[OSMF-membership] Membership sign up through SOTM US

[Alex Barth]

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> 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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> Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
>



-- 
Alex Barth
Vice President
OpenStreetMap United States Inc.
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