[Chapter-delegates] Membership System

[Franck Martin]

Ok, this raise a couple of points/priority:

1) reduce the numbers of screen to join, make it easy and make an e-mail 
check mandatory at least.

2) the system must be in several languages, I should be able to read the 
screen in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese. Other languages like 
Hindi, Chinese, Arab, would be cool but may be unrealistic to implement 
with current system. NB the chapters can translate the screens if needed.

3) an e-mail to be sent to 2 chapters officers each time someone wants 
to join a chapter. Why should I check the site every week if nothing 
happened?

4) options: ISOC collect the chapter fee, or it is indicated that the 
chapter will contact you to collect the chapter fee of xxx in local 
currency. Option to be chosen by chapters.

5) a link to the chapter website when the user has joined (here more 
information).

6) membership management. Differentiation between a member that join 
from a member that renews membership

7) check that the member is alive before doing an automatic renewal 
(e-mails sent, etc...)

8) possibility to send test e-mails to check e-mail addresses are still 
valid.

9) possibility for chapters to enter themselves their members in the 
free category at least.

Cheers

Peter Koch wrote:

>David, fellow Chapter members,
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>>. The system not being international enough:
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>>a. No international character sets
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>>b. No currencies other than dollars
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>>c. Only available in English
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>While (a) is a concern and (c) probably a lesser problem in our case, (b)
>is not represented correctly IMHO. It's not only about currency. It simply
>doesn't make sense to move our chapter members' fees from DE (or Europe)
>through the US back to DE (unless you are one of the banks involved).
>I understand that we do not have to use this feature but then it should
>be completely disabled for our chapter. A fee of 0 (in whatever currency)
>is misleading. What's also misleading is that the system suggests that
>people could sign up for our chapter by simply filling out the web form.
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>>this point in time. Moreover, 1155 new global members have joined ISOC
>>using the web based membership system since it was unveiled on October
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>We haven't seen any notification of new "chapter members" since then,
>unfortunately.
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>-Peter
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