<div dir="ltr"><div>Reusing existing FOSS software sounds like a great idea. I think MemberDB has shown LA doesn't really have the current manpower to maintain our own solution (and that manpower is probably better spent on improving other areas anyway). With something like CiviCRM we get a bunch of new useful features without having to dedicate the extra effort to actually writing them. It also has the added benefit that If we added "<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">onlineĀ </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">preferential voting" to something like CiviCRM, then others can start using our more enlightened form of voting too :)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Tim 'mithro' Ansell</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 January 2015 at 13:41, 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="">Kathy Reid <<a href="mailto:kathy@kathyreid.id.au">kathy@kathyreid.id.au</a>> writes:<br>
> First of all, many thanks to Mikal for starting this conversation, and<br>
> to those who've volunteered to make MemberDB better.<br>
><br>
> While this is a great short term solution, I think we should (in<br>
> parallel) discuss and debate a MemberDB replacement, likely something<br>
> like CiviCRM. This is a bit more work and effort, but I think would have<br>
> good long term returns, and address the pressing need for targeted<br>
> member communications.<br>
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</span>The big thing that was never covered by any other system was online<br>
preferential voting.<br>
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Stewart Smith<br>
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