[HCoop-Discuss] On organizing people to get work done

[Lauren McNees]

Even if your $2000/month for 1/2 time work is a reasonable estimate, I think
we're going to have a hard time selling a 100% increase to $10/month to
hcoop members. My opinion is that its reasonable to set new member dues at
$7-8, and recommend but not require that existing members upgrade to $7-8,
and also do some more outreach/marketing to attract new members. Does anyone
know what our membership growth rate is currently? Another idea: what about
starting with a quarter-time person?

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:

> docelic at mire.hcoop.net wrote:
> > I personally was one of the people who like the idea of HCoop due to
> being
> > a non-profit and not charging more than absolutely needed.
> > Some kind of a "limit" I've always had in mind when thinking about
> > per-member due was $7.
> >
>
> I think that is quite a reasonable target, even if we get a half-time
> paid staff member, if we grow membership enough. Just considering our
> current member base and the $2/mo. dues increase that follows your
> suggestion, we end up with $266/mo. "extra" to pay staff. From my
> experience being a graduate student in CS, normal pay for half-time
> research assistants is under $2000/mo.. (And that is for quite
> highly-skilled work compared to sysadmin'ing for "normal"
> architectures.) At $7/mo./member, we would only need 867 more members to
> close the gap to $2000; and we might be able to save money by finding a
> better physical hosting situation. It seems like a stretch to assume
> we'll get to that membership level in the next few years, but it's not
> at all out of the question, if we get a stable platform that overcomes
> the current most popular gripes. If we raise dues to $10 instead of $7,
> we only need 267 more members to fund a $2000/mo. part-time staff
> member, if other costs remain the same.
>
> I can't see how we can get to that point without dues above $7 in the
> mean-time, though, through extra pledges or a higher fixed amount for
> each member.
>
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