Attracting and Caring for New Members - 15 mins (Shelley and Ben)
Not sure what it would take to get a table at a convention like (Comic-Con and WorldCon). Mark knows someone who goes to Comic-Con.
Recruiting:
- Community Networking
- Find kindred researchers
- Biologists
- Find kindred communities
- Organize Kindred 2010 (to bring together researchers and communities)
- Membership building
- Booths/Tables at kindred conferences
- Comic-Con International (Comic Books and Pop Culture Convention)
- WorldCon (The World Science Fiction Convention)
- Literature-building
- Video projects
- Canon/"sacred texts"
- Continue to develop the wiki
New folks:
- Invite to call
- Something on the front page about joining the movement ... link to information about this call
- Get on the call even before they sign up (but conference calls only work well with a relatively small number of people, or a relatively large silent audience) ** Shelley: "I hope we have that problem some day"
- "I'm interested" Form to collect their real-name, email, three bullets about why they are interested
- Photos of real people on the front page ... prove we're not crazies
- WhoAreWe ... group photo and link to some photos
- Sol2009 ... attract and care for new members
- Proposed time: July 4,5 and a half day on 6
- Ongoing projects like with Water Partners International
- Communicate with new members in some fashion ... seems like a good idea
- Too weird to call them? ... I don't like to be called, I'd rather be called
- 1 or 2 welcoming emails (from the welcoming committee)
- If everyone sends email overwhelming (choose a location on wiki to coordinate)
- Newsletter (e-mail) ... or print and mail
- Small and in process of establishing culture ... maybe culture is one where we welcome people