[HCoop-Discuss] Recruitment and Fundraising

[Davor Ocelic]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:44:25 -0800
Graham Freeman <graham.freeman at cernio.com> wrote:

> 
> On 19 Nov, 2006, at 04:38 , Robert Ledger wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we should start brainstorming ways to raise additional revenue
> > and recruit new members.
> 
> 
> Why?
> 
> What's the motivation for gaining new members?  What are current  
> membership levels, and what are the desired numbers?

We've got a hundred members now, and we definitely want to expand
(otherwise, why the new infrastructure and all long-term plans?).

Also, looking at the pledges page ( https://members.hcoop.net/portal/pledge )
we are 75 members "short" of achieving the goal of less than $5/month per
member. (We did reach this goal, but only by having members pay extra to
"virtually" boost membership count. For example, Adam pledged for 15 users,
so he will be paying about $70 a month. Obviously not a desired long-term
situation).


The only problem with recruiting new members are the target user groups.
I don't think we should go into general advertising (just yet, at least).

Someone here listed us under Python hosting and that brought some new
members. I like this kind of promotion best. We could do this for all
software we use, and then maybe even find a few prospective ones that
we could start supporting.

Have a good day folks,
-doc