4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
12:22 p.m.
We just started membership last year: http://www.slcbikecollective.org/content/view/147/64/
Here are some generalizations I have noticed:
- Those that buy the Velorutionary level ($100) don't come into the shop
much, I would guess they just like what we are about and want to support us.
- Those that volunteer 40 hours for the Velorutionary level make for great
core volunteers. We made this a requirement to get a smart card (key) and we have seen several new faces get involved as a result.
- People are more likely to throw in $25 Cruiser Club Membership for using
the shop for a year than smaller amounts everytime they come in (which we ask for but don't require).
- Not many people are interested in the High Wheeler ($52 or 20 hours), it
seems like they are just looking to pay the minimum or they are gunning for the highest level.
- We are getting 50-60 people in a 4 hour period, so we are going to try to
open up more hours to hopefully spread that out.
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Jonathan Morrison
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Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
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Salt Lake City, UT 84115
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, yellow bike austinyellowbike@gmail.com
wrote:
> This is an interesting question, and I'm wondering if you have the same
> motivation as we in Austin are finding: we have WAY more people coming to
> use our shop than we can handle anymore. We don't want to send folks away,
> but we are starting to see 45 - 50 people coming in per four hour open
> shop. This is compared to maybe 20 - 25 folks a couple years ago.
>
> If we pull out all the portable stands, we have about thirteen stands and
> only eight complete tool sets; so it's pretty overwhelming to get so many
> people at once, and really diminishes everyone's experience. We've been
> toying with the idea of requiring folks to become collective members
> (volunteer 24 hours every three months) in order to gain free access to the
> shop, then charging others for shop use. But this might effectively
> increase demand for shop time since lots of folks who mostly work on their
> own bikes would now be trying to maintain 24 volunteer hours per season on
> top of their own personal time.
>
> On the other hand, more collective members means our all-volunteer run
> organization would potentially attract more coordinators to run shops, which
> would mean the shop could be open more often to accommodate all the hoards.
>
> We're planning on setting up a waiting area with reference library,
> magazines, coffee, social atmosphere at our new shop that we're hoping to
> move into this summer and just having folks take a number and get in line.
>
> What are people's experiences with this "problem?"
>
> Jennifer
> (Yellow Bike Project, Austin Texas)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Jessica McPherson jessica_mcp@yahoo.com
> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am wondering who out there has tried having membership requirements,
> > and how that has worked. Has it resulted in greater volunteer committment?
> > How has it affected the demographics of the people that use the shop? Has
> > anyone tried a set-up kind of like a food cooperative, where you have to
> > volunteer hours at the shop in order to be able to use it?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jessica (Free Ride, Pittsburgh)
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