I was actually thinking about this problem last week and did some research...

* Tendenci - Free & open source, actively maintained, runs on python and has additional features like event management, newsletters, and photo galleries.

* Servicebot - Just does subscriptions, also free & open source (or you can pay for them to host it), runs on nodejs (the clear popular favorite of sudoers), actively maintained

* Killbill - FOSS, actively maintained, however runs on java and mysql

I might play around with a local instance of Tendenci as I'm curious about it generally. Mebbe someone with nodejs foo could try out Servicebot?

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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Seth Columbia <columbiasw1@gmail.com> wrote:

Looking at alternatives we quickly run into the question. What's a reasonable amount to pay for this service? And what do we value. It seems like a cloud based service is potentially best in terms of convenience. 

I get the sense a free alternative is preferred but it would have to be convenient. It would seem we have payed a lot of money for our current free services when we add up profit not made due toacking features and function so. 

Is there any budget? It seems that ~50 a month opens us up to a pretty wide spread of decent programs. 

There are free alternatives however. 

It appears that every option has some learning curve so I'm trying to keep long term vision alive alongside current restraints. 

Just checking in,

Seth

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:38 PM Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

It might be time to look for alternatives to the sudo-humans software that both CCL and sudo room depend on for signing up and tracking members. Sudo-humans is still missing some very basic must-have features (like notifying anyone that someone's credit card is bouncing, or that a new member signed up!), and  the code seems fairly unmaintainable now that the initial author has left...

I've seen both CiviCRM and Odoo suggested as well-developed and well-maintained Open Source solutions. Several of the hackerspaces in the Nation of Makers network seemed to be switching towards Odoo, for example. 

Does anyone have experience with CiviCRM, or Oboo, or want to help us explore our best options? Please pitch in, and help us decide! It would be great if CCL and Sudo could move together to a new platform.

Here's some resources that may be useful:

Nation of Makers: Software Needs Assessment - mentions CiviCRM, Odoo, Cobot, SeltzerCRM, sudo humans, and more

Infrastructure and Operations Value Matrix - compares features across various Odoo plugins, CiciCRM, and a few more

Patrik

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