<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I agree with Ben's description "nuisance of the inappropriate variety". Rather than approach this through SFC/Evergreen Oversight Board or even conference planning committee, I will personally respond directly to the email letting them know I think their email is parasitic in nature and no one from my group will be planning to attend. <br><br>Elizabeth<br><br><br><br><div><span name="x"></span>Elizabeth McKinney <br>PINES Program Director <br>Georgia Public Library Service <br>A Unit of the University System of Georgia<br>1800 Century Place, Suite 150<br>Atlanta GA 30345<br>404.235.7141<br>emckinney@georgialibraries.org<br>http://www.georgialibraries.org/<br><br><br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Galen Charlton" <gmc@esilibrary.com><br><b>To: </b>"Ben Hyman" <ben.hyman@bc.libraries.coop><br><b>Cc: </b>evergreen-2013@sfconservancy.org, "eg-oversight-board@list.evergreen-ils.org Board" <eg-oversight-board@list.evergreen-ils.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 24, 2013 2:38:16 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: Evergreen 2013: Register Here for 'Improving Your Collection with Evidence' with collectionHQ<br><br>Hi,<br><br>On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ben Hyman <ben.hyman@bc.libraries.coop> wrote:<br>> I indicated to Tony that I didn't think there was a significant threat, and<br>> that its more of a nuisance of the inappropriate variety at this point.<br>> Please advise if you feel strongly otherwise.<br><br>I lean more towards considering it a nuisance, with two caveats.<br><br>Certainly Collection HQ is free to schedule events to take advantage<br>of there being a concentration of librarians who they think might be<br>interested in their service. They are also free to make factual<br>references to Evergreen 2013 conference insofar as they've scheduled<br>it at the same time and place.<br><br>Here's my first caveat: their signup form<br>(http://chqeg2013.eventbrite.com/) includes the phrases "Evergreen<br>2013: Improving Your Collection with Evidence" and "cHQ Session<br>Evergreen 2013", which taken together could be construed as implying<br>that their event is part of the conference. I would prefer that they<br>not mention the conference in the title of their session, and further<br>feel that they should be asked to change this on their signup for and<br>any future promotion of the event.<br><br>Hopefully, they'll say yes. If they don't, we do have the option of<br>promulgating an announcement to clarify that the Collection HQ session<br>is not an official part of the conference. Or, I should so,<br>promulgating it more broadly than has already been done;<br>eg-oversight-board is publicly archived, after all.<br><br>And here's my second caveat: the email that Collection HQ sent to the<br>open-ils-general mailing list on the 15th did not much bother me,<br>personally: it was a one-time email and by proximity to the conference<br>and content arguably of interest to some Evergreen users. However,<br>for obvious reasons, commercial advertising and announcements have to<br>be watched very carefully; if it becomes more frequent, revisiting the<br>policy for the mailing lists may be necessary.<br><br>What bothers me more are the emails that Collection HQ also sent to<br>individuals. If some or all of the email addresses were in fact<br>harvested from the mailing list archives, it would not be surprising<br>to find that some members of those lists would object to that. If<br>folks do in fact object, there are technical measures that could be<br>taken to further obscure email addresses in the list archives hosted<br>on list.evergreen-ils.org. This wouldn't absolutely prevent<br>harvesting -- there is nothing we could do that would have that effect<br>-- but would be a clear signal that the community would not tolerate<br>that behavior.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Galen<br>--<br>Galen Charlton<br>Manager of Implementation<br>Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts<br>email: gmc@esilibrary.com<br>direct: +1 770-709-5581<br>cell: +1 404-984-4366<br>skype: gmcharlt<br>web: http://www.esilibrary.com/<br>Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &<br>http://evergreen-ils.org<br>_______________________________________________<br>eg-oversight-board mailing list<br>eg-oversight-board@list.evergreen-ils.org<br>http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eg-oversight-board<br></div><br></div></body></html>