just to note that I’d be equally happy with disabling it. On 06 Jun 2014, at 17:49 , Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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