CiviCRM <http://civicrm.org> is a heavy system that can handle these tasks and much more. It lives in Drupal and can play well with Wordpress. Check it out and let me know if you'd like info, help, etc. I'm not a Civi guy but I have friends who are.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Thomas Levine <thomas.lev...@gmail.com>wrote: > > - Register <http://arbovirus.thomaslevine.com/> > - API <http://arbovirus.thomaslevine.com/api/json/> > - Code <https://gitorious.org/tlevine/fc_newchapters> > > 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 the data)--fine if our live list is a bit out of date, but not fine if 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@freeculture.org > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- Devin Balkind Director, Sarapis Foundation de...@sarapisfoundation.org @devinbalkind
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