Introduction

We have deployed general social network marketing by February, 2009. In March, we are starting to contact other stakeholders more directly, from the Open Everything category at the P2P Foundation site.

Our general procedure is to send an inquiry email, introducing ourselves, asking for feedback on our approach, asking people to talk to us further on the phone to introduce them to the project, and ask for suggestions on how we could succeed in our 2 year program. If they are interested in our work, we ask them to subscribe to our 1000 True Fans campaign.

Sample Email

Dear ______,

I saw your work on the P2P Foundation site. Allow me to introduce our work. We are building the world's first, replicable, open source, off-grid, Global Village. P2P Foudnation called us the 'important social experiment in the world.'

Please view our Distillations videos - http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=458 - for our 2 year program.

I'd like to hear your comments, as we're doing market research regarding the relevance of our work to a P2P economy, and we're looking for your input on our approach and strategy. If you are interested in this discussion - please provide your phone number so we can discuss this in more detail.

Please consider subscribing to this work, (http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Open_Source_Ecology:Site_support ). If you do not find this work compelling, please let us know what we are missing in general, and would be more convincing to you regarding our relevance.

Marcin

Status

We have 34 True Fans as of March 19, 2009. This is nowhere close to our goal of 1000, so we need to continue direct marketing. There is at least 400 orgnanizations at the P2P Foundation site, and our plan is to contact these people over the next month.

Other

• 3.4.09 - Edward to all people at http://www.resalliance.org/703.php and Will Steffen, Philip Sutton, Larry Peterson, and Andrew Outhwaite. Found through this article: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009494.html

Also previously contacted RU Sirius, James Clement, PZ Myers, Randall Parker, Noam Chomsky, and a bunch of other very random people. Probably to no avail. Anybody know any good libertarians who are open source enthusiasts?