You need a business plan (and perhaps more things besides)
What I mean, @ilariadauria was how you win, not just how you get to the next phase. I looked up the website, and it seems the jury will make its final assessment on the basis of a business plan. You and I have already established that the unMonastery’s uncomprimising logic rooted in the sharing economy makes it very difficult to write a business plan for it. How are we going to achieve sustainability? By non-transactional means, making ourselves appreciated so that the local community will want to support us. How do we scale? We don’t, we replicate by memetic material like St. Benedict’s Rule. You can see how a jury will have trouble squaring such an unusual approach with objective criteria.
However, if the unMonastery cannot make a credible attempt at winning, there is no point in depleting social capital by asking people to vote. We would just create frustration – and, frankly, by channeling people onto CheFare you renounce channeling the same people onto, say, Kickstarter to crowdfund the next LOTE. We can do it, but we need to know we have a serious chance to win! So, I would propose to work backwards:
- establish the conditions that make the unMonastery a credible contender.
- Cover all those bases, making sure someone is working on a business plan that will speak the language of business plans to someone who is used to assessing business plans. Similar activities might be needed to cover bases for winning other than the business plan, too.
- Then ask for votes.