[NCSG-EC] [NCSG Techteam] Wapix follow up

Sun Jul 14 19:16:10 EEST 2019

rfi at nscg.is sounds good

On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 22:06, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix via NCSG-EC <
ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:

> Hi Caleb
>
> The purpose of the email account is to be used back and forth when further
> information is required from applicants (by Maryam our staff support) - in
> that sense I don't think a "no reply" email would be ideal. Each email is
> then logged into the backend as an activity for the member in question,
> which allows in turn EC members to track this communication flow from a
> front end.
>
> Tapani, would you be able to create that email? I could use input from
> other EC members as for its label - probably something like membership@
> or even rfi@
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 5:16 AM Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <
> muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My general thoughts would be to have an email ( *no-reply at members.ncsg.is
>> <no-reply at members.ncsg.is>* )and do an auto-forwarding from that email
>> to a mailing list containing all the email that needs to receive
>> notification. It makes it cleaner and flexible to NCSG to add another email
>> in the future from the mailing list.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:20 AM Tapani Tarvainen via Techteam <
>> techteam at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds good to me. As for where the email account should be, my
>>> preference
>>> would be the CiviCRM host itself (members.ncsg.is), it has all necessary
>>> software (postfix, dovecot) already installed, creating a new account
>>> and enabling incoming mail for it should be pretty trivial.
>>>
>>> Of course you could also use Google or whatever, but then you'd be
>>> creating an unnecessary dependency on them (and some might not like
>>> the idea of Google reading all these messages either).
>>>
>>> Tapani
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:33:45AM -0400, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix (
>>> rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com) wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi all
>>> >
>>> > Got the following answer from Josh
>>> >
>>> > Let me know what you think of it
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> >
>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> > From: Josh Porter <josh at wapix.co>
>>> > Date: Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 8:14 PM
>>> > Subject: Re: NCSG - follow up on workplan
>>> > To: Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix <rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi, Raphael.
>>> >
>>> > Circling back on this one. It sounds like the suggested implementation
>>> of
>>> > setting up a dedicated email account that staff can CC or BCC and
>>> having
>>> > all emails from that account logged in CiviCRM as activities is the
>>> most
>>> > straightforward and cheapest option here. If you set can set up a
>>> dedicated
>>> > email account that is IMAP/POP3 compatible, we can do the rest. It
>>> would
>>> > take about 4 development hours to complete. You have 6 hours left on
>>> your
>>> > block so it should fit inside your remaining hours. Let me know how
>>> > you would like to proceed.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Sincerely,
>>> > Joshua Porter
>>> > Managing Director
>>> >
>>> > Wanna Pixel, Inc.
>>> > 9888 W Belleview Ave #5043, Denver, CO 80123 US
>>> > https://wapix.co/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 7:00 PM, Josh Porter josh at wapix.co wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Hi, Raphael,
>>> > >
>>> > > Good to hear from you! Let me do some evaluation with the team and
>>> see
>>> > > what we can offer. Probably the simplest setup will be to have a
>>> dedicated
>>> > > email address just for this purpose, and then any message you want
>>> logged
>>> > > in CiviCRM you would CC or BCC to this dedicated address. If the
>>> recipient
>>> > > address of the copied email matches a contact in the system, the
>>> email
>>> > > would then be copied as an activity on that contact record.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Sincerely,
>>> > > Joshua Porter
>>> > > Managing Director
>>> > >
>>> > > Wanna Pixel, Inc.
>>> > > 9888 W Belleview Ave #5043, Denver, CO 80123 US
>>> > > https://wapix.co/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 7:29 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix
>>> > > rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >   Dear Josh
>>> > >
>>> > > I hope this email finds you well.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thank you for the reminder - it seems to be working as intended.
>>> > >
>>> > > As I have told you before we held our NCSG in-person team meeting
>>> this
>>> > > week. We decided we would like to go ahead and use the remaining
>>> > > development time on our issue #3.
>>> > >
>>> > > Our last exchange on that can be found in your email to me from May
>>> 9.
>>> > >
>>> > > Now, as you know, we have a rather limited budget and we
>>> unfortunately
>>> > > cannot afford any further development blocks at this point.
>>> > >
>>> > > I would thus like to reopen the discussion on the solution to issue
>>> #3 and
>>> > > see what could be achieved with our remaining hours.
>>> > >
>>> > > As I currently understand it, we are looking at a way for our
>>> requests to
>>> > > members to show up on their own somewhere in the backend, and
>>> eventually to
>>> > > have this bit of the backend show in the frontend. One of our
>>> members had
>>> > > suggested the use of a dedicated email rather than trying to embed
>>> > > something with Maryam's (with whom you have been in contact re our
>>> problems
>>> > > during our elections) own email inbox.
>>> > >
>>> > > Let me know what can be done on your side.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thank you,
>>> > >
>>> > > Have a nice day,
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:45 PM Josh Porter <josh at wapix.co> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi, Raphael,
>>> > >
>>> > > Sounds good. We can take it live. It should send the first email
>>> within 24
>>> > > hours of setup. Then every two weeks after that.
>>> > >
>>> > > I'll get it on the schedule.
>>> > >
>>> > > Sincerely,
>>> > > Joshua Porter
>>> > > Managing Director
>>> > >
>>> > > Wanna Pixel, Inc.
>>> > > 9888 W Belleview Ave #5043, Denver, CO 80123 US
>>> > > https://wapix.co/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 8:38 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix
>>> > > rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi Josh,
>>> > >
>>> > > Looks fine thanks! You can take it live. Would it send the first
>>> email
>>> > > right away? Because for sure there are unreviewed applications haha.
>>> Would
>>> > > be a good way to test it live
>>> > >
>>> > > Best,
>>> > >
>>> > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:00 PM Josh Porter <josh at wapix.co> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi, Raphael,
>>> > >
>>> > > The  reminder email is ready for your review.
>>> > >
>>> > > This image shows the reminder email if multiple reviewers have
>>> pending
>>> > > membership applications to review.
>>> > > http://cl.ly/7288c134005c
>>> > >
>>> > > This image shows the reminder email if a single reviewer has pending
>>> > > membership applications to review.
>>> > > http://cl.ly/3b5591e75e1b
>>> > >
>>> > > Let me know if anything needs to be adjusted. Otherwise, we can take
>>> this
>>> > > live at your convenience.
>>> > >
>>> > > All the best!
>>> > >
>>> > > Sincerely,
>>> > > Joshua Porter
>>> > > Managing Director
>>> > >
>>> > > Wanna Pixel, Inc.
>>> > > 9888 W Belleview Ave #5043, Denver, CO 80123 US
>>> > > https://wapix.co/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 2:00 PM, Josh Porter josh at wapix.co wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi, Raphael,
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks for checking in! The reminder has been implemented on the
>>> staging
>>> > > site and is undergoing testing. I should have something ready for
>>> you to
>>> > > review in the next day or two.
>>> > >
>>> > > All the best!
>>> > >
>>> > > Sincerely,
>>> > > Joshua Porter
>>> > > Managing Director
>>> > >
>>> > > Wanna Pixel, Inc.
>>> > > 9888 W Belleview Ave #5043, Denver, CO 80123 US
>>> > > https://wapix.co/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 8:50 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix
>>> > > rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi Josh
>>> > >
>>> > > I'd just like to know how things are coming along re the automated
>>> reminder
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks!
>>> > >
>>> > > Raphael
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>>
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