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Subject: Re: CouchDB referrals?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 16:05:49 +0200
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Hey Noah,

thanks for your work on this!

I think referrals as contributors is the best fit as far as I can see.

PMC hat: no objection, to the contrary, formalising recruitment is worth
at least this experiment.
Consulting hat: I don=92t think we are ready to explore toe commercial =
side
of things with the project. I believe we should work on that, but I=92m =
not
sure this aligns with what we want to use AdvocateHub for, so I=92d =
prefer
to keep this out and tackle when we get to it.

Best
Jan
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On 04 Jun 2014, at 15:57 , Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>=20
> The Influitive AdvocateHub has a primary concept of a referral. In the
> context of a business, a referral is when an advocate refers a contact
> to the business. Obviously, this is very valuable for B2B business
> that are looking for clients.
>=20
> CouchDB is not a B2B business, and so I'm not sure this particular
> part of the AdvocateHub fits our use case.
>=20
> We can turn it off. But before we do, I wanted to explore some other
> options. What could referrals mean for us, as a community?
>=20
> Some ideas:
>=20
> - A referral is just an advocate recommending CouchDB to a friend or
> colleague. In this scenario, who does the referral contact? Do we put
> them in touch with a mailing list (seems a little odd), a particular
> person, or particular persons?
>=20
> - A referral is more about contributors than it is about users. So the
> advocate would be referring a contributor to the CouchDB project.
> Perhaps a designer, a marketing person, a video blogger, a technical
> author, or whatever. People we find hard to recruit normallyI th.
> (Remember that recruitment is our #1 biggest challenge.)
>=20
> - A referral is a business referral. We set up a list for people who
> offer CouchDB services. A referral puts the a person in contact with
> this list of people. So tenders can be made individually by whomever
> is interested in the business.
>=20
> Thoughts?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> --=20
> Noah Slater
> https://twitter.com/nslater


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