RecruitingAndWelcoming

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