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Hello all,<br>
<br>
While we are continuing to make improvements to our membership
database, I know one request that has come up has been for people to
determine their membership status. This was integrated in the
previous PLUG web site, but has not yet been done on the current <i>Drupal</i>
powered web site.<br>
<br>
While not a complete (or elegant) solution, I have quickly coded up
a simple interface to send your PLUG membership details to you by
email. Enter your email address at <b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.plug.org.au/cgi-bin/membership_email_send.cgi">http://www.plug.org.au/cgi-bin/membership_email_send.cgi</a></b>
and you should get an email in a few minutes with the details that
PLUG has on you - including if your membership is active or expired.
If you have changed email address, or have any of the details to
update, please let committee know and we'll update.<br>
<br>
As a longer term solution, Tim White and Daniel Harmsworth have
started a project which (thus far) is called "<i>User Group
Membership Manager</i>" to put together a solution to handle
membership tasks that could be used by any user group - the mailing
list is at <b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/ugmm">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/ugmm</a></b> if
you'd like to join in the discussions. It's very early days (the
mailing list was created on Monday), so requirements and thoughts
are still being thrashed out there; if you're a member of a separate
group then perhaps you may have some insights on what data you need
to capture and manage for members. This is not focused solely on <i>Linux</i>
User Groups (LUGs), but any type of User Group. <b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.plug.org.au/projects/ugmm/">http://www.plug.org.au/projects/ugmm/</a></b>
is a work in progress for this effort (<i>its pretty empty right now
as I made the page 20 seconds ago!</i>).<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
James<br>
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