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Hello Michael,<br>
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If that's a serious offer then that would be amazing! What we really
need though is somebody to champion the system, make sure it has all
the functionality and integration we need and help with the
migration of members/data.<br>
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Kathy had a set of basic requirements that hopefully she'll share.<br>
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I think there are three very important primary goals I'd like to
achieve.<br>
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1) Managing members (signing up, approving accounts, updating
contact details etc)<br>
2) Managing elections<br>
3) Contacting/mailing members<br>
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I'm not really sure what actually deploying civiCRM and migrating
our users sanely would look like. On top of that it also sounds like
some kind of voting module would need to be built. In other words,
I'm not sure how much work my top 3 priorities actually are.<br>
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If you're still interested let me know what you think or if you need
any help/resources (for example a dev/demo vm).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Josh<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/06/15 15:22, Michael Cordover
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 June 2015 at 13:29, Joshua
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">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.<br>
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<div>You won't get any dissent from me on this.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Michael</div>
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