The new and improved my.fsf.org

Dear LWN,

As the very first full-time web developer for the FSF, I was
happy to see my first major project launch: The new and improved
[my.fsf.org][1]. The new look of the site marks the completion of
migration from a legacy system to [CiviCRM][2], an actively
maintained constituent relationship management system, which we
run on top of [Drupal][3]. This launch was a team project. The
improved look and feel of the membership system was aided by the
effort of former outreach and communications coordinator William
Theaker, whose knowledge of CiviCRM proved invaluable during
development. System administrators Lisa Maginnis and Stephen
Mahood have done lots of hard work to update and improve our
hardware and system architecture to handle the traffic we've been
receiving.

CiviCRM is the project that satisfied the requirements for a free
software fundraising system on the [High Priority Projects][4]
list, and was officially [endorsed by the FSF][5] in 2010.  We
love CiviCRM because it is more efficient and featureful than our
in-house solution was, it uses the Affero General Public License,
our contributions can benefit all of the organizations that use
it, and likewise, we can benefit from the contributions of
others. We use CiviCRM for managing memberships and for all of
our nonmember donations, as well.

Our migration to CiviCRM changes how our membership system
works. For instance, we have retired the old referral system. In
the future, we will implement a new referral system, but for now,
when creating a new membership, you will be able to fill out
an "in honor of" section with referral information. We have also
retired the member number system. Member badges now display the
date you became an FSF member, rather than a unique ID number. If
the old member button is embedded on your Web site, please update
your site with the new HTML snippet displayed on your [member
benefits page][6]. Potential new members will be interested to
know that, because it is 2015, there is no longer an eight
character limit on usernames! And of course, member benefits
remain the same, including access to our XMPP (Jabber) server,
email forwarding addresses, a 20% discount at the [shop][7], and
gratis registration for our annual [LibrePlanet][8]
conference. If your membership is expired, you can renew via [the
same URL as before][9].

The new [member dashboard][10] presents some information that
wasn't previously available, such as your FSF event registrations
and attendance, and your [personal campaign pages][11]. It's also
possible to tweak more of your account information, such as your
email format preference (plain text or HTML). Now that our basic
migration to CiviCRM is complete, we will be adding new features
to the site based upon CiviCRM's capabilities.

We know that this migration hasn't been entirely smooth
sailing. We thank you for your continued patience as we deal with
migration-related issues. Now that some of the dust has settled,
we hope that you enjoy the new [my.fsf.org][1]! If you haven't
yet, please log in and try it out. If you have any questions
about your membership, please contact <membership@fsf.org>.

Dave Thompson
Web Developer

[1]: https://my.fsf.org
[2]: https://civicrm.org
[3]: https://drupal.org
[4]: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
[5]: https://www.fsf.org/news/nonprofit-fundraising-civicrm
[6]: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/member-dashboard/benefits
[7]: https://shop.fsf.org
[8]: https://libreplanet.org/2015
[9]: https://my.fsf.org/renew
[10]: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/member-dashboard
[11]: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/personal-fundraising

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