[sudo-discuss] [CCLmembers] looking for alternative to sudo humans for membership management

[Seth Columbia]

Truth be told I have no experience with the true ease of use of these
things and  am really just reading reviews. So I'll keep doing that. Thanks
for narrowing the list Jenny

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:52 PM Adam <me at adammunich.com> wrote:

> I have used cozy.co for managing rentals in the past, but if you can look
> past all the rental-property jargon it's actually really nice for
> processing arbitrary monthly payments.
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> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I was actually thinking about this problem last week and did some
>> research...
>> * Tendenci <https://www.tendenci.com/> - Free & open source, actively
>> maintained <https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci>, runs on python
>> <https://tendenci.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/installation.html#required-dependencies>
>> and has additional features like event management, newsletters, and photo
>> galleries.
>> * Servicebot <https://servicebot.io/> - 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
>> <https://github.com/service-bot/servicebot>
>> * Killbill <http://killbill.io/> - FOSS, actively maintained
>> <https://github.com/killbill/killbill>, 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 at 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 at 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 <https://github.com/sudoroom/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 <https://civicrm.org/>and Odoo
>>>> <https://github.com/odoo/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
>>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O1-3JMWx6Pny9rIGzmIAbhF2YJiVL94ppaUOMWBgNhA/edit?usp=sharing> -
>>>> mentions CiviCRM, Odoo, Cobot, SeltzerCRM, sudo humans, and more
>>>>
>>>> Infrastructure and Operations Value Matrix
>>>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2kZ2usa2HVeL3TwfenGpNCkskGR3kTKArPYpfg8jyw/edit?usp=sharing> -
>>>> compares features across various Odoo plugins, CiciCRM, and a few more
>>>>
>>>>
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