<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nick, can we add Communications to the AGM agenda? It seems to me that we have too many (underused) communication channels at the moment and that there is merit in the newsletter proposal that Steven made. I'd be happy to be involved in that if that's what is decided. But we should also consider what other options are available for communications too</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 15:28, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>While we were preparing for FOSS4GUK we talked about the possibility of building a mailing list to send infrequent newsletters to people who attended our events but might not want to follow this list. This would help us market to potential attendees and sponsors.<div><br></div><div>I undertook to review the free tiers of several of the commercial services. I did not consider any self hosted solutions as I don’t have the skills to stand something like that up, but if anyone is willing to do that feel free to put your hand up!</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the best options that I found:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Zoho is free for up to 2k contacts and 6k emails per month but has no segmentation <a href="https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/pricing.html?src=dd" target="_blank">https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/pricing.html?src=dd</a></li><li>Brevo (formerly Send in Blue) offers unlimited contacts but only 300 emails per day (so would require batching somehow) and includes segmentation <a href="https://www.brevo.com/pricing/marketing-platform/see-all-features/" target="_blank">https://www.brevo.com/pricing/marketing-platform/see-all-features/</a></li><li></li><li>Sender looks good 2,500 free contacts and 15,000 sends per month, includes segmentation. They also offer a PAYG model where we pay £4.68/1000 emails if we need the advanced features but only a few times per year <a href="https://www.sender.net/pricing/" target="_blank">https://www.sender.net/pricing/</a></li></ul><div>
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