[Chapter-delegates] Membership System

[Franck Martin]

Rosa,

You are bringing the "interesting" point. Because after that the board 
will be able to say, we have reviewed the points you made, we are 
forming a committee to form a committee to disolve all these problems 
and therefore you cannot complain about the same points forever...

Some interesting links:
http://www.isoc.be/chde/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/40/0.php
http://www.kavi.com/solutions/
http://www.imanet.org/CMPro/Index.htm

However, thanks Rosa to bring all of this to the board and hopefully 
find an acceptable solution...

Cheers

Rosa Delgado wrote:

>Thanks for your input. 
>
>We have already a good issues list to transmit to the board. One thing
>is sure we cannot continue complaining about the same points for ever
>so, I wonder if to form a WG (ISOC, chapters) to discuss each of the
>points at once will be effective. This WG could perhaps seek to these
>and other issues.
>
>Regards/Rosa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: W. Majewski [mailto:wladek at isoc.org.pl] 
>Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:02
>To: Rosa Delgado
>Cc: 'Franck Martin'; 'Luc Faubert'; chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org;
>'Vint Cerf'
>Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Membership System
>
>
>Rosa,
>
>  
>
>>I think Wladek had this sort of list in the past, if so can we have an
>>updated list we will try to coordinate the problem at once
>>    
>>
>
>Let me start with "Carthago delenda ext!"
>
>Current membership system is broken beyond repair options. No basic 
>functionality works up to reasonable expectations. It would be cheaper 
>and faster to specify and implement a new one.
>
>Specific problems:
>
>(showstopper) Non-ASCII scripts (including right-to-left ones) inputable
>
>into ALL fields. This is a fundamental reason for necessity to dump 
>current system.
>
>**** chapter's membership data import / database synchronisation. 
>Chapters have own membership systems, usually much better than ISOC's 
>one. We need a distributed database instead of universal forms.
>
>**** Possibility to integrate membership forms into chapter's webpage
>
>**** Get rid of cumbersome "shopping procedure" with $0 value for 
>"chapter membership".
>
>**** Membership reneval policy should be customizable for chapters
>
>
>Rgds
>
>Wladek
>  
>

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