Rent our Technology: making the technology ROOTs has developed available to the system.

So this is a hunch, but it's an educated one.  The technology that was recently created for ROOTS (integrated website, membership, registration, directory and development systems) might be something that could potentially be very valuable to other organizations.  If this is true for you, read on.

It would be in the best interests of an organization with a mission like ROOTS to facilitate that technology becoming available cost effectively to ROOTS organizations.

There are a couple of different scenarios and business models that would support something like that.

1) Rent your Event Registration:  for a processing and set up cost, there is a potential that ROOTs can, with the technology we have, 'rent' our website for processing event registrations for others.   In this case, ROOTS would benefit by expanding our database, while at the same time making it cost effective (and valuable) for members.

2) Get Power in Numbers:  If there were 5-10 of you who wanted some version of what ROOTS has, I would basically spend a lot of time building a way to replicate those sites (which is an initial focussed investment in time) and then make customizations so that it suits your organization.  Seriously, if there were a critical mass, this would be easy.  And if ROOTS saw it as an opportunity to further their mission, the initial work might be subsidized via ROOTS or another foundation...

3) Let's hear other Ideas:  Seriously, this is worth the time to brainstorm.  How much time do you personally waste in a day because the systems you are using are not supporting you?  Technology becomes cheaper the more people use it.  If we can spread this out, it could be affordable for everyone.  We would just need to think about the business model...  Anyone interested?  Comment below.