[OSMF-membership] Managing OSMF membership using CiviCRM

[Jonathan Harley]

On 05/01/15 22:07, Jonathan Bennett 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).
>

Hi Jonathan, and everyone, I think it would be a good idea to dig into 
what problems the OSMF does face before continuing. It would be a shame 
to do something only to find it constrains our choices in the future. 
Perhaps a brainstorming session?

It might also be helpful to know what other investigation you did?

> 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.
>

Can it allow users to change between full and associate membership? 
Wasn't there a recent change to allow free memberships, can that be handled?

> 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.
>

Any idea who we could talk to about how they use it? Richard, do you know?

> I can also elaborate more about how OSMF can use CiviCRM, but I 
> figured this message is already long enough.

I know I'd be interested. Dave and I have been talking about how to 
define the scope of the working group. I was holding off because I was 
hoping more of the people who signed up on the wiki would say hello. 
Serge, Fred, Simon, Ilya - are you with us?


Jon.

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