[OSGeo-UK] Email Newsletter to event attendees

[Al Graham]

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

Cheers



On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 15:28, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> Here are the best options that I found:
>
>
>    - Zoho is free for up to 2k contacts and 6k emails per month but has
>    no segmentation https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/pricing.html?src=dd
>    - Brevo (formerly Send in Blue) offers unlimited contacts but only 300
>    emails per day (so would require batching somehow) and includes
>    segmentation
>    https://www.brevo.com/pricing/marketing-platform/see-all-features/
>    -
>    - 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
>    https://www.sender.net/pricing/
>
>
> Thoughts?
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