Which type of communication do you want to do via this channel ? Only meetings, mapathons and similar announcements ?
Also quarterly projects (when we get to run those on a regular basis) ? OSM-weekly like ? I think you should mention that in the first message, so people know what they can expect before (un)subscribing. m. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > A quick googling gave me Odoo: > https://www.odoo.com/page/email-marketing "free unlimited forever"... > > m > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:02 AM, joost schouppe > <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As I said somewhere in a thread, we need more ways to communicate to people >> who like us, but don't necessarily want to follow this mailing list (which I >> think is entirely understandable). >> >> Here's some things to do: >> >> * decide on a tool. I've already made a MailChimp account, but if anyone has >> a better idea, please speak now. Once we're over 2000 subscribers, it also >> costs money. It would be nice to avoid that. >> >> * adding people. >> - I'm planning to add all the participants of the last few Missing Maps >> Mapathons. I know they didn't ask for it, so the very first message should >> almost start with "if you don't want to keep up to date on events, >> UNSUBSCRIBE HERE". People do regularly ask "how will you keep me up to date >> about events", so they will probably not feel spammed anyway. >> - we can put a button on the osm.be website >> - I'll put it in the welcome message for new mappers >> - we should suggest subscribing to active mappers who aren't active here >> - we'll tell our 500 (!) twitter followers >> >> * write a first message. English, French and Dutch? Define what exactly we >> want to say. I've seen people write very well here when provided a Hackpad, >> so here's a place to work: >> https://hackpad.com/First-message-on-the-mailing-list-0VV4Ftu482s >> >> * define scope of messaging. I don't think we'll have that much to say. I >> think for now, it'll be mostly announcing events, sometimes a little >> newsflash or a call for sponsors . I think once or twice a month would be >> more than enough. >> >> There's also a trello card for this little project, feel free to move tasks >> there. >> https://trello.com/c/XGvkPNVQ/28-create-an-osm-newsletter >> >> I'd like to get the first message out this weekend, so it's not too long >> after the Mapathon for the 230 people who registered there. >> >> -- >> Joost @ >> Openstreetmap | Twitter | LinkedIn | Meetup | Reddit | Wordpress >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
