[pmwiki-users] Newsletter management

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:55:53PM +0200, kjettil wrote:
> The situation is probably rather typical of many small not-for-profit 
> associations (cf. Stirling's club):
> The association needs a web site, to communicate with its members and to 
> solicit new members.
> 
> PmWiki is an excellent solution to build in such cases. You may get a 
> site, with wiki facilities (collaboration and distributed editing), 
> blog, calendar, simple forum, guestbook and "static page" facilities 
> (and much more) and with a nice skin developed for it, up and running 
> within days, if not hours.
> 
> One of the solutions so far missing (as recipe) is membership 
> management, including newsletter management.  For a site I'm in my spare 
> time setting up for a small riding club, I'd need such a solution.

Hmm, I hadn't really seen "membership management" needs
expressed quite as succinctly and elegantly as this.  Well put.

I'll have to think about it all a bit more.  This really
points out how membership management ties directly with
PmWiki goals, whereas I had missed this particular connection
before.  It also shows why we really ought to have a good
comprehensive membership management system that integrates 
well with PmWiki; either as part of the core or as a
well-maintained recipe that is maintained along with the core.

Thanks,

Pm