[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

[Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA]

How about having personalized announcement mailing lists ?

A personalized mailing list will allow mailman users to send personalized
emails to all the list members from a common email template.  Suppose I am
the manager of a company and I need to ask all the workers for a meeting. I
want each of my workers to prepare a topic to speak on during the meeting.
For this I need to send each of them a message separately mentioning the
topic he/she has to speak on.

Suppose the email *template* is like this:

*To : <worker-email>*
*Subject: <sub>*

*Hello <worker-name>,*

*Hope you are having fun at <worker-place>. I am arranging a meeting at 5
p.m. on Saturday. I want you to speak on <topic> during the meeting. So,
come prepared for that.*
*<other-suff>*

*Best wishes,*

*Ankush Sharma*
*Manager*
*foo-bar*


And I have a spreadsheet data on the mailing list server like this:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cAbdSmc1NA-C9IZFjc_zB67qEvgmX8Jr3xYyGxPdwdU/pubhtml

Mailman can have a functionality of flooding the *template* by using the
spreadsheet data. The variables in the *template* (< -- > stuff) would be
replaced by the corresponding row data in the spreadsheet corresponding to
the emails of the list members. This can provide great flexibility to
mailman users who use mailman as announcement list.

Later on, mailman can have the functionality of saving email templates and
choosing one of them in a certain scenario. Mailing lists can be made more
personalized and powerful in this way.

Expecting further feedback or suggestions on this idea.

Ankush Sharma
IIT-BHU,Varanasi
github.com/black-perl



On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2015, at 04:12 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
>
> >I’m looking forward to being able to set and get domainowner and
> serverowner
> >(or siteowner or whatever its called). It will allow me to delete lots of
> >code and there’s no greater joy than deleting code.
> >
> >Are you anticipating this will be in V3.0?
>
> Please file a bug and we'll see. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>
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