New member admission process and member databases

[Seun Ojedeji]

++1 but i did be surprised if this has not be thought about before now (and
was decided to leave it this way). Maybe there is an historical background
in all these, otherwise one would have expected this to have been defacto.

Cheers!

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <
ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:

> On Sep 17 22:20, Rafik Dammak (rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM) wrote:
>
> [Nuno:]
> > > But we need:
> > > a) to have a simplified (yet rigorous) admission process
> >
> > the current process is quite simple, people need to apply through online
> > form which is quite easy.
>
> Having walked a few newbies through the process I think it could still
> use some improvement. In particular the distinction between NCSG and
> the constituencies is confusing to many, and processing the application
> through each is somewhat opaque: it would be nice if applicants could
> check the status of their application online, including things like
> when the next EC meeting is due where it'll be discussed &c.
>
> Which brings me to one technical issue I've been harping about
> to various people privately for some time: I see little point
> in maintaining three distinct member databases, when two
> are (required to be) subsets of the third. It would be much
> easier to maintain just NCSG member database and have
> constituency membership there as an attribute
> (of course still leaving it up to each constituency to
> decide who they accept as their members, they just would
> not need to maintain members' contact info &c separately).
> This would make for an easy workflow for the three ECs,
> one place for members to check their membership details, &c.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>



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