Newsletter subscription from front page

Dear webteam,

one issue which we set aside actually has a very high priority: allowing people to subscribe directly from the wsf2008 website to the newsletter issued by the wsf secretariat.

We'll work on having CiviCRM on the site by end of the month (yes, Ben?), but in the meantime, we need a button or something on the home page where people - regardless if they are registered on the website - can sign up for the newsletter.

Either connect directly to the forumsocialmundial site (http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/cadastro.php?cd_language=1), or send an importable message to Thiago (please indicate the best way to do this)

Issue n.: http://drupal.org/node/202620

Jason

Two questions on that:

• The large question here, which I had started to ask Thiago about, is what
  format the current lists are in and are we taking over all of that?

  This is the big part of the question. Setting up CiviCRM just for
  WSF2008.net isn't too difficult, but it is overkill. Setting it up for all
  of World Social Forums needs is more involved but strongly recommended.

  benjamin

• Does anyone know how to access the database directly? How to access the code that puts up the form on http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/cadastro.php?cd_language=1 ?

  We can put a form that accesses these lists directly from WSF2008.net if someone can-- otherwise we can just provide link, which is suboptimal since the language of the list subscription must be chosen independetly of the language of the site, and changing the language of the site directs one to the forumsocialmundial.org.br home page rather than staying on the signup form.

  benjamin

The conclusion on the web team list as I understand it was to create a form that will e-mail a person who will add it to the main list.

We will do that but I'm putting this as "needs more info" because this would be best handled in a more comprehensive manner– integrating with the mailing database at forumsocialmundial.org.br or creating a new contact relationship management database to incorporate and replace the existing one.

This has been done. On all pages!

Long sordid history of other things looked at here:

http://agaricdesign.com/note/newsletter-signup-block-registered-and-anon...