[Linux-aus] What's happening with the Membership Committee?

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

+1 practical. Good advice, Josh.

On 15 June 2015 at 13:29, Joshua Hesketh <josh at nitrotech.org> wrote:

>  Hey,
>
> So I think there are a lot of benefits to a fully fledged CRM.
>
> However, memberdb is in desperate need of an update. If we have nobody
> volunteering to implement a CRM type system for Linux Australia, and we do
> indeed still have volunteers looking at improving our membership management
> platform, then I think we should take them up on that kind offer as it'll
> be a great improvement.
>
> An update to memberdb will also better allow us to email our members
> rather than relying on a mailing list. That in of itself is a giant
> improvement.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
> On 14/06/15 11:47, Neill Cox wrote:
>
> I was one of the people who volunteered to work on updating memberdb, but
> I have not really done much beyond some initial investigation.
>
>  I am willing to do some work on memberdb, but I have very little in the
> way of PHP or Drupal skills.
>
>  My initial plan was to provide a REST API to the existing database, with
> a back end written in python, probably building on top of flask[1].
>
>  If that work would be useful to the council, I'd be happy to contribute.
> If CiviCRM is the direction the the council decided to go I don't think I
> will be able to contribute much to the effort.
>
>  I too had been a bit optimistic about just how much spare time I would
> actually have, so I have to apologise for not progressing this faster.
>
>  Whatever LA decides I'm happy to offer whatever help I can, but to be
> honest if it's Drupal/CiviCRM that's largely going to consist of best
> wishes :)
>
>  Cheers,
> Neill
>
>  [1] http://flask.pocoo.org/
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Kathy Reid <kathy at kathyreid.id.au> wrote:
>
>> Fair call.
>>
>> IMHO, patching MemberDB is not where LA should be focussing effort - I
>> strongly believe LA needs a full CRM like CiviCRM [1].
>> All good organisations need different thinking to catalyse direction ;-)
>>
>> So, I think we probably need a strategic call from LA here - patch
>> MemberDB or go for something like CiviCRM?
>>
>> My recommendation is that LA is now large enough, and has big enough
>> communications needs that it makes sense to go for something like CiviCRM.
>> We don't homebrew the website anymore - we use an established platform. It
>> no longer makes sense to homebrew the membership platform. CiviCRM also
>> sits on top of Drupal, meaning that platform change at the website level
>> wouldn't be needed. But Mikal is right, this would need to be scoped - and
>> it's a big piece of work - but one in the long run I think is very valuable.
>>
>> My availability is pretty shot until Feb 9th 2016.
>>
>> [1] https://civicrm.org/
>>
>>
>> On 14/06/15 07:49, Michael Still wrote:
>>
>>> So, my understanding was that we offered in the AGM to update memberdb
>>> to not be quite so bad. That got turned into a replacement CRM
>>> project, which meant several of the people involved no longer felt
>>> they had the skills to actually progress the effort. We have therefore
>>> stalled.
>>>
>>> To be completely honest, I feel like I mis-estimated how much spare
>>> time I'd have this year, and I don't think I have the bandwidth to
>>> provide a meaningful contribution to this effort. So, a subcommittee
>>> is a good idea, but I feel we might need to go and work out who would
>>> be able to serve on it first.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Kathy Reid <kathy at kathyreid.id.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There was some talk a few months ago [1] of having a Membership
>>>> Subcommittee
>>>> for LA, looking at replacing or enhancing MemberDB. This was a great
>>>> move
>>>> forward - MemberDB is end of life.
>>>> Has this progressed at all and are folks ihere nterested?
>>>>
>>>> If so I will formally propose a motion to Council to form this
>>>> Subcommittee.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Kathy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2015-February/022032.html
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