Hello folks, 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.
CouchDB is not a B2B business, and so I'm not sure this particular part of the AdvocateHub fits our use case. 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? Some ideas: - 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? - 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 normally. (Remember that recruitment is our #1 biggest challenge.) - 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. Thoughts? Thanks, -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
