Committee Meeting 26-Mar-2026 Technology Report
Report on Technology for the Committee Meeting on 26th March 2026 by Kevin Machin
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Contents
A summary of the progress made since the 26th February 2026 report, along with plans for the next steps.
Achievements
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A new project has been started, with Vanessa's help, for improving the membership data and the way we manage it. There's a discussion document about this. So far we've…
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Removed an unnecessary duplicate
"type"column from the main sheet. - All columns in the main sheet that require dates, now have proper dates in them, rather than assorted text attempting to represent dates.
- Various minor corrections. Full details are in the changes log in the Dropbox folder.
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Removed an unnecessary duplicate
- The new website is now in a sub-domain test.nawg.co.uk. The old links, e.g. 172.236.15.121:9751, should still work for the time being, but the use of port 9751 will eventually be retired.
Next Steps ↑
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Continue with the membership data improvements project. Potential changes include:
- Restructure the way the data are organised, in order to reduce duplication and reduce the need for manual copying.
- Reorganise the data to better model reality, e.g. people can be more than one "type" such as individual, patron, group contact…
- Improve the way we track the "status" of people and groups, without the need for copying/moving across sheets.
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Continue work on the new website, moving towards MVP, at which point we can switch over.
The next significant task for this will be to implement secure (HTTPS) connections.