[Inpycon] How to send mail to previous year attendees

[Baiju M]

+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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