Member Platform (Slack) Meeting on June 26, 2025
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<h2>0️⃣ Who is here today? Please post your <a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> username if you have one. We provide issue credit for those contributing to the meeting. Especially if this is your first meeting, please mention a non-profit or other membership organization (MO) you think could benefit from this initiative and/or tell us why you’re joining us.</h2>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>Bhavin Joshi (beautifulmind)</td>
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<td>mr_scumbag(Lee Walker)</td>
<td>Lee WalkerWant to use Member platform for the Boy Scouts, and our Local DUG (edited)</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>JD Leonard (jdleonard). In addition to my neighborhood association, I think a bunch of homeowners’ associations stand to benefit.</td>
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<td>James Shields</td>
<td>James Shields (lostcarpark)</td>
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<td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td>
<td>Bob Snodgrass (bsnodgrass) Fox Valley Drupal Users Group (Chicago Area)</td>
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<td>Steve Ayers</td>
<td>(bluegeek9)</td>
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<td>paulmckibben</td>
<td>(paulmckibben)Atlanta Drupal Users Group</td>
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<td>mtift</td>
<td>Matthew Tift (mtift), Lake Fellowship</td>
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<td>Nico Grienauer</td>
<td>Nico Grienauer (Grienauer)Drupal Austria/Splashawards/Drupical/EOWGadv</td>
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<h2>1️⃣ Do you have any topics to propose for the meeting today? Once initial thread creation dies down, open your own thread in the next numeric order. Or propose them in this thread, and then I will give them their own unique threads for discussion.</h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ What is holding you back from contributing to Member Platform (and CRM where much of the underlying functionality will live) beyond meetings? Lack of clear tasks to tackle? Lack of nontechnical tasks? Lack of interest in our direction? You’re busy doing other things? Something else? How can we get you productive? (edited) </h2>
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<td>kathc</td>
<td>I was initially drawn to the initiative as I was working on the Community Summit at Drupalcon. I work entirely on nonprofit/membership sites, but since I also work mostly with CiviCRM, I’ve stepped away because Civi already has all of the features that you’re starting to develop. If anyone wants to work on making CiviCRM more palatable to Drupal developers, I’d be in. 🙂</td>
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<td>paulmckibben</td>
<td>I continue to be deep in the weeds with client work, but I hope to get in there and start contributing soon!</td>
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<td>James Shields</td>
<td>Lack of time mostly! I should have more time from mid-July onwards.I have started tinkering with CRM module. A lot of the issues on its queue are fairly nebulous, and quite a few have open questions. I think it would be nice to have more issues with clear tasks people could take on.</td>
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<td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td>
<td>Same as James… amount of time is very fragmented. For instance today… I am getting pulled out again for project work. Back later to review things</td>
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<td>mtift</td>
<td>Yeah, same. Lots of client work during the day and more family/travel because it's summer. I expect to have more time come September when my kids head back to college and graduate school.</td>
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<td>Ashraf - DebugAcademy.com and Drupito.com</td>
<td>I’ve been out of commission on all of the things for a few months - got surgery recently to resolve it. May be back in another month or so and hope to do a deeper dive then</td>
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<td>petednz</td>
<td>Same as kathc - work a lot with CiviCRM and am intrigued by how much work might be involved in developing something with similar capabilities purely in drupal - versus tackling the problem of making civicrm an easier solution for drupal users.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Thanks for sharing everyone! Here’s an opportunity to contribute right away for anyone able and interested: <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C08N90UF9TR/p1751051481623859">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C08N90UF9TR/p1751051481623859</a></td>
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<h2>3️⃣ Only about 15% of this #member-platform channel’s participants have joined #crm. This is your call to join #crm and contribute to our most important and substantial dependency!</h2>
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<h2>4️⃣ Only some things make it to Slack. This is your call to subscribe to issue updates for the Member Platform and CRM projects on drupal.org so you stay in the loop and are naturally prompted to contribute to what is happening.</h2>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Member Platform: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/subscribe-mail/member?destination=node/111269">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/subscribe-mail/member?destination=node/111269</a></td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>CRM: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/subscribe-mail/crm?destination=node/137766">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/subscribe-mail/crm?destination=node/137766</a></td>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>I thought about the features of MoP since our last call.I think for the initial release, we should exclude crm features and priorities the membership features.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>For MP 1.0, I see us using CRM for its data model, not its UX or full feature set.</td>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>I feel, it would be too ambitious for now to include CRM in the first release, especially considering its current status.</td>
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<h2>5️⃣ Who is available to start drafting a <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/member/issues/3515926">functional specification for Member Platform</a>?</h2>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>I'm available.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>@beautifulmind Fantastic! Please dive into the Google doc linked in the above issue and let us know how it’s going. Perhaps you’d like to start with one of the child issues and someone else can start on another?</td>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>Thank you @jdleonard I've just added a few. You can edit/format it as you see fit.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>@beautifulmind Could you clarify whether you are blocked seeking feedback?</td>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>Nope. But I sent you dm.</td>
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<td>mtift</td>
<td>@jdleonard I think you've mentioned in a few places that the 1.0 features would match <a href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a>, so using the list of features that <a href="http://Meetup.com">Meetup.com</a> lists seems like it could be helpful here. Is the intention to match the features of the <a href="https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/28677808413197-Organizer-subscription-prices-overview">standard</a> version, thus making the "pro" features out of scope?</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>@mtift It’s really a subset of Meetup Pro features (unlike Meetup, we’re not seeking to gate keep access to anything like email addresses). The functional spec meta issue’s child issues roughly covers the scope. Once we have it in functional spec form, it’ll be easier to consume and understand.</td>
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<h2>6️⃣ Member Platform’s User Experience (UX). For 1.0, we seek to emulate a subset of the functionality of meetup.com, but we haven’t discussed the UX of this. Anyone want to take a stab at some wireframes or sketches to help jump start the discussion? While we will utilize the data model provided by CRM, my assumption is that UI/UX will be Member Platform specific.</h2>
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<td>beautifulmind</td>
<td>Over the course of next week, I will create a few mock ups/HTML page as concepts.</td>
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Project: project/member
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Before proposing or making any changes, READ each of these files and FOLLOW their guidance:
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