The thrilling benefits of OSGeo membership

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dear VisCom, (and WebCom cross-lurkers),

It would be possible if wanted to use the drupal-based "community portal"
site at http://community.osgeo.org/ to register the details of people
who come by the various OSGeo project booths at FOSS4G and EuroOSCON.

I made a stub page at http://community.osgeo.org/membership/ which
links through to the user registration module - I see Tyler put in a
great effort of replicating Frank's spec for user data to collect at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Membership_Application

If any of you felt like writing up, or wiki mining a writeup of, the
exciting benefits of becoming a member of OSGeo, that would be great.
Feedback on how this feels would also be of benefit.

Issues here are:
- This needs to be integrated with LDAP in future. I just turned LDAP
  authentication off for now.
- There's no link through to a payment mechanism for sponsoring
  membership. I recall some uncertainty about how soon this could
  happen - paypal is set up but there's no provision for 'free schwag'

I wish I'd had the time and stamina to do more on this site this week;
apols. I think it's a good basic framework and with a bit of CSS
slap-up would be worth pointing people at, but it may not have the
right 'VisCom gloss' yet.

cheers,

jo

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Jo,

Fantastic job on this! It even knew better than letting me reregister!

I assume we will need to manually handle things like subscribing people to the
announce and discuss lists, is that right?

BTW, I'm bring an extra crappy old laptop if it would be helpful to
leave it setup
in firefox in the OSGeo booth for people to go through the membership
application.

Best regards,

On 9/8/06, Jo Walsh <jo@frot.org> wrote:

dear VisCom, (and WebCom cross-lurkers),

It would be possible if wanted to use the drupal-based "community portal"
site at http://community.osgeo.org/ to register the details of people
who come by the various OSGeo project booths at FOSS4G and EuroOSCON.

I made a stub page at http://community.osgeo.org/membership/ which
links through to the user registration module - I see Tyler put in a
great effort of replicating Frank's spec for user data to collect at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Membership_Application

If any of you felt like writing up, or wiki mining a writeup of, the
exciting benefits of becoming a member of OSGeo, that would be great.
Feedback on how this feels would also be of benefit.

Issues here are:
- This needs to be integrated with LDAP in future. I just turned LDAP
  authentication off for now.
- There's no link through to a payment mechanism for sponsoring
  membership. I recall some uncertainty about how soon this could
  happen - paypal is set up but there's no provision for 'free schwag'

I wish I'd had the time and stamina to do more on this site this week;
apols. I think it's a good basic framework and with a bit of CSS
slap-up would be worth pointing people at, but it may not have the
right 'VisCom gloss' yet.

cheers,

jo

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Dear Jo:

A few nits:

* What does the "Committees" box on
http://community.osgeo.org/user/register page refer to? Is it for
joining the WebCom and VisCom mailing lists, or registering interest in
joining those two highly-esteemed organizations, or..?

* Also on that page, under "Username" it says *spaces* are allowed --
yikes, is that really correct?

* I also wonder if we should make people list their IRC nicks. I've
finally got zool and seven and spatialguru down now, but am still
wondering who f0urtyfive, snowbike, what_nick, and omniverdi are... :slight_smile:

Now, as to the good "membership benefits" question -- I am embarassed to
say I don't think VisCom has ever really tried to write down why anyone
would want to join us. (I think I just figured that we already had all
the cool people on board :slight_smile:

I don't have time to write something up right now, but I think I saw
someone (Jason?) putting some text like this together for the WebCom
gang?

-mpg

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Walsh [mailto:jo@frot.org]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:00 AM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Subject: [VisCom] The thrilling benefits of OSGeo membership

dear VisCom, (and WebCom cross-lurkers),

It would be possible if wanted to use the drupal-based
"community portal"
site at http://community.osgeo.org/ to register the details of people
who come by the various OSGeo project booths at FOSS4G and EuroOSCON.

I made a stub page at http://community.osgeo.org/membership/ which
links through to the user registration module - I see Tyler put in a
great effort of replicating Frank's spec for user data to collect at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Membership_Application

If any of you felt like writing up, or wiki mining a writeup of, the
exciting benefits of becoming a member of OSGeo, that would be great.
Feedback on how this feels would also be of benefit.

Issues here are:
- This needs to be integrated with LDAP in future. I just turned LDAP
  authentication off for now.
- There's no link through to a payment mechanism for sponsoring
  membership. I recall some uncertainty about how soon this could
  happen - paypal is set up but there's no provision for 'free schwag'

I wish I'd had the time and stamina to do more on this site this week;
apols. I think it's a good basic framework and with a bit of CSS
slap-up would be worth pointing people at, but it may not have the
right 'VisCom gloss' yet.

cheers,

jo

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