
> It is trivial to dump this list of user / email addr / post count.
>
> However giving this to Apache and the project making use of it is a more
> complex issue. =C2=A0The server is current located in Oracle's Hamburg fa=
cility
> under German / EU legislation. =C2=A0We have data protection legislation =
and
> Anti-Spam guidelines / legislation to bear in mind here. =C2=A0Moving ema=
il
> addresses across national and organisational boundary might trigger these=
.
> =C2=A0Also one can't send out mailshot emails in the EU unless the recipi=
ents
> have first agreed in principle to accept these.
>
> What I can do is to provide this data to Andrew via the internal Oracle
> email, and let him figure out the legal / compliance issues and terms of =
use
> before him making it available to the project. =C2=A0Not my call.
>

Good enough.  Thanks.  I was hoping that there would be some community
email list that everyone was already signed up on.  Maybe if not at
the wiki system level, then at the OpenOffice.org level?  If there is
a master announce list that everyone is already on, then we'd be
golden.

> Terry
>
>