Re: gender field in registration system

On 4 August 2015 at 17:44, Mattias Bengtsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On tis, 2015-08-04 at 14:23 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Alexandre,
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> That's because you're in a US-centric mindset. There's a difference
>> between the law in the US and in Europe: US is opt-out by default,
>> Europe is opt-in by default.
>>
>> European people see unsolicited contact as a very bad thing, and the
>> usual "Here's a piece of information about our thing, if you don't
>> want to hear from us again just unsubscribe using the link at the
>> bottom" is actually not ok.
>
> Oh come on! It's just an E-mail. It's not like anyone's getting
> unwanted phone calls, it's also directly related to an event you have
> signed up for.

But is there a way to say we don't want to receive any email?
If not we can't use the address to send emails related to the conference or not.
This is required by european law (at the time when the email is
collected, and again in each email).

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0058:en:HTML

> Also the thing about European vs American mindset... Neither Europeans
> nor US citizens are homogeneous groups. The opinions will surely differ
> more between citizens inside a country or continent than the aggregate
> opinion will differ between continents and countries.