Mailing Lists

The current mailing lists for DjangoCon US are:

| Mailing List | Purpose | Who receives emails addressed to this list? | | --- | --- | | hello@ | Internal communication among organizers
Community helpline for those with questions about the conference | All organizers | | conduct@ | Code of Conduct reports | Members of the Code of Conduct team; conference chairs | | program@ | List for program committee | Members of the program committee, AV chair | | sponsors@ | List for active and potential sponsors | Members of the sponsors team; conference chairs | | visas@ | List for attendees who have questions about international travel or who need visa invitation letters | Members of the visas team |

Mass Emails

We use Mailchimp for mass emails to attendees, speakers, and sponsors. Mailchimp has pretty good docs that can help you figure out how to do what you need to do. Common Mailchimp functions:

Create lists
Update people on lists (new ticket purchasers)
Create new template
Add sponsors to template
Create "campaign" (another word for email)
Schedule campaign

These are the current lists we use in Mailchimp:

DjangoCon US Announcements

This is the list we use for anyone who wants notifications about our announcements. It persists from year to year. At the end of a conference, we move all attendees from the current year onto this list so they can continue to receive announcements for the following year.

DjangoCon US Attendees

We use this list to keep in touch with attendees before and during DjangoCon US. This list is deleted at the end of a conference year.

DjangoCon US Speakers

This is a private list with all of our speakers (keynotes, talks, and tutorials). This list is deleted at the end of a conference year.

DjangoCon US Sponsors

This is a private list with all of our sponsors which we use to keep them informed of what's going on. This list is deleted at the end of a conference year.