Re: gender field in registration system

Hi Alexandre,

Thank you for relating this. I think the downside of someone getting
an invitation they are not interested in is relatively small, so it's
probably not worth having a separate checkbox for opt in for an
invitation. I know people prefer to keep the registration page short.
However, I don't mind us having it in the future if more people think
that's the best way to go.

I agree that getting multiple e-mails is annoying. I added a note
about sending individual invitations to the wiki page about the
dinner, so that we preserve it for future years, and related it to
Rosanna, who is organizing the dinner this year, as well.

Thanks,
Marina


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Alexandre Franke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>> We will not publish gender data. It will only be used for
>> attendee statistics and for an invitation to the women's dinner.
>
> Can you try and handle this better than last year please? There were two issues.
>
> First, at least one person was contacted that wasn't interested in the
> women's dinner. I'd need to check, but I'm not even sure she actually
> filled in the field as "female" (she may have left it blank), so there
> could have been some guesswork on your side. Anyway there should be a
> way to opt out of the invitation, or better yet the invitation should
> be opt in and separate from the field.
>
> The second issue was that, if I recall correctly, you sent an email
> with all the invited people in the To or CC field. The consequence is
> that if you're not interested in the dinner, people keep you in the
> list of recipients and you keep getting email about something you have
> no interest in.
>
> All of this is from memory and I have no quick way to check my facts.
> I'm sorry if I got parts wrong, but I think this are details you
> should pay attention to.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Alexandre Franke