How does one know they are not providing any of the service (implementation or customization) if they choose to be listed as a service provider?
As long as someone is a member of the foundation and he/she decides that their name should be listed as âService providerâ should remain. No one should make a judgment and decide on the listing.
I think this only means that they will not get priority in the order of listing similar to Gold or Silver members but paid individual members would be still listed. It is just the order of listing as mentioned in the foundation membership link also.
As I said in my post, it is the âorder of listingâ, no one is saying individual members who pay donât get listed. I am not sure what has lead you to that interpretation.
I upvote to stop free listing for the non-members and free Service Providers. Following are some of the reasons why I say so.
Many Service Providers are not active now. It would be expensive for the foundation to track activation of these members. Some customers try reaching to inactive Service Provider which leaves a bad impression.
The active service providers has generated good leads and incentives from the listing. Now, that foundation has given them enough exposure and business to get started, itâs just fair to ask them to become a foundation member for the continued listing. Afterall, foundation is a non-profit and has itâs own roadmap to fullfill, for which resources are needed as well. Our individual membership starts with just $200/year.
What about those that answer questions, help others on here? they are not worth anything? even people who ask questions are doing something here. how do we keep them engaged and included? in the end i pay. but i am kinda worried about how little time is spent to community concerns and lot more on internal concerns.
Although it doesnât showcase anything on erpnext.org discourse has nice feature to check user stats and activity. 7000+ users right now. Frappe Forum
I think the concerns/requests have been put forth by many :
Maintenance of long term stable versions
Encourage integrations as opposed to saying âwhy donât you use the XZY feature in ERPNext?â (because people are already invested)
Creating a shared vision â what is the point of a foundation if they foundation cannot create shared vision, path and hold itself accountable to an ETA as opposed to âas the developers likeâ
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Finally, those who have listings and not paid, best way to convert them into paying members.
Instead of doing adwords or another type marketing.
100 unpaid members converted x $200 = 20k (that is worth 40 months of marketing budget & efforts)
Some just pay money to listed as Members of ERPNext.org or some buy membership to donate money money to foundation. So their should be option to list as member but not list as service providers?
