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Shall we finish this? Tom On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Parker <gamegu...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey free culturites! > > I think we should look at changing our chapter database system. The > features we want are: > > * students can register chapters themselves > * room for semantic data (school, current contact name, current > contact email, etc) as well as free-form "notes" > * when a student registers, they get an email, and so does > newchap...@freeculture.org (with some info and an invitation to chat) > * export to JSON (or API or something) so that we can tie it in to our > website (can settle on this one and write some python to scrape out > the data)--fine if our live list is a bit out of date, but not fine if > new chapters are failing to make contact, as they are now. > > Anyone have any ideas? I'm interested in both software that we would > run on our servers and in web services that we could use. > > more info on the current system: > ---------------------------------------------- > > Right now, we use a google spreadsheet, where people join by filling > in a standard google spreadshet form, and we look through our list of > chapters by opening the spreadsheet. Then we have a python script that > runs nightly on our server, looks for new chapters, and if it finds > any, sends an email to the person who registered it and to > newchap...@freeculture.org. That python script seems to have broken, > so people are registering chapters and not hearing back from us. > That's majorly lame. > > If you're interested in helping fix this python script, drop me a > line! In general, we need a lot more help maintaining our web > services. This involves both technical and non-technical needs. > > -- > http://www.madebyparker.com > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@freeculture.org > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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