Some more info about the cron.weekly newsletter

The nitty-gritty details, if you will.

What is cron.weekly?#

Cron.weekly is a weekly-ish newsletter written by Mattias Geniar . It includes a lot of the interesting links and information I find throughout the week.

The goal is to share as much information as possible, promote other projects and individuals and become a go-to resource for staying informed about the Linux, open source & web development industry.

The focus is very much on Linux and open source, with a web development preference of PHP (because that’s my background).

To find out more, have a look at the archives .

Privacy first#

I’m a big privacy fan. For that reason:

  • I don’t track email opens in the newsletter
  • I don’t track which links are being clicked
  • Your e-mail address is the only piece of information I store on my own servers

In other words: the e-mail you get from me contains all the information for you to read & click through, no data will be sent to my servers(*).

If you see ways I could improve it even more, do tell me!

(*) Except for the header & footer images, these are not being used to track opens as they contain nothing to uniquely identify you.

Advertising#

If you want to have your product or service promoted in the newsletter, have a look at the sponsorship program .

Some things to keep in mind:

  • I don’t track opens & clicks (the link you provide me should do that, if you want that kind of tracking)
  • Newsletter advertising works best if you can repeat it at least 2-4 times
  • Your content should be a good fit for the audience. Make sure it’s high quality & targetted to Linux or open source users or web developers.

Previous sponsors include Datadog , GoCD , Oh Dear , DNS Spy & plenty of others .

Interested? Read more about the sponsorship program.