Wouldn't it be great if we had a Free Culture Co-Op where projects like this could already have some basic infrastructure and available human resources to draw from in the initial scaling of a project? A good analogy is moving from server based hosting to cloud-based hosting, where your bandwidth can scale on demand. Similarly projects like Diaspora could start within the umbrella of a co-op, have some initial support from members, and then have the freedom to grow from there.
I think this has been discussed before, but maybe we need to revive the idea. Not trying to cramp Diaspora's style here (I'm sure they'll do fine) but if a project in the FC family takes off again it would be awesome to be prepared to avoid the stress they're surely feeling. - Alex On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Parker Higgins <[email protected]>wrote: > Anybody brought into the project now probably wouldn't be qualified to > answer all the questions. But they could address many of the "great job, > guys!" messages that are surely coming in, respond to press inquiries in a > standard way (I'm not sure, at this point, whether the team is doing more > interviews or not, but it's probably one or the other), refer people with > frequently asked questions to a list of them, etc, etc. I don't think you'd > disagree that at this point these guys are likely getting a lot of contact > and their time is not best spent engaging with the general public, but > rather putting together a product. > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What's to say that this "secretary" will be qualified to answer all the >> questions they've been getting? Just sayin. >> >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A PR person might be fine. Get a recruiter to start looking for one >>> today. >>> >>> But my suggestion is: Call up a couple of temp agencies *right now* >>> and sign a secretary by tomorrow at lunch. Maybe it will be a wild >>> one-week gig for them; fine. >>> >>> But you never know how long you'll be in the spotlight: take advantage of >>> it. >>> >>> SJ >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Alex Kozak <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > My two cents: they have a huge opportunity here to scale this project >>> into a >>> > very successful venture (win-win for openness), so maybe it would serve >>> > long-term goals to hire PR rather than an "email answerer" :) >>> > It's just a small shift in scale-of-thought, but can make a difference >>> down >>> > the road. >>> > >>> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Precisely :) >>> >> >>> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Parker Higgins < >>> [email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > I'd guess somebody to handle correspondence with the outside world. >>> (Or >>> >> > at >>> >> > least, synthesize it to present to the team, accept a condensed >>> response >>> >> > from the team, and proliferate a more eloquent version.) The success >>> of >>> >> > the >>> >> > Kickstarter project means that there are almost 5000 people with a >>> >> > financial >>> >> > interest in the project in addition to all of the ones who are just >>> >> > interested... that probably adds up to a lot of questions and >>> general >>> >> > communication, and I think everybody is in agreement that what the >>> >> > Diaspora* >>> >> > guys need to do know is write some code. And now that they've got >>> the >>> >> > money >>> >> > to hire a person for the summer to just respond to e-mails and >>> whatnot, >>> >> > they >>> >> > probably ought to. >>> >> > Just my two cents, don't want to step on your toes, SJ. >>> >> > Parker >>> >> > >>> >> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Elizabeth Stark < >>> [email protected]> >>> >> > wrote: >>> >> >> >>> >> >> What do you mean by "secretary?" >>> >> >> >>> >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> >>> >> >> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> You'll be glad that you did. >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> SJ >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >> >>> Discuss mailing list >>> >> >>> [email protected] >>> >> >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> >> Discuss mailing list >>> >> >> [email protected] >>> >> >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>> >> > Discuss mailing list >>> >> > [email protected] >>> >> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Discuss mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Alex Kozak >>> > Program Assistant >>> > Creative Commons >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Discuss mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Alex Kozak Program Assistant Creative Commons
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