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Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF

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Dec 19, 2009, 7:44:55 PM12/19/09
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Hi,everyone.

This year I hope all readers of this list will assist me in crass
commercial promotion of next year's PyCon. I will be speaking about
"Building the Python Community", and we can't do that without
advertising that the Python community exists (and hey, has pretty good
conferences too).

One particularly effective way for you prodigious email producers to
assist is to something to your signature (as you will see I have done).
This is especially important because it will bring PyCon to the
attention of a wider audience - "preaching to the choir" is all very
well, but doesn't build the community.

regards
Steve
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Steve Holden Chairman, Python Software Foundation
The Python Community Conference http://python.org/psf/
PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/
Watch PyCon on video now! http://pycon.blip.tv/

John Nagle

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Dec 21, 2009, 12:31:46 PM12/21/09
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Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF wrote:
> Hi,everyone.
>
> This year I hope all readers of this list will assist me in crass
> commercial promotion of next year's PyCon.
...

> One particularly effective way for you prodigious email producers to
> assist is to something to your signature (as you will see I have done).
...

This guy wants people to spam for him to promote his $300 conference.

Don't support spammers. Boycott PyCon.

John Nagle

mdipierro

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Dec 21, 2009, 12:43:55 PM12/21/09
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There is huge difference between what Steve is asking and spam.

Spam is "Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent
indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or
newsgroups".

Steve is asking us help him to identify communities that we may be
part of and that we believe may be interested in the PyCon conference
and inform them.

Not every communication on the internet is spam.

Massimo

Yarko

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Dec 21, 2009, 7:33:09 PM12/21/09
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> > Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF wrote:> Hi,everyone.
>
> > > This year I hope all readers of this list will assist me in crass
> > > commercial promotion of next year's PyCon.
> > ...
> > > One particularly effective way for you prodigious email producers to
> > > assist is to something to your signature (as you will see I have done).
>
> > ...
>
> >     This guy wants people to spam for him to promote his $300 conference.
>
> >     Don't support spammers.  Boycott PyCon.
>

Sheesh!!

Certainly putting identifying information in your signature is no
worse than putting a domain as part of your email...

Steve asked no more than for people to consider adding something
informational to their signatures.

Do it if you want to help (a community works, after all, when there
are more people participating in the community; it is a Python
Software Foundation sponsored conference)

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