[OSMF-membership] Fwd: Re: Membership sign up through SOTM US

[Simon Poole]

I believe the question is moot given that membership fee changes have to be approved at/by a GM. So unless  the board is going to arrange for a vote on the matter before mid year it is not going to fly regardless of the merits of the idea.

Simon

On 28. Januar 2015 19:45:32 MEZ, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>  this is probably something that goes beyond the mandate of the
>newly-founded membership group, hence Cc: board. Frankly I don't think
>we should do a "special offer half price first year membership" because
>it causes extra admin work, might upset those who pay the normal rate,
>and also because I don't see how a £7.50 discount should tip the
>balance
>for someone who has already forked out for a trip to NYC and a SOTM-US
>ticket.
>
>Other opinions?
>
>Bye
>Frederik
>
>-------- Forwarded Message --------
>Subject: 	Re: Membership sign up through SOTM US
>Date: 	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:43:50 -0500
>From: 	Alex Barth <alex at openstreetmap.us>
>To: 	Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
>CC: 	Jonathan Bennett <jonobennett at gmail.com>,
>osmf-membership at openstreetmap.org
>
>
>
>Frederik, Jonathan:
>
>We just went live with the State of the Map US registration:
>https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/560490935071834113
>
>You'll see that there's no sign up option for OSM US nor OSMF on there.
>
>We discussed over here in organization committee and decided to send
>out
>an email to all attendees at a certain point specifically advertising
>to
>become a member to OSM US. We'll offer alongside a 50 % discount on
>first year of membership or similar (exact discount TBD).
>
>Would you be interested in offering a similar discount in the same
>mailing?
>
>Alex
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Alex Barth <alex at openstreetmap.us
><mailto:alex at openstreetmap.us>> wrote:
>
>    Frederik - this is roughly what I was thinking, yes.
>
>    Another option would be to just hand out coupon codes that entitle
>    recipients to a reduced membership fee. This would be purely
>    promotional and we would share such coupon codes with everybody who
>    signs up for the conference. Would that be interesting?
>
>    Upsides:
>
>   - you don't need to worry about this coupon code being shared in the
>    wild - it's just a time limited promotion
>    - you still drive sign ups
>    - less friction - there is one decision point less: attendees don't
>   need to decide whether they want to sign up for osmf at the point of
>    signing up for conference, they get a coupon code either way at
>    their free disposal
>
>    I am still prepping a couple of options to discuss with my board
>    colleagues.
>
>    On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org
>    <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>
>        Alex,
>
>        On 01/20/2015 11:30 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
>        > How is payment handled? Could there be a coupon code that
>people use for
>        > sign up to OSMF? We would issue this coupon code with
>conference tickets
>        > that opted into becoming members.
>        >
>        > Again, just exploring whether this could be an option.
>
>        So the flow you'd be thinking about is something like this
>        (correct me
>        if wrong):
>
>        1. We pre-generate a ton of coupon codes and send them to you
>
>        2. When someone signs up for SOTM-US you give them a chance of
>        joining
>        OSMF for extra $$$
>
>        3. When they check that box, they get one of the coupon codes
>
>        4. but they will still have to go to the OSMF signup page (at a
>        later
>        time) to register, and enter their coupon code to pay for their
>        first year
>
>   5. after a couple months, when the validity period of the coupons is
>      over, OSMF invoices OSMF-US for n times £15 depending on how many
>        coupons were used
>
>   I suspect this should be technically possible (Jonathan, can you say
>        something about that?), of course you'd have to somehow manage
>        to hand
>        out the individual coupon codes in the course of the Eventbrite
>        signup.
>
>        We'd of course have to take this by the OSMF board and the new
>        membership group but regarding members I guess the more the
>        merrier ;)
>
>        Bye
>        Frederik
>
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