[OSGeo-UK] Email Newsletter to event attendees

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

I'm going to bite...

Why would you want the mental burden of having to maintain a second email
list for OSGeo:UK? It's not like the existing one is particularly high
traffic, so why dilute it even further?

All the best

Jo

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 2:54 PM Nick Bearman via UK <uk at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

> Thanks Steven - this looks good.
>
> How important do you think segmentation is? I think it could be useful
> going forward if we want to be a bit more strategic - e.g. sending
> different emails to people interested in different venues - but not sure if
> we want to get that complex!
>
> Only other thing that comes to mind is GDPR compliance - I assume they all
> are, but it is something we should check before signing up.
>
> Any comments from anyone else?
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
> On 20/09/2023 3:28 pm, Steven Feldman 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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