<div dir="ltr">Evan:<div><br></div><div>Welcome to the never ending AMS discussion. We tried to keep our own membership database synchronized with the AMS and it was really a pain especially when you have to do the renewals in the AMS in synchronization with your own. We gave up and are using the AMS 100%.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-ed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Evan Leibovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org" target="_blank">evan@telly.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It's not our preference to have redundant systems. But since the AMS can't handle things we need such as online payments, multiple membership categories and corporate members at the chapter level, we don't have much of a choice. Some of the options being considered (ie, CiviCRM, thanks Cesar!) also include volunteer skills management and fundraising/sponsorship/grant tools.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Christian wrote:</div><div class="im"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<i>How do you propose to handle data protection issues around individuals signing up directly at the AMS and your membership service? Or is Canadian law not fussed?</i></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div>We intend to have a membership management system that will be compliant with local laws and a privacy policy is under development. Beyond that I'm not sure I understand your question. <br></div><div class="im"><div>
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<br></div><div>Then Joly wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i>And, how do you anticipate reconciling with the Chapter portal?</i></blockquote>
<div><br></div></div></div><div>The link will be the ISOC membership number, the possession of which of course is a mandatory element of Chapter membership. ISOC members' requesting membership in the Canada chapter will be brought into our site to complete the process. Yes, it will require periodic manual synchronization that might be automated, if there is a better path I'm certainly open to it.<br>
</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It's unfortunate that the AMS comes close to what we need but misses a number of critical components. There is a Sitefinity plugin for ecommerce, but adding it -- and making it adaptable to international chapter needs as indicated above -- would be non-trivial.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In my perfect world, there could be a global provider of hosting and payment services (I'm thinking Amazon Web Services or something similar) that could provide ISOC Global membership (both individual and institutional) services while also offering to Chapters a couple of templates for their own internal use. The templates could be offered to allow for different revenue models, to accommodate chapters that wish to levy their own dues and those which don't. However, common facilities such as fundraising and event-ticket management could be provided to all.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Heck, while I'm dreaming, such a service could be extended to give each chapter its own private hosting area. Right now such hosting is an out-of-pocket expense for us.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Should such a project be undertaken I would be happy to participate in its development -- I dare suggest that Amazon would be a willing partner and might even be persuaded to provide AWS at a discounted or free rate. This could be a phenomenal tool for building and growing chapters.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>-- <br><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">
Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote>
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