[OSGeo-Conf] Mailchimp

[Mark Iliffe]

Hi All,

I'd propose a contrarian view... with less than $100 a month, it should not
be too prohibitive for either the Foundation or a LOC planning a
$250k+ conference, especially given the logistical 'cost' and legal
concerns associated with changing approaches... our community is rather
diligent on personal information after all and directly downloading, as
Steven points out, could in violation of certain regional laws. Moreover,
on a personal level, I'm happy that my 'personal' details are shared with a
company that has direct safeguards for personal information and data -
downloading it to a personal computer, no matter what good intentions,
makes me slightly uncomfortable.

Best,

Mark

On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:36, Darrell fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:

> 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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