[HCoop-Discuss] Recruitment and Fundraising

[Justin S. Leitgeb]

Hi Robert,

I think that the recruitment/fund raising wiki page is a great idea.  
Why don't you go ahead and set it up?  I spoke with Nathan previously 
about perhaps putting announcements in Comp. Sci. departments in local 
universities, maybe we could put some preliminary resources related to 
this on the page you mentioned.

I also asked the group previously about setting up something through 
Powell's books like what you mentioned with Amazon.  At that time (a few 
months ago) it was decided that it would be more administrative hassle 
to do something like this than it was worth, mostly because of our 
status as a co-operative not-for-profit, I think, and the limit to the 
amount of revenue that we could generate that wasn't directly from 
members (or something to that effect).  The other ideas that you 
mentioned may work well, though.

Welcome to the group and thanks for these ideas... I think it's going to 
really be important to continue having these discussions as we settle 
into the new architecture and work to expand services and reduce member 
dues.

Justin

Robert Ledger wrote:
> Maybe we should start brainstorming ways to raise additional revenue
> and recruit new members.
>
> Perhaps have a page on the wiki for just that.  Would it be
> appropriate to have such a discussion in public?
>
> To start things off:
>
> 1. How about a competition with a years free membership as a prize for
> the winner.
>
> 2 How about having a paypal donate button for HCoop for any member
> willing to use it on their sites?
>
> 3 How about an HCoop account with  Amazon for members to advertise
> books on their sites, if they are willing?
>
> 4 How about an HCoop Adsense  account ditto?
>
> If you have already had this conversation I apologise, I'm a new
> member and haven't had time to read all the archived posts yet.
>
> --
> Robert Ledger
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