Organizers need to share information with attendees, and attendees need to communicate with one another, via email.
- Users can subscribe themselves to public lists
- Organizers can moderate what gets posted to lists, if there's a spam problem
- Organizers can keep a private list, for discussing non-public logistics (?)
- Users can read the public list's archives
- Only authorized individuals can read a private list's archives (?)
- Solution must be hosted for free by someone, or hosting + volunteer time must be donated to maintain and support it
Until 2015, SeaGl has been using Google Groups for its mailing lists.
Mailman 3 just came out, and provides all the features we need. However, it does not have a free hosted solution, so it would need to be maintained and supported by a donation or volunteer.
Discourse is novel and powerful FLOSS providing mailing lists and forums. Adam has been using Discourse for a few months now and highly recommends it.
blists is a web interface to mailing list archives.