Infrastructure

With at least a rudimentary charter now in place, I'm going to be concentrating next on upgrading the website infrastructure. There are two major things to get accomplished:

• The voting framework needs to be set up and tweaked to reflect the voting systems we've decided on.
• The membership system needs to be overhauled; Especially, I need to figure out how to store payment details and then confer higher membership privileges based on that.

The voting system shouldn't be too hard to implement, but the membership part is a little more complicated; Specifically, since I don't really have the means to store credit card information securely yet, I'll have to set up an interface with a payment gateway that can keep people's details safely. Apart from that, though, we should have at least feature voting up before too long.

Also, the timing of these upgrades coincides with the latest release of the CMS I'm using (Drupal 7), so I'll probably take the opportunity to upgrade that as well, and roll all the changes out as one major overhaul. Hopefully should have something ready in the next couple of months. In the meantime the update schedule for articles might be a little erratic, so please bear with me!