[OSM-talk-be] OSM newsletter

[joost schouppe]

Hi,

As I said somewhere in a thread, we need more ways to communicate to people
who like us, but don't necessarily want to follow this mailing list (which
I think is entirely understandable).

Here's some things to do:

* decide on a tool. I've already made a MailChimp account, but if anyone
has a better idea, please speak now. Once we're over 2000 subscribers, it
also costs money. It would be nice to avoid that.

* adding people.
- I'm planning to add all the participants of the last few Missing Maps
Mapathons. I know they didn't ask for it, so the very first message should
almost start with "if you don't want to keep up to date on events,
UNSUBSCRIBE HERE". People do regularly ask "how will you keep me up to date
about events", so they will probably not feel spammed anyway.
- we can put a button on the osm.be website
- I'll put it in the welcome message for new mappers
- we should suggest subscribing to active mappers who aren't active here
- we'll tell our 500 (!) twitter followers

* write a first message. English, French and Dutch? Define what exactly we
want to say. I've seen people write very well here when provided a Hackpad,
so here's a place to work:
https://hackpad.com/First-message-on-the-mailing-list-0VV4Ftu482s

* define scope of messaging. I don't think we'll have that much to say. I
think for now, it'll be mostly announcing events, sometimes a little
newsflash or a call for sponsors . I think once or twice a month would be
more than enough.

There's also a trello card for this little project, feel free to move tasks
there.
https://trello.com/c/XGvkPNVQ/28-create-an-osm-newsletter

I'd like to get the first message out this weekend, so it's not too long
after the Mapathon for the 230 people who registered there.

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