Membership Manager Pro: A bikeshedding thread

This is pretty rare. A thread that is totally okay to bikeshed to death!

With the new membership system going live(ish) recently, we need your help!

Our old membership system was called Membership Manager Pro, was full of dodgy code, was closed source, and was not licensed for upgrades (which were very infrequent anyway). Most of the features we needed were hacked on by a couple of us, and it wasn’t really making the code any better.

So we redid it. It’s all in a private GitHub repo for now (ask us for access), but pretty soon absolutely none of the legacy code will remain, and we can open it up!

This is where you come in*. We need a new name. Something a little snappier than “Membership Manager Pro”. Something that can be abbreviated just as easily, but doesn’t sound like it came out of an entry-level marketing class.

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.* We also need more people with code ability to help us fill in the gaps - there is lots to be done. See the “Get Involved” page in MMP for more info.

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Membership Decelerater? Then you “let the Doctor handle it”

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mbp:~ luke$ grep member /usr/share/dict/words
Camembert
dismember
dismembered
dismemberer
dismemberment
disremember
foreremembered
immember
irrememberable
member
membered
memberless
membership
misremember
nondismemberment
nonmember
nonmembership
partimembered
recomember
remember
rememberability
rememberable
rememberably
rememberer
semimember
submember
undismembered
unmember
unremember
unrememberable
unremembered
unremembering

Personally I like Camembert. Or maybe Remember since this a rewrite?

Cat Herder Pro
Bikeshederer Milllenium Edition

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Member(ship) Control (Panel | Portal | Platform)

– End of Line

The Whip
or
Member Whipper Snapper

Ship Portal

isn’t the member part of membership redundant :slight_smile:

Artemis
Heart of Gold
Membersaurus

And I do actually like @jon’s suggestion:

But it’s so much more than just a membership manager:
Farmville?

Eureka!

Master control program (MCP) from tron

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Obviously it should be called VCR

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@funvill that is what I was playing off.

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@lukecyca I really like Remember. Maybe something like Re:Member?

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Master Cat Programmer

Messhall Manager Lite

Gold Member?

CP/M – Control Program for Memberships

+1

CP/M Control Program for Membership

How about
TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident)

Seems a pretty natural for tracking membership,

HCF ?

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Nomos

In greek mythology it is the personified spirit of law. This system in a way acts as the rule set for how things are governed, via membership levels and privileges (laser training, etc).

  • It’s easy to pronounce
  • it’s not an acronym
  • ???
  • profit

Nomos - our membership software.

Alfred “&$^@ I forgot my pin”
Frank “Just login to Nomos and reset it ffs”
Jane “Why don’t all the hackspaces use Nomos? It’s so awesome”
George “WTF is Nomos”
Thomas “Nomos - our membership software. Just login and bask in it’s glory: http://membership.vanhack.ca

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I like that name

Brock Pedersen