[Chapter-delegates] members.isoc.orgc

[Rudi Vansnick]

Op 13/02/2010 12:46, Joly MacFie schreef:
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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid at sfbayisoc.org 
> <mailto:zaid at sfbayisoc.org>> wrote:
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>     Joly, looks like we have the same challenges of having prospective
>     chapter
>     members join ISOC global. I have a detailed page on how to become
>     a chapter
>     member http://www.sfbayisoc.org/join, about a year ago
>
>
> As do we Zaid, a little older but now updated.
>
> So, in fact, http://www.isoc.org/join/ already works - who knew ? :)
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>     I had a hard time
>     growing the chapter members because asking them just to go to ISOC
>     website
>     and become a member was confusing. I found that creating a join
>     page and
>     linking it to ISOC made the process simpler and also made it
>     easier to grow
>     our membership base.
>
>
> I note that some chapters, such as Poland, still use their own sign up 
> form, and Puerto Rico don't mess around
> they take you straight to paypal!!
Why shouldn't we not be allowed to have our own sign up form ? Do not 
forget not everybody speaks English.
And one of the basic principles of a chapter is to address the local 
community. So I would suggest chapters will always be allowed to offer 
local sign up forms.

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>     A suggestion I would like to make is if the new web development
>     team of
>     ISOC's website redesign could look into building an API for
>     membership. This
>     would make it simple for chapters to pass new members to ISOC.
>
>
> I am sure this is already an ultimate aim of the AMS project. We must 
> be patient!

And to be honest, the sign up form is not that sexy ... perhaps a 
redesign of the sign-up page could be on the priority list...

Rudi Vansnick
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