Member Platform Zoom Meeting on February 13, 2025
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<h2>Original Google Doc</h2>
<p>You might find the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Os8p6PJ-toeNx8X_PAkkCPXEzKJ7YHJaAbGP_gofsFE/edit?usp=sharing">original Google Doc</a> from which this was copied to be easier to consume and to include additional detail (e.g. comments) not present in this issue.</p>
<h2>Who is here?</h2>
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Include your Drupal.org username in parenthesis if you have one and add sub-bullets with any a Drupal project you think Member Platform might take advantage of..
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<ul>
<li>JD Leonard (jdleonard)</li>
<li>Bob Snodgrass (bsnodgrass) <a href="mailto:bsnodgrass@net2community.com">bsnodgrass@net2community.com</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Drupal CMS - would it be a good idea to build on top of this for the platform?</li>
</ul>
<li>Barbara Errickson (barbarae)</li>
<li>Bhavin Joshi (beautifulmind) </li>
<li>Brian Sharpe (ridefree)</li>
<li>Andre Angelantoni (<a href="https://www.drupal.org/u/aangel">aangel</a>)</li>
<li>Kathryn Carruthers (kathc)</li>
<li>Salim Lakhani (Salim)</li>
</ul>
<h2>What Topics Should We Discuss? / Notes</h2>
<ul>
<li>(meeting will be recorded)</li>
<li>(click Share in the top right corner and add yourself as an Editor of this doc if you aren’t already)</li>
<li>Volunteer to be the main scribe for the meeting (regardless, all are welcome to contribute)</li>
<li>Introductions. Who are you and what did you have for breakfast?</li>
<ul>
<li>JD</li>
<ul>
<li>Glass of OJ</li>
</ul>
<li>Brian</li>
<ul>
<li>Toronto on a snow day!</li>
<li>Two breakfasts! Toast then steelcut oatmeal</li>
</ul>
<li>Andre</li>
<ul>
<li>Coffee with heavy whipping cream</li>
<li>In Vancouver then back to Mexico until May</li>
</ul>
<li>Bob</li>
<ul>
<li>In Chicago, needs to shovel snow</li>
<li>Only coffee so far</li>
</ul>
<li>Barbara</li>
<ul>
<li>On her iPhone and her elliptical machine!</li>
<li>Georgetown, TX near Austin</li>
<li>Just coffee</li>
</ul>
<li>Bhavin</li>
<ul>
<li>Wife cooked a great dinner</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>Feedback on the new name: Member Platform</li>
<ul>
<li>Domain name for future use: <a href="https://memberplatform.org">memberplatform.org</a> (redirects to d.o project)</li>
<li>Only heard positive feedback</li>
</ul>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/member">Our new project on Drupal.org</a></li>
<ul>
<li>Some stuff from the project page will move elsewhere once we have a better place for it</li>
<li>Notes from all past meetings in the issue queue</li>
<li>Proposal to use issue tracker to track… tasks!</li>
<ul>
<li>Invitation for anyone to create tasks</li>
</ul>
<li>Targeted the “member” namespace to provide flexibility for future projects in the ecosystem (e.g. member_whatever)</li>
<li>Any feedback?</li>
<ul>
<li>Not really</li>
</ul>
<li>Bob Snodgrass and Andre are both looking into notes history to get up to speed</li>
</ul>
<li>Contributor roles</li>
<ul>
<li>Ideally, what roles do we want involved? (<strong>bold</strong> are those for which no volunteers have yet been identified)</li>
<ul>
<li>Project manager</li>
<li>Business analyst</li>
<li><strong>Designer</strong></li>
<li><strong>Marketing</strong></li>
<li>Architect</li>
<li>Site builder</li>
<li>Frontend developer</li>
<li>Backend developer</li>
<li><strong>User experience specialist</strong></li>
<li>Internationalization specialist</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility specialist</strong></li>
<li>Tester</li>
<li>Customer</li>
<li>Community liaison</li>
</ul>
<li>Which roles can we currently fill?</li>
<ul>
<li>Barbara - Architecture, site builder, requirements definition, CiviCRM expertise, testing, user experience, migration between CiviCRM and CRM</li>
<li>Bhavin - Development, testing, project management, Architecture, internationalization </li>
<li>Andre - Would like to investigate integrating <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/campaign_kit">Campaign Kit</a> into Member</li>
<ul>
<li>Suggested to Brian that we start work on a recipe to install CK into Member</li>
</ul>
<li>Bob Snodgrass - project manager, site building, architecture, project browser and recipes initiatives, market testing with potential clients</li>
<li>Brian - project management, architecture, translating client needs to requirements, site building, some development, interested in working with recipes, helping refine user case, internationalization</li>
<li>Kathryn - site building, works directly with a couple of nonprofits using CiviCRM + Drupal Webforms+Views, keeping members out of CiviCRM, getting the Drupal community to use / promote without Drupal (working on DrupalCon Community Summit), on Advisory Council for Drupal CMS (community liaison)</li>
<li>JD - Architecture, back end development</li>
</ul>
<li>Need volunteers (everyone!?) to share project page / contributor needs to their networks (LinkedIn etc.)</li>
