[Inpycon] How to send mail to previous year attendees

[vijay kumar]

Sorry read it as
  Will share with you attendee list offline. Will that work ?


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:26 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Will share you offline csv from doattend . Will that work ?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:16 PM, me kracekumar <me at kracekumar.com> wrote:
>
>> Baiju
>>
>>  I will create mailchimp account tonight. Can someone share doattend
>> credentials offline for importing previous years participant details ?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 for using MailChimp
>>>
>>> I am not familiar with this (I have used sendgrid before), so please
>>> go ahead and setup
>>> an account in MailChimp. I will try to spend some time today evening
>>> with this.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM, me kracekumar <me at kracekumar.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Yes, DoAttend provides a way to download previous year attendees list
>>> in csv
>>> > format. We need to extract email addresses. I can help with this.
>>> >
>>> > I would suggest using MailChimp to send emails. We can create a list
>>> for
>>> > every year participants and mail them. Reason to use Mailchimp
>>> > (http://mailchimp.com/pricing/) is protection from spam. We don't
>>> want our
>>> > emails to end up in spam directory. We can create other related lists
>>> for
>>> > bulk emailing. One issue we may face is payment for mailchimp, since we
>>> > don't have credit card (if we cross email cap). It is also possible to
>>> write
>>> > to mailchimp and ask for discounts.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> May be hosting is not really required, I will run the scripts locally.
>>> >> The source code will be here:
>>> https://github.com/pythonindia/pyconindia
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> > Hi Anand,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > That's a good idea. Now where do we host it ?  If we have any
>>> existing
>>> >> > server,
>>> >> > we can use it.  Please provide me access details.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Anand Chitipothu
>>> >> > <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com>
>>> >> >> wrote:
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> Hi Krace,
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> How we do reach out to previous year attendees ?
>>> >> >>> Is there any feature provided by DoAttend for this ?
>>> >> >>> Or should we automate it through some scripts.
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> Anyway I have created a private repo
>>> >> >>> and shared it with you to manage some scripts
>>> >> >>> and various email addresses.
>>> >> >>> I made it private so that we don't need to share
>>> >> >>> all email address in public repos.
>>> >> >>> https://bitbucket.org/pythonindia/pyconindia
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> (BTW, GitHub has private repos for organizations, but costs
>>> >> >>> $25 per month.  May be we can think about that later)
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Isn't it better to keep the email addresses in a database and keep
>>> the
>>> >> >> code
>>> >> >> open?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Anand
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
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>>> >
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