Thank you for addressing this issue. 
Yes, members of the wikidata community have participated in Force11 events in the past and also this year: http://sched.co/F7u7
Members of the Force11 actually visited the Wikidata headquarters last year in Berlin when our 2017 conference was held there. See that program for reference: 


A friendly suggestion: please look up the event, in this case Force11 [https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2018], before sending emails that contain suggestions to blacklist people.

Violeta



On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:03 AM, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello all,

Lydia and I, as moderators of this list, are filtering the announcements about conferences, keeping only the ones that have a link to Wikidata or could interest the broad community. The criteria of having to pay for the conference or not is not taken in account.
In that case, the conference includes open data in its topic, and some members of the Wikicite group have been there in the past, that's why we thought it would be interesting for the Wikidata community.

However, we don't tolerate spam, multiple-reminders for the same event, and we try to reduce the noise as much as possible for the ~1200 subscribers of this mailing-list.

Thanks for your understanding,
Léa

On 30 August 2018 at 18:57, Violeta Ilik <ilik.violeta@gmail.com> wrote:
Are you talking about the email I sent to register for the Force11 conference? 

Violeta 


On Thursday, August 30, 2018, Jérémie Roquet <jroquet@arkanosis.net> wrote:
2018-08-30 16:43 GMT+02:00 Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com>:
> I'm going to ask the opinion of the Wikidata list moderators here. This
> email appears to be a soloicitation to pay for attendance to an event, which
> I would consider to be a junk email and would treat accordingly including by
> blacklisting the sender. Do the Wikidata list moderators agree?

I didn't want to be the first to raise what I wasn't sure to be an
issue, but I feel the same.

Best regards,

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