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Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 12, 2010, 10:19 UTC
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM, David Bainbridge <david.bainbridge@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On the question of spamming here is another aspect; if I send mail to
> everyone on a public list then it is spam. If I send a message to
> everyone at work asking them to respond then I am just doing my job.
> The problem is how to address the unpaid volunteer sector of the open
> source community without being perceived as spamming.
Note that perhaps spamming is not the right word.

I think the plan is to send the mail only to the communities that use git, so chances are that many people would be interested on filling out the survey. It has been done in previous years, and I think nobody complained.

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Felipe Contreras
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Message 21 of 24 in “[RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)”
  1. Jakub NarebskiJul 3, 2010
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 4, 2010
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2010
  4. Yann DirsonJul 7, 2010
  5. Jakub NarebskiJul 7, 2010
  6. Felipe ContrerasJul 10, 2010
  7. David BainbridgeJul 4, 2010
  8. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2010
  9. David BainbridgeJul 4, 2010
  10. Jakub NarebskiJul 5, 2010
  11. Scott ChaconJul 4, 2010
  12. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2010
  13. Yann DirsonJul 7, 2010
  14. Jakub NarebskiJul 7, 2010
  15. Yann DirsonJul 8, 2010
  16. Felipe ContrerasJul 10, 2010
  17. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2010
  18. Felipe ContrerasJul 11, 2010
  19. Jakub NarebskiJul 11, 2010
  20. David BainbridgeJul 12, 2010
  21. Felipe ContrerasJul 12, 2010
  22. David BainbridgeJul 12, 2010
  23. Felipe ContrerasAug 9, 2010
  24. Jakub NarebskiAug 10, 2010

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