Breathe

I gave a mini-presentation to the Pen Y Foidr allotments tonight, only a 5 minute slot at the end of their meeting.

Newsletter

Finally, it’s up and running. I was considering using Beehiiv as the newsletter platform but they don’t have a configurable subscribe form and they also don’t have the ‘RSS (ie blog posts) to automatic newsletter’ feature. So, Buttondown it is.

Blogged

There’s a lot of work goes on behind the scenes with any project. Because I want the Hope Garden to act as an inspiration and also some sort of blueprint, with freely available plans, I think it’s really important to be out in the open with the development.

Mailing list

Mailing list alternatives to Substack (Nazi) and MailChimp (Nasty):

• listmonk, free, self-hosted
  • PikaPods hosting $2 per month
  • Railway hosting $5 per month
• Buttondown 1,000+@$9pcm, 5,000+@$29pcm, 10,000+@$79pcm
• Beehiiv 2,500+@$42pcm, 10,000+@$84pcm

Website ideas

• Invite local schools to an assembly
• Actually, use events theme for website, keep aingle page at beginning, then when get bookongs, switch on achedule and speakers/sessions
• Use single page scroll website, for when fundraising starts. Hugo scroll is the theme, demo here
• David Hunter, woodworker I’d like to use for benches thecoppiceplot.com
• Open source the plans and process
• Bilingual, backed by Welsh govt?
• Will email Jane Davidson, one of the architects of the Future Generations Act may well be interested in the project, as she apparently supports Community Assemblies.

Movable benches in assembly area, to show 2 different modes