<div dir="ltr">Jonathan, <div><br></div><div>Just tried it out, looks good. Nice work so far on it. </div><div><br></div><div>As you say, unless there are objections/alternatives, I would be for pressing ahead with this. </div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Jonathan Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonobennett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonobennett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Happy New Year everyone.<br>
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One of the issues with OSMF membership up to this point has been the manual nature of the sign-up and renewal process. After some investigation I think adopting CiviCRM for the OSMF will solve this problem (and possibly many others the foundation faces).<br>
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To cut a long story short* I've been working on a test installation for the OSMF since last year, but had to put things on hold for a while. I've now got things to a stage where self-service individual membership is functional, but ugly.<br>
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You can try it out at <a href="https://crm.osmfoundation.org/join-the-osmf/" target="_blank">https://crm.osmfoundation.org/<u></u>join-the-osmf/</a> - it's in test mode so you can enter dummy credit card details to complete the sign-up.<br>
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Corporate membership is configured in the CiviCRM back-end, but there are no self-service pages for it as yet - applications would need to be handled manually for the time being.<br>
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CiviCRM does seem to be a good fit for the OSMF -- it's FLOSS, it can handle memberships, events (e.g. SotM), campaigns (e.g. the quasi-annual server fundraising drive), and OSM-US is already using it with (I believe) some measure of success.<br>
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If no-one objects, I think we should press ahead with getting this system live for new sign-ups, with existing members added to the system shortly afterwards.<br>
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Some things that need to happen before or around launch:<br>
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* Design (i.e. it needs one)<br>
* Improve the copy for the site and the various automated emails the system generates<br>
* Internationalisation<br>
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Does anyone have any thoughts at this stage? I will try to recruit some of the designers who have contributed to <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a>, unless anyone already here fancies taking that on?<br>
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I can also elaborate more about how OSMF can use CiviCRM, but I figured this message is already long enough.<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Jonathan<br>
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*I've been involved in the Communications Working Group for a few years, and when it was working well we often discussed improving the materials around OSMF membership, but my memory is that some of the problems we saw were with the process as much as the words used around it. I had reason to investigate CiviCRM for another organisation I'm involved in, and at some face-to-face event in London (i.e. the pub) I chatted about it with Tom Hughes. He revealed a previous test installation, but based on Drupal, whereas I'd been investigating using WordPress as the host CMS. I volunteered to restart the work for OSMF, Tom checked this was OK with the board and we went ahead.<br>
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