[wplug-board] Non-WPLUG event announcements

[Michael Semcheski]

I'm for leaving it to the discretion of the board.

People make a big deal about receiving extra-email, such as
vacation-messages on mailing lists.  But those people are a vocal
minority.  The majority of people are able to see the subject of a
message and decide effortlessly whether they care or not, and
disregard it if its not something they do care about.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
> Hey folks-
>
> I'm interested to get your opinion on the types of non-WPLUG
> events we should promote on the general discussion list.  I
> posted the recent Pittsburgh SPIN announcement since it
> specifically involved a major piece of open source infrastructure
> (Ruby on Rails).  Generally, however, their events do not
> especially focus on free and open source software, so I don't post
> those announcements.
>
> I received the following announcement and a request to pass it
> along to the group.  While I'm sure there are members who may be
> interested in the event, I'm wary of spamming listmembers with
> announcements for events which have no clear link to WPLUG's
> organizational purpose.  It would be one thing if Ms. Simon posted
> the announcement to the list herself, but coming from a board
> member implies a certain level of endorsement.
>
> What do you think?  Is this announcement on-topic?  Where should
> we draw the line?  Thanks.
>
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
>
> Forwarded message:
>> Subject: Why Green is Good - event your members are invited to
>> To: top at wplug.org
>> Message-ID: <OF7F72FCC0.A51225A5-ON872574B0.0071B61F-852574B0.00747C39 at us.ibm.com>
>> From: Janet Simon <jsimon at us.ibm.com>
>> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:10:51 -0600
>>
>> Hi there,
>> This green event may be of value to your Linux User Group members and if
>> you can post this type of event information we would really welcome your
>> members.  The Pittsburgh Technology Council, IBM Business Partners and IBM
>> are hosting a half day session in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, September 17th.
>> We are taking a holistic approach to Why Green is Good...both for your
>> business and technology.  We have a Harvard Business Review author, Charles
>> Lockwood as our Keynote.  We have a panel of Pittsburgh experts from the
>> Green Building Alliance, PA Environmental Management Assistance Program,
>> Carnegie Mellon CyLab and PTC.   We also have 4 deeper dive sessions on
>> technology specific topics on Virtualization of data center, servers,
>> laptops/desktops and storage.  And one session on GHG emissions.   A very
>> fun and exciting event and something your members will see value in
>> investing the time.
>> Here is the event page with complete information on agenda, speakers,
>> panelists and break out sessions.   Please let me know if you have any
>> questions or if I can be of any help.
>> http://www.ibm.com/expressadvantage/pittsburghgreen
>> Here is the PDF
>> (See attached file: Why Green is Good invite_8.06b.pdf)
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