[OSGeo-Conf] Mailchimp

[Darrell fuhriman]

My general feeling on these things is that it’s worth the money to not put any more burden on volunteers than is necessary — especially if that burden can be easily outsourced for what is frankly a pretty small charge in the grand scheme of things. 

If you can revert to free and then upgrade as necessary, that seems like an excellent investment to me. 

Darrell

> On May 15, 2020, at 08:52, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Conference Committee,
> 
> We just had a meeting with the Calgary team to give us the credentials
> of the shared accounts by all LOCs.
> 
> We have a question regarding MailChimp. We understand this is an
> interesting tool that has been widely used in the past. Right now it
> has a cost of 93€/month.
> 
> Considering we are not going to widely use it in the next few months,
> we are going to export all the contacts to convert it to a free plan
> for the time being and then decide at a later stage what to do with
> it. Possibly reimport all the contacts and pay again, if there is no
> better alternative.
> 
> Can the Conference Committee discuss to have some FOSS version of
> this, like PHPList (https://github.com/phpList/phplist3 ), on OSGeo
> servers that will allow us to do the same without depending on an
> external provider?
> 
> Cheers,
> María.
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