<div dir="ltr"><div>As Stewart mentioned, rewriting from scratch takes a lot of extra effort and I don't think LA has the resources for that type of task. There is a lot more to a conference management system then it first seems like. Plus anything which deals with billing gets complicated fast (writing a billing system seems to be a right of passage for become a real "grumpy old programmer" :).<br></div><div><br></div><div>If people really do want to replace ZooKeepr (which I'm not sure is *actually* the case) its worth checking out Symposion used by PyCon US and other conferences (<a href="http://eldarion.com/symposion/">http://eldarion.com/symposion/</a>) and contributing to that. The big problem with Symposion is that it has been highly North America focused and hence probably missing things needed by an Australian conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim 'mithro' Ansell</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 January 2015 at 13:52, Stewart Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stewart@flamingspork.com" target="_blank">stewart@flamingspork.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Michael Cordover <<a href="mailto:la@mjec.net">la@mjec.net</a>> writes:<br>
> On 16 January 2015 at 14:39, Kathy Reid <<a href="mailto:kathy@kathyreid.id.au">kathy@kathyreid.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>
>> While this is a great short term solution, I think we should (in parallel)<br>
>> discuss and debate a MemberDB replacement, likely something like CiviCRM.<br>
>> This is a bit more work and effort, but I think would have good long term<br>
>> returns, and address the pressing need for targeted member communications.<br>
><br>
> On this, I think it would be useful to do some project scoping - not<br>
> just around membership, but around all of the web-based systems we are<br>
> thining of upgrading. I know there's also been talk of a zookeepr<br>
> upgrade/rewrite. There are also probably other needs we should be<br>
> considering: other LA events, potential lobbying/other LA activities,<br>
> grants, Mailman 3 integration, Hurd compatibility etc etc etc.<br>
><br>
> The first step here would be wishlisting *everything*, and then<br>
> scoping it down into actual projects, then commencing work. Strategic<br>
> planning, yo.<br>
<br>
</span>The important thing to keep in mind is that this is all volunteer<br>
work. Zookeepr has been by volunteers from 2007 to get to where it is<br>
today.<br>
<br>
It would be a big judgement call to do a rewrite rather than incremental<br>
change - a lot of effort goes into getting all the basics again,<br>
something that occured about 3 times before we used Zookeepr for the<br>
second time.<br>
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Stewart Smith<br>
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