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Approve funding request for LWKD newsletter publishing #6930

Closed jberkus closed 1 year ago

jberkus commented 2 years ago

Describe the issue

LWKD is a publication of Contributor Comms. The publication supports the kubernetes community by helping our large population of contributors keep up with changes to kubernetes/kubernetes, as well as being a news channel for announcements targeting contributors.

It gets published several ways: (1) Twitter (2) Discuss.Kubernetes.org (3) website (4) Direct email. The last mechanism is done through Buttondown.email, an independant competitor to MailChimp, which is cheaper and more suitable for our publishing workflow (buttondown understands markdown).

We are currently at 937 subscribers to the direct email version, which puts us close to the free account limit of 1000. We would like to convert this to a paid account, which is currently $9 per month.

FAQs:

Posting here for official/archival SIG-Contributor-Experience approval as part of the funds request process.

/sig contributor-experience

/assign @cblecker @mrbobbytables @kaslin @nikita

k8s-ci-robot commented 2 years ago

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In response to [this](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/6930): >### Describe the issue > >[LWKD](http://lwkd.info/) is a publication of Contributor Comms. The publication supports the kubernetes community by helping our large population of contributors keep up with changes to kubernetes/kubernetes, as well as being a news channel for announcements targeting contributors. > >It gets published several ways: (1) Twitter (2) Discuss.Kubernetes.org (3) website (4) Direct email. The last mechanism is done through Buttondown.email, an independant competitor to MailChimp, which is cheaper and more suitable for our publishing workflow (buttondown understands markdown). > >We are currently at 937 subscribers to the direct email version, which puts us close to the free account limit of 1000. We would like to convert this to a paid account, which is currently $9 per month. > >FAQs: >- Does CNCF already have a paid account with a service we could use? CNCF staff says no. >- Why not just use a mailing list? For the newsletter, we need the easy webform subscription management, as well as bounce management. We do not know of a free tool that supplies this kind of UI on top of a mailing list server. >- How does this compare with MailChimp? Mailchimp is $18 per month, and does not work as well for markdown publishing. > >Posting here for official/archival SIG-Contributor-Experience approval as part of the funds request process. > >/sig contributor-experience > >/assign @cblecker @mrbobbytables @kaslin @nikita Instructions for interacting with me using PR comments are available [here](https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/guide/pull-requests.md). If you have questions or suggestions related to my behavior, please file an issue against the [kubernetes/test-infra](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/new?title=Prow%20issue:) repository.
jberkus commented 2 years ago

/assign @nikhita

cblecker commented 2 years ago

+1 from me

nikhita commented 2 years ago

+1 from me too!

caniszczyk commented 2 years ago

One option you can consider is https://www.getrevue.co which some LF projects use (integrates with twitter which can be a pro/con)

Anyways, whatever you use we can happily cover it, this stuff isn't widely pricey.

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In response to this https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/6930:

Describe the issue

LWKD http://lwkd.info/ is a publication of Contributor Comms. The publication supports the kubernetes community by helping our large population of contributors keep up with changes to kubernetes/kubernetes, as well as being a news channel for announcements targeting contributors.

It gets published several ways: (1) Twitter (2) Discuss.Kubernetes.org (3) website (4) Direct email. The last mechanism is done through Buttondown.email, an independant competitor to MailChimp, which is cheaper and more suitable for our publishing workflow (buttondown understands markdown).

We are currently at 937 subscribers to the direct email version, which puts us close to the free account limit of 1000. We would like to convert this to a paid account, which is currently $9 per month.

FAQs:

  • Does CNCF already have a paid account with a service we could use? CNCF staff says no.
  • Why not just use a mailing list? For the newsletter, we need the easy webform subscription management, as well as bounce management. We do not know of a free tool that supplies this kind of UI on top of a mailing list server.
  • How does this compare with MailChimp? Mailchimp is $18 per month, and does not work as well for markdown publishing.

Posting here for official/archival SIG-Contributor-Experience approval as part of the funds request process.

/sig contributor-experience

/assign @cblecker https://github.com/cblecker @mrbobbytables https://github.com/mrbobbytables @kaslin https://github.com/kaslin @nikita https://github.com/nikita

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jberkus commented 2 years ago

@caniszczyk I talked to Kristi Tan, and she said CNCF doesn't yet have a newsletter service ya'll have settled on. So the plan is to go with Buttondown until something supported by the organization comes along.

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nikhita commented 1 year ago

/remove-lifecycle stale

@jberkus is this done?

jberkus commented 1 year ago

This has been paid. Closing.

/close

k8s-ci-robot commented 1 year ago

@jberkus: Closing this issue.

In response to [this](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/6930#issuecomment-1426448655): >This has been paid. Closing. > >/close > Instructions for interacting with me using PR comments are available [here](https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/guide/pull-requests.md). If you have questions or suggestions related to my behavior, please file an issue against the [kubernetes/test-infra](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/new?title=Prow%20issue:) repository.