[OSMF-membership] Managing OSMF membership using CiviCRM

[Dave Corley]

Jonathan,

Just tried it out, looks good. Nice work so far on it.

As you say, unless there are objections/alternatives, I would be for
pressing ahead with this.

Dave

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Jonathan Bennett <jonobennett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Happy New Year everyone.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> You can try it out at https://crm.osmfoundation.org/join-the-osmf/ - it's
> in test mode so you can enter dummy credit card details to complete the
> sign-up.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Some things that need to happen before or around launch:
>
> * Design (i.e. it needs one)
> * Improve the copy for the site and the various automated emails the
> system generates
> * Internationalisation
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts at this stage? I will try to recruit some of
> the designers who have contributed to osm.org, unless anyone already here
> fancies taking that on?
>
> I can also elaborate more about how OSMF can use CiviCRM, but I figured
> this message is already long enough.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> *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.
>
>
>
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