[OSGeo-UK] Email Newsletter to event attendees

[Nick Bearman]

Hi Al,

All added to the AGM Agenda. Yes I agree it is worth a discussion.

Best wishes,
Nick.

On 08/11/2023 17:40, Al Graham via UK wrote:
> 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?
>     ______
>     Steven
>
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