[feature] Add subscribe section

[coolbrg]

I think having a subscription on the website is one of the standard ways to get the audience engaged.

The flow is quite simple:

• Embed subscribe form in Website
• User fill in required details: email [ or full name ]
• Above info get stored in Email Marketing Service Provider [EMSP] (eg: https://mailchimp.com)
• EMSP provides a nice user interface for writing announcements, news updates, newsletters, etc.

Benefits

• Bulk mailing to all subscribers
• Some level of managing categories of subscribers using segment
• Up to 2000 contacts (subscriber) is free in MailChimp Free Plan
• Easy upgrade to 50,000 contacts ~$ 10/month

NOTE:

• MailChimp is my suggestion. There might be others that I might not aware so feel free to bring in.
• Google workspace has a limit of 2000 limits per day (https://support.google.com/a/answer/166852?hl=en)
• Not a fan of MailChimp or promoting it but it has a friendly user interface and provides good free benefits to start with.

[christophernhill]

So far we have been using Slack sign up as the way for people to subscribe, that adds them to an email list etc.... That does presume people are using Slack, which may not be the case for everyone we want to reach.

[richasay]

Where does this discussion sit? If we can ingest the Slack sub list into mailchimp, then we could leverage newsletter functionality and it will be awhile before we hit 2000 subs.

[vsoch]

The website serves a blog feed: https://vsoch.github.io/usrse.github.io/feed.xml so anyone that copy pastes the address into a standard feed syndication service (e.g., Feedly) can indeed subscribe. We also tend to tweet announcements which (imho) more people will follow/hear than traditional RSS. I definitely still use RSS but I think it's not everyone's cup of tea. @cmaimone and @sandragesing are also rocking the newsletter, and I suspect they already have a strategy for sending out these emails? Pinging them here if they want to further discuss, and please re-open and re-scope the issue if it's still an issue. Thanks!