Pitching Drutopia to Agaric as the focus for November
From the better-late-than-never department.
We have extra capacity, particularly for Micky, Chris, Clayton, and myself who are the most involved with Drutopia already.
A membership + donation drive for Drutopia will help establish if it’s viable.
Viable = $500,000 in annual income = 1,000 potential members.
Signing up 100 groups in presales in one month would be solid proof of viability. (Signing up 1,000 in a month, covering us for a year, is unfortunately unrealistic.)
If Drutopia agrees to divide up the income equally among people working on Drutopia, and treat Agaric as contributing three people and themselves two, after overhead we’d be able to pay for the four of us for that month.
We’d have to make a decision about how many resources to dedicate the next month, but if we get a few Drutopia+ sales (people paying $5,000 to $50,000 for strategy, design, or other work on top of Drutopia) we’re in good shape.
The plan:
Micky contacts five groups a day Clayton contacts ten groups a day Ben contacts seven groups a day Chris contacts five groups a day
Pitching November as coop growth / learning month to Drutopia:
- Objective 1: Prove there’s enough support for the basic concepts (cooperative of grassroots groups for LibreSaaS web sites) that our overall course makes sense.
- Objective 2: Learn from members just what we should be building, both platform and software, in more real detail. We do this by getting involved in their problem space, by making what they deal with what we deal with, in manageable groups of 5-10. Based on my reading of the 6 month plan, that could start in January.
TODO follow up with Amazee/Lagoon people.