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

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

At this stage, it looks like we don't have anyone to do it at all...
committee of one, anyone? :)

I think committee is just the term for 'group of people who will get it
done together' -- at least that how I am interpreting it.

On 15 June 2015 at 18:47, David Lloyd <lloy0076 at adam.com.au> wrote:

>
> Actually,
>
> Why do we need a COMMITTEE to do this? We’re sounding like the Trade
> Federation and Intergalactic Senate…
>
> :(
>
> On 15 Jun 2015, at 2:52 pm, Michael Cordover <la at mjec.net> wrote:
>
> On 15 June 2015 at 13:29, Joshua Hesketh <josh at nitrotech.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> You won't get any dissent from me on this.
>
> However, I think we may be overestimating the effort involved in a CRM
> implementation. My understanding is that CiviCRM meets all our membership
> management requirements, it just doesn't have a voting. Is this correct?
>
> I'd be happy to spend a couple of weekends hacking together a voting
> module; it's basically the existing nominate/vote/count parts of memberdb
> Drupalised.
>
> Until something is written and rigorously tested we can manage membership
> in CiviCRM and then pull the database into a memberdb instance. There are
> hooks in CiviCRM so that process is not particularly strenuous to automate
> (provided we know enough about memberdb internals to update the database
> directly, which I think we self-evidently do).
>
> Someone pull me up if I'm drastically underestimating the scope of this,
> but otherwise I'm happy to put my hand to at least spin up a CiviCRM test
> so we can start poking at something.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
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