Create Newsletter

[JnBrymn]

Note: This is not an actionable issue until we agree on work involved and exit criteria.

Ideas

• Send a slack "newsletter" message either in #general or in the someone's personal channel.
• Unlike the notifications this would be general and something that we could post publicly.
• Do not attempt an email yet. They require complex permissions. (Ask John)
• Content:
  • Upcoming chats
  • Recent chats that happened
  • Introduction to new people OR re-introduction to some of the other active members
  • Recommendation (personalized?) with people you might reach out to.

Related

In order to advertise the upcoming Lightning talks I created an [email_members command[(https://github.com/penny-university/penny_university/blob/master/users/management/commands/email_members.py) that allows us to type very simple markdown and send it to our user list. But this Issue is more in the vein of making something that is "exportable", e.g. it should send newsletters automatically and not require our manual intervention like the email_members command. So I'm keeping this open.

[mrshwah]

To Do:

• Check if we can send both transactional email and newsletters from Sendgrid