[Inpycon] How to send mail to previous year attendees

[me kracekumar]

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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