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 > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
