On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: > We haven't made much progress on our goal of 10 subscribers a month. > (Although we continue to get donations, just not new subscribers.) > > Paul, can we add this to the IRC meeting agenda? Do we have a new time for > that? Would you like me to help organize it?
First observation, this page needs to be updated: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ Says 2008, obviously we're looking at 2009 donations now. (Sidebar) We're asking people to give $10 or more per month. What's the incentive? (Aside from supporting GNOME, of course -- but this is like public television, everybody assumes someone else will donate.) A comparable program would be the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They do a pretty good job of 1) telling people what they support with newsletters, campaigns, etc. and 2) they give swag yearly. I see there's a t-shirt but maybe that's not very compelling for $120 (or more) a year. What could we put in place that would encourage people to not only sign up, but also try to persuade others? Is there any way to have a referral code? Extra recognition for people who bring in more people? Given GNOME's user base, it should be possible to bring in more than 10 people per month. Another consideration: Some people might feel nickle and dimed. Not by GNOME specifically, but it seems like everybody has a hand out. If I donated at the $10 a month level to all the organizations I "support" I'd probably be looking at $50 - $100 per month. Any way to "bundle" this with other orgs/related businesses? An example: What about doing a revenue share with Linux Weekly News and giving each person a membership to LWN + FoG? Or a triple play with the Linux Foundation? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list