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@jeffvandyke:
I just came from Newsletter #1 - very nice! I think some folks (including me) would appreciate a email subscription option like This Week In Rust does (twitter and reddit updates don't show up in my inbox). Perhaps whatever email service they use could be adopted for rust-gamedev?@17cupsofcoffee:
They apparently use MailChimp for this - their free plan only allows up to 2000 subscribers, however, and they already surpassed that in 2016, so they must be on one of the paid ones.I think this is definitely a good idea, but we'd need to either find a service with a more generous free plan and/or figure out a plan for how it'd be paid for.
@phaazon:
That makes me think I should really have an RSS stream on my website… I need to check how to do that.
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17cupsofcoffee commentedon Oct 2, 2019
At the very least, we should make sure that we submit the newsletter for inclusion in This Week In Rust every month. I think this was done for the first one, not sure if that was a PR from one of us or someone on their end :)
ozkriff commentedon Oct 2, 2019
About TWIR: It was my PR, but they have a policy of not including newsletters and other regular issues. The first newsletter was included as a one-time exception.
17cupsofcoffee commentedon Oct 2, 2019
Ah, that's a bummer. I get it, though, they probably don't want their entire newsletter to be... links to other newsletters 😅
JeanMertz commentedon Oct 2, 2019
We can at least ask to add it one more time, with a notice that we now have a proper newsletter to which people can subscribe (when that is in place, of course).
17cupsofcoffee commentedon Oct 3, 2019
As far as I can tell, our requirements are:
This gives us a few options:
If we go for one of the former two options, we should copy what TWIR do to prepare the emails - they have a minimal blog theme that strips out everything but the post content and some styles, use that to render the page into HTML, and then use an inliner to make the styles work. This would then need documenting on the README. I'm happy to pick that work up, if needs be!
AlexEne commentedon Oct 3, 2019
I'm fine to sponsor the 9.99$/mo mail chimp payed tier.
JeanMertz commentedon Oct 4, 2019
Although I'm not part of the WG, I'm following along and have a vested interest in it succeeding. We can split the bill if that helps, I can wire you 12 months upfront to make things less complicated.
17cupsofcoffee commentedon Oct 4, 2019
I'm also happy to chip in - just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to get stuck with the bill forever if I set it up 😛 That said, this is all theoretical until we actually hit 2k subscribers, which is a pretty high bar to cross!
I'll have a play with some of the above services over the weekend and see if I can figure out a reasonably ergonomic pipeline.
17cupsofcoffee commentedon Oct 4, 2019
One potential stumbling block I've run into - MailChimp require you to provide a physical mailing address before you can set up a campaign, and it has to be included in every email you send to comply with their TOS (and some countries' laws, I think?). I wouldn't be comfortable using my home address for that, I don't think I could get away with using my employer's, and setting up a PO box is pretty pricy.
Lokathor commentedon Oct 4, 2019
Is there some sort of... mozilla office address thing we can give since we're part of the broader Rust team?
ozkriff commentedon Oct 6, 2019
Another email subscription request from Twitter:
@MasonRemaley:
ozkriff commentedon Sep 12, 2020
@AlexEne @erlend-sh @kvark hey, wg leads, do you know anyone we can ask about getting a group/official inbox for this thing?
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