Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:02:27 +0100 From: Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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. I agree, I think a grass-roots style advertising would be the most beneficial way for HCoop to expand. I'm for sustainable and maintainable expansion if it will help provide more resources for the improvement of the infastructure and the capacity of the servers. However, I don't want HCoop to be burdened with the increased cost and associated troubles of broad mass market advertising campaigns. For one thing, that will generally lead to less "qualified" individuals signing up. Right now, the fact that the services are oriented towards more experienced administrators is a definite plus in my mind, since I can actually do what I want, and not have that overhead of huge advertising, large "user-friendly" systems which I wouldn't want to pay for anyways, and other such generally popular but geek-unfriendly niceties that I anticipate would follow a large and broad marketing campaign. Using a grass-roots expansion method would help maintain a nice, natural method for filtering users, and should still create enough of a growth rate (since many members seem to be willing to do their parts) to ensure improvement of services. Just a thought. - Aaron Hsu _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
