[Meta] Project history

An interim place to keep track of the project's history so it isn't sitting on the project page.

2025-03-10
New logo drafted

2025-02-27
High-level definition of MVP (Member Platform 1.0) drafted on Zoom meeting.

2025-02-11
The project took over the Drupal.org project namespace "member", which previously hosted a Drupal 5/6 module "Membership list" maintained by pwolanin providing "fairly minimal functionality for maintaining a membership list". We thank him for ceding the namespace for the current project!

The project's very temporary working title "Membership Organization Platform" (MOP) yielded in favor of the simpler name "Member Platform".

2025-02-06
The first 24 hour Slack meeting for the project was held via Zoom.

2025-01-30
The second meeting for the project was held via Zoom. The first draft of the project's mission, vision, and principles was refined.

2025-01-16
The first meeting for the project was held via Zoom.

2024-10-09
Inspired by his local not-for-profit neighborhood association's needs and seeking to help many other organizations rather than building yet another bespoke system, JD gave a presentation to the Austin Neighborhoods Council (ANC)'s Executive Committee. ANC is an umbrella nonprofit organization counting over 50 Austin, Texas neighborhood associations as members. Having validated an unmet need in one small corner of the world, JD created a Slack channel initiating this project for the global Drupal community.