[OSM-talk-be] Belgian newsletter

Hi, In case you don't subscribe to our newsletter, here's a link to the latest issue: http://mailchi.mp/3b95bb6987ec/news-from-openstreetmap-belgium There's a link to a Dutch and French (thank you Julien and Pierre). The good looks are thanks to Chris Leroy. Subscribe here:

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All help still welcome for the newsletter plan. The text is finally taking shape. If you like it, you could translate it to Dutch or French. https://hackpad.com/First-message-on-the-newsletter-0VV4Ftu482s ___ Talk-be mailing list

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There's a first draft of the first message: https://hackpad.com/First-message-on-the-mailing-list-0VV4Ftu482s I'll ask the university team for input too. ___ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org

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Well it ain't necessarily either/or. Anyway, we actually do have a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419016881706058 Feel free to promote it! It has a measly 50 members... But thanks for reminding me, it should definitely get a mention in the newsletter.

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Qua keuze communicatie-kanaal. Indien je een breed publiek wil aanspreken (niet alleen geeks), waarom dan gewoon geen facebook-pagina? Veel mensen controleren dit geregeld, door liken kan de bekendheid bij een divers publiek verbreden. Eenvoudig aanmaken van evenementen, en mensen kunnen

Re: [OSM-talk-be] OSM newsletter

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:43 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > I do like the idea of a Belgian OSM-weekly type thing, but it sounded a bit > more complicated than the current proposal, and a bit too similar to how we > use this list. So I'm not going to work in that direction

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Marc, that was in my original message: "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." A thing like a quarterly project looks absolutely suitable here, good idea. And yes on

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Which type of communication do you want to do via this channel ? Only meetings, mapathons and similar announcements ? Also quarterly projects (when we get to run those on a regular basis) ? OSM-weekly like ? I think you should mention that in the first message, so people know what they can

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A quick googling gave me Odoo: https://www.odoo.com/page/email-marketing "free unlimited forever"... m On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:02 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > Hi, > > As I said somewhere in a thread, we need more ways to communicate to people > who like us, but

[OSM-talk-be] OSM newsletter

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