[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

[Philippe Beaudette]

Yeah, that one's noted for the post-mortem.

Philippe


On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Gerard
> Meijssen<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hoi,
>> This is a huge improvement over the last election where not all  
>> projects
>> were targeted for this type of mail. As a result there is less bias  
>> in the
>> system. So you can opt out if you do not want to receive an e-mail  
>> for the
>> next election.
>>
>> Iit is a huge improvement to have an e-mail by the organisers of the
>> election over someone who does because he can and has thinks it a  
>> good idea.
>> This is very much a friendly nudge to go and do your democratic  
>> duty because
>> you can.
>
> Although it's not an improvement in that its very close to the
> election and the rate of response to the mail appeared to lag several
> days in a prior election.
>
> A lot of people are going to notice the mail next week and be annoyed
> that they were left out.
>
> Someone should make a note of that for the future.  My rule of thumb
> for any notification procedure on Wikipedia, based on meetup and other
> events, is that one week is required to even reach a majority of the
> eventual targets and that two is much better. Sufficient notice is
> important—  Especially when responding to the notice is something that
> may require reading a half meg of text or so.
>
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