<ul>
<li>Brian</li>
<li>Bob Snodgrass - user group and camp work I can certainly promote</li>
<li>Andre - (copied from chat) I’m happy to help socialize the project. I’ve got decent reach (about 2500 Drupal developers on LinkedIn)</li>
<li>JD - LinkedIn and Austin Neighborhoods Council’s 50+ members, which are all MOs</li>
</ul>
<li>Encouragement for contributors to track your time</li>
</ul>
<li>CRM module</li>
<ul>
<li>Need volunteers to analyze and strategize how to contribute</li>
<ul>
<li>Need to hammer out requirements first</li>
</ul>
<li>We’re targeting the lower market not willing to use/invest in CiviCRM (yet)</li>
</ul>
<li>Theme</li>
<ul>
<li>Discussed in yesterday’s <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/event_platform">Event Platform</a> meeting</li>
<ul>
<li>Core themes aren’t great for out-of-the-box experience for many organizations</li>
<li>Need something organizations are willing to have their website look like (requires ability for end user to <em>easily</em> customize look and feel, colors, etc.)</li>
</ul>
<li>Volunteer needed to analyze suitability of CivicTheme (and other options) for both Member Platform and Event Platform?</li>
<ul>
<li>Need to consider Experience Builder’s potential to deprecate whatever we do with respect to content management and theme stuff</li>
<li>Suggestion to hold until DrupalCon announcements (DrupalCMS themes?)</li>
<li>Bhavin to create a document describing LocalGovDrupal base theme</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>Roadmap</li>
<ul>
<li>Discuss high-level proposal</li>
<ul>
<li>From André: would like to investigate incorporating <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/campaign_kit">Campaign Kit</a> into Member Platform</li>
<li>Do we have an overall functionality requirements doc? Asks Bob</li>
<ul>
<li>Not yet! First, need high-level roadmap</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>DrupalCon Atlanta participation - Community Summit, BOF (sessions?)</li>
<ul>
<li>JD giving a session about the journey of creating the Membership Platform project, a lightning talk for the Community Summit, and a breakout session for the Nonprofit Summit (to identify potential end users and their requirements)</li>
</ul>
<li>Cooperation with other community initiatives - Event Platform, CRM module, to reduce duplication of efforts</li>
<li>Created initial Roadmap issue <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/member/issues/3506522">https://www.drupal.org/project/member/issues/3506522</a> </li>
<li>Next Slack meeting: hammer out roadmap draft then review on following Zoom call</li>
</ul>
<li>Feature ideas</li>
<ul>
<li>Barbara: Provide a mechanism to create a survey that enables the respondents to rank items that have been pre-defined and provide a statistical result of ranked items + email it – allow participation without logging in – a way to expand participation across membership</li>
</ul>
<li>New logo next steps</li>
<ul>
<li>JD is a terrible designer, but here’s a mock up of one direction we could take: People surrounded by ways we help them:<br>
<img src="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2025-02-13/Logo%201.png" width="368" height="368" alt="Membership platform logo idea">
</li>
<li>Feedback on approximate direction?</li>
<ul>
<li>Consider having a puzzle piece logo, perhaps fitting in with other projects</li>
<li>Keep it simple</li>
</ul>
<li>Need volunteer to lead creation of a new logo?</li>
<ul>
<li>Need clarity on scope first unless we do something more generic about “members/membership”</li>
<li>Bhavin - (copied from chat) give it a try with members (people) surrounded by the Drupal logo. Just a thought</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>Identify next steps and assign action items</li>
</ul>
<h2>Action Items</h2>
<ul>
<li>Brian/Bob/Andre/JD (and anyone else willing) Publicize the project page to increase awareness and solicit additional contributors</li>
<li>JD - Archive meeting notes</li>
<li>JD - Draft a high-level description of MVP and rough milestones thereafter to get folks excited and thinking about requirements for collaboration during next Slack meeting and review during following Zoom meeting</li>
<li>JD - Survey my list of 50 NAs in Austin to understand how they currently manage their memberships, how they would like to manage their memberships, and details about the requirements for their memberships (realistically ask for their bylaws so I can distill)</li>
<li>Perform some competitor research / create competition matrix</li>
</ul>
<h2>Zoom Recording</h2>
<p>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1y7d_Arly9tU9cKZ8UcEdIgvAFmQGAU6i&usp=drive_fs">2025-02-13 Member Platform Meeting recording.mp4</a>
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<p>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1y8ZtJdvNuxo_io24C5hH6CT0qTsoS-qw&usp=drive_fs">2025-02-13 Member Platform Meeting chat.txt</a>
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