[Inpycon] How to send mail to previous year attendees

[me kracekumar]

That should work. Though we may be syncing the 2014 participants often.
Will ping whenever it is required.


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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