[Chapter-delegates] open license? (Re: Membership System)

[Patrick Vande Walle]

ReindeR Rustema said the following  on 07/02/2006 18:45:
> As a follow-up to what at 15:29 +0000 7/2/06, Tricia Drakes wrote:
>   
>> It may be that this option would provide a less expensive alternative rather
>> than the cost of upgrading the present system, and might also provide the
>> required functionality, ease of use etc. plus a much lower level of "ongoing
>> maintenance" cost and effort.
>>     
>
> Perhaps the system should be written under such a license that other 
> worldwide NGOs could use it for free. They might even want to improve 
>   

Dear Tricia and Reinder,

It is exactly what I suggested some time ago (actually at the time the
specs for the system were drafted, but I reiterated this some days ago
on the BoT mailing list).
I suggested to launch a project for a distributed membership system on
Sourceforge.

ISOC would then need to concentrate on an interface to the current
system, as it cannot be thrown away. It has cost a lot and does much
more than just the 3-4 pages that one sees on the membership site.

This being said, I still believe the current system could be saved by
redesigning the web interface. The basics are there and this is actually
a small job for a proficient web programmer, including multilingualism.

Once again, I think chapters could help ISOC. I guess we do have good
web programmers in our membership, who would be willing to do the for a
small fee. We only need to ask and give a clear description of what we
need. Thanks to the Internet, he/she would not even have to be
physically located in Reston our Geneva. This is another proposal I made
and I hope it will be welcomed.

Best regards,

Patrick
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