[H-GEN] Memberhip database - Was: My nomination for President

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:14:17 +1000 Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com> wrote:

> On 2009-08-13, Russell Stuart wrote:
> 
> > Secretary       outstanding correspondence from last meeting,
> >                 correspondence received, correspondence sent,
> >                 date PO Box last checked, date he sent minutes 
> >                 from last meeting to general, names of new
> >                 financial members (which have been added to a 
> >                 wiki page of all financial members).
> 
> This is an administrative detail, but I'm not at all in favour
> of a wiki page for recording membership.  Back in the mists of
> time, somebody invented databases and that's what we should use
> for this data -- from there it is easy to expose suitable data
> to the website.
> 
> I regard the establishment of a proper membership database as a
> priority and would be prepared to work on that if it remains
> vapourware by the time of the AGM.

The library software I mentioned in my earlier reply included a
membership database, as it is a necessary part of library software to
know who the members are so the software knows who is allowed to bother
the librarian with loan requests.

Not saying that what I have is ready to go, I have not worked on that
for some time and some of the bits may have rotted.  Certainly I have
discussed the requirements with past HUMBUG librarians, and
secretaries, as well as being one myself.  Should be something
salvageable from what I have done.
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