Since NotTooHot is a private club for members only, I have been thinking about how to implement this. Our concept of a private club is to make it a place for members to have fun with friends in a pleasant atmosphere. Part of the atmosphere is to make the club active but not overwhelmed by people. We arbitrarily chose 500 people as the maximum number of members. This limit is our best guess as to how to keep the club from being overwhelmed with people, but still have enough visitors that the Club is not empty. Of course people vote with their feet and we have to make the Club fun and a place people want to go to.
The requirement to visit the Club at least once a month means that people will visit or lose their membership. Over time people who like it at NotTooHot will be members and those who don't will weed themselves out.
So, it might seem that we just turn on the members only button in the Parcel Details and that's that. But it's not quite that easy I think. A couple of things make me consider a more subtle approach. We are now at about 200 members. Riddle and I have invited all our friends and now new members will be people recommended to us by existing members. Think about a friend you might want to invite to join NotTooHot. Of course, almost everyone is full on groups so you need to convince the person to leave another group to join the Club. It would be a whole lot easier if the person could visit the club and see the fun that he/she could have.
A second consideration is that the tips that performers (DJs, live musicians and dance groups) get depend in part on the number of people in the audience. It's also more fun to perform in front of a larger group than an empty house.
Since I am in charge of the schedule, here is how I will proceed:
The requirement to visit the Club at least once a month means that people will visit or lose their membership. Over time people who like it at NotTooHot will be members and those who don't will weed themselves out.
So, it might seem that we just turn on the members only button in the Parcel Details and that's that. But it's not quite that easy I think. A couple of things make me consider a more subtle approach. We are now at about 200 members. Riddle and I have invited all our friends and now new members will be people recommended to us by existing members. Think about a friend you might want to invite to join NotTooHot. Of course, almost everyone is full on groups so you need to convince the person to leave another group to join the Club. It would be a whole lot easier if the person could visit the club and see the fun that he/she could have.
A second consideration is that the tips that performers (DJs, live musicians and dance groups) get depend in part on the number of people in the audience. It's also more fun to perform in front of a larger group than an empty house.
Since I am in charge of the schedule, here is how I will proceed:
- When there is no event scheduled, the club will be set for Members Only (MO). This means you can't bring a non-member friend just to hang out. If you DJ impromptu, it will be for members only.
- Initially, all scheduled events will be set for Open to the Public (OP). Riddle or I will set this in the Parcel Details. The person leading the event can tell me to make the event MO if she/he prefers.
- As attendance at events increases I will talk with the performer to decide together whether to make the event MO or OP.
- Once we get to 500 members and have a full schedule of events, all events will be MO. We will have occasional OP days so you can still show off your Club to people.
We are all new to the idea of a private Club in SL, so if you have thoughts about this approach, let me know.
I will identify in the Daily Notice whether an event is MO or OP.
xxx
Nottoo
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