Sounds like an impedance mismatch. Disable the functionality. It'd be nice to know how people get to our community, and it's good to have a consultancy network, but this really sounds more like a support function for channel partnerships and revenue recognition -- "virtual finders fees" as it were. Not sure if we need that.
-Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> To: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], "Benoit Chesneau" <[email protected]>, "Dave Cottlehuber" <[email protected]>, "Jan L" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 8:11:00 AM Subject: Re: CouchDB referrals? I am particularly interested in the opinions of: - PMC members (from a governance perspective) - Marketing people (from a recruitment/community perspective) - People who offer CouchDB consulting (Jan, Dave, Benoit, etc.) On 4 June 2014 15:57, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
