Financial Crisis Response
We currently do not have enough money to keep Hackland afloat - this thread is for ideas and suggestions for how to resolve this
Poll Created Wed 3 Jul 2019 5:25AM
What are our favourite ideas for fixing the financial situation? Closed Wed 10 Jul 2019 5:01AM
Please add any ideas anyone has and feel free to change your votes etc
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | ||
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Incrase suggested minimum membership fee from $15 to $20 | 1 | 66.7% | 2 | 2.0 | ||
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Longer term membership options | 2 | 33.3% | 1 | 1.0 | ||
| rent party(market) | 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | |||
| One-off contribution from every member of e.g. 2 weeks of membership fees | 4 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | |||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
1 of 50 people have participated (2%)
baptiste Wed 3 Jul 2019 10:32AM
What s the shortfall, on average per month?
Simon Wed 3 Jul 2019 7:44PM
As a one-off, or an occasional thing, a garage sale could work, it could help get rid of a lot of the clutter.
Amanda Chapman Mon 15 Jul 2019 12:04AM
Agree!
cstewart000 Thu 4 Jul 2019 3:44AM
It would be great if we could have more meetup sessions to bring in people to do activities electronics/programming etc. Need more champions to run it.
Karsten Sperling Thu 4 Jul 2019 10:42AM
Sausage sizzle at Bunnings -- probably not a solution for the immediate need as I think they may need to be booked way in advance, but could be a good thing to try in the future while maybe also getting some more people to hear about Hackland that way.
Poll Created Fri 5 Jul 2019 5:31AM
Long term, discounted memberships Closed Fri 12 Jul 2019 5:02AM
no consensus reached - explore other options
To build up a survival buffer, we could offer year long memberships for say $500
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 50.0% | 2 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 50.0% | 2 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 46 |
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4 of 50 people have participated (8%)
Jorån Kikke
Fri 5 Jul 2019 5:32AM
I think this will be good - happy to oversee extra admin for tracking all the time stuff
Karsten Sperling
Wed 10 Jul 2019 11:17PM
Really depends on the level of discount offered -- $500/year is a discount of ~35%, which I think is way too high. It will help with cash flow now, but at the expense of getting even less money in overall and putting us in a worse position 6 months down the line. Something like $700/year might be sustainable. Overall though I think we should try to approach this as motivating people to chip in to keep Hackland alive, rather enticing them with a cheaper membership deal.
Courtenay Gasking · Wed 3 Jul 2019 8:41AM
rent party was common in NYC: you have an event every month to make up the shortfall- this could be a market where everything’s made and donated or a day where everyone refurbished bikes for sale (or whatever) key is the whole community comes together to donate their time and convert that into money