Member Platform (Slack) Meeting on October 16, 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 beyond this thread. Especially if this is your first meeting, please mention a club, association, meetup group, 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>Beautifulmind</td>
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<td>paulmckibben</td>
<td>paulmckibben - Atlanta Drupal Users Group</td>
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<td>bsnodgrass (he/him)</td>
<td>Bob Snodgrass (bsnodgrass) Fox Valley Users Group - I am off today for a wedding, but will try an check back later today</td>
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<td>Eric (sikofitt)</td>
<td>Eric Wheeler (sikofitt) A possible use case has come up for me for a university proprietary research members site. Basically big name companies pay 100k+ to get access to new research that has not been released to the public, including papers and videos and a annual / bi-annual research event. When a company joins (lets say intel for example) anybody that registers with the email address <a href="http://intel.com">intel.com</a> (after verifying) gets complete access. (edited)</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>JD Leonard (jdleonard) - Zilker Neighborhood Association (and more!)</td>
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<td>estevenson</td>
<td>Erica Stevenson (speckles)</td>
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<td>James Shields</td>
<td>James (lostcarpark) - A little late after giving my talk at DrupalCon Vienna...</td>
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<td>Lee Walker (mr_scumbag)</td>
<td>Lee Walker (mr_scumbag)</td>
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<h2>1️⃣ Do you have any topics to propose for the meeting today? Open your own thread in the next numeric order or reply to this thread and I'll do it.</h2>
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<td>James Shields</td>
<td>See 6️⃣</td>
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<h2>2️⃣ Date change for next week's Zoom meeting, at our usual time but now on Tuesday, Oct 21 (I have a conflict with Longhorn PHP Conference)</h2>
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<h2>3️⃣ Getting <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/crm">CRM</a> to beta.</h2>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>@Steve Ayers and I are hoping to lock in the architecture and release CRM Beta 1 by October 27.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Starting with Beta 1, we'd be supporting version-to-version upgrades, making it feasible for early adopters to dogfood for real projects.</td>
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<td>paulmckibben</td>
<td>How can we help? Is there a way to see the beta blockers?</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>This is a call to action to review the architecture / APIs in detail for anything you think shouldn't be!</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Help is needed here:<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/crm/issues/3525356" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3525356: Denote which Address/Phone/Email is a Contact's primary</a></span></td>
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<td>paulmckibben</td>
<td>So does this mean <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/primary_entity_reference">https://www.drupal.org/project/primary_entity_reference</a> also needs to reach beta quality by Oct 27?</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Yes that's fair</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Let's use the "CRM Beta Blocker" tag for issues blocking Beta 1</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?issue_tags=CRM%20Beta%20Blocker">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?issue_tags=CRM%20Beta%20Blocker</a></td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Added[#3543664]</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Let's identify any additional beta blockers!</td>
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<td>Bluegeek9</td>
<td>We probably want a new release of the name project. CRM's composer.json has Name's dev release because of bugs in the current release.</td>
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<h2>4️⃣ CRM + Commerce proof of concept for membership dues</h2>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>I want to get the <a href="https://zna.org/">Zilker Neighborhood Association</a> off of our somewhat nutty Zeffy/Zapier/Xero/Mailchimp integration for dues payments to a simpler and better UX and I plan to use Drupal Commerce with Stripe to facilitate this.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Currently, Zeffy provides offsite payment forms and requires the (expensive) use of Zapier to automate getting data from those submissions elsewhere. We currently use Zapier to create/update Contacts and Invoices in Xero (cloud accounting) and to create/update Contacts in Mailchimp.</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>My minimum short-term vision is to use Drupal Commerce to add on-site (from a UX perspective) Stripe payments and sync Contact information (including tags like "Member 2025") with Mailchimp. (edited)</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Xero supports a feed from Stripe to capture incoming payments (though some additional work will be needed to segregate dues payments from general donations).</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>The implementation needs to support paying dues for multiple individuals.</td>
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<td></td>
<td>It'll be easier to implement this with each individual as a User (even if they don't log in), but if possible I'd like to use CRM Contacts instead.</td>
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<td>Seeking anyone interested in contributing to this real-world use of CRM!</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>My deadline to deploy to production is October 27 🙂</td>
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<td>Lee Walker (mr_scumbag)</td>
<td>No rush then...</td>
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<h2>5️⃣ CRM Events</h2>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>On last week's Zoom call (which I missed), the team discussed creating a lightweight CRM Events module to represent events and afford for registering Contacts for events (as opposed to Users).</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Is anyone volunteering to spearhead requirements definition?</td>
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<td>estevenson</td>
<td>I'd be willing to try, but could you give me more guidance on what you think the end product should look like? Aka - creating a new spec document for CRM Events in the member platform google drive, or something else?</td>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>Yes, that!</td>
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<h2>6️⃣ I ran a BOF on Member Platform at DrupalCon Vienna. Unfortunately, nobody came along. I think there was quite a lot happening at the same time.However, are there any issues that would be good for novice developers? If so, I can try to push them forward during mentored contribution day tomorrow.</h2>
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<td>jdleonard</td>
<td>I regret that I don't have time to prepare any. Anyone else?</td>
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