Movement Hub

Movement Hub keeps your organization's members, its educational events and its research collaborators, each resting on the consent the person gave. It records who agreed to what, sends only the transactional emails a person signed up for, and treats dues as a link to your own payment page: nothing about payments is processed or stored.

Open it from Research in the main navigation, then Movement Hub: counts for members, tiers, events and collaboration, and the events ahead, with Members and Events.

Who can do what

Role	Counts and events	Member records; record RSVPs and attendance	Record members, run events, invite collaborators
Reader	Yes	No	No
Researcher	Yes	Yes	No
Project lead	Yes	Yes	Yes
Editor	Yes	Yes	Yes
Owner	Yes	Yes	Yes

Member records are personal data: every view of a member list or record is in the access log, and the record is in your organization's personal-data export and erasure requests.

A member exists only with consent. When you record a member you say how they agreed (a written form, a web form, email, verbally, at an event sign-up), when, and to what:

Holding a membership record: required for every member;
Emails about events they sign up for: needed before you can record an RSVP for them;
Invitations to collaborate on research: needed before you can invite them to a project.

You can record further consent later (Record further consent on the member's page). Withdraw on a consent applies at once: their RSVPs to events ahead are cancelled when it covered event emails, and their pending or accepted collaboration invitations are revoked when it covered collaboration. Nothing is sent to them afterwards.

Members

Each member has a name, an optional email, an optional tier (your own label, such as "Sustaining") and an optional dues link: an https:// address of your own payment page, shown on their record. Two live members cannot share an email.

Record that they left withdraws every consent, clears their email and dues link, cancels their RSVPs to events ahead and revokes their collaboration access. The record then shows when your organization's retention setting for members (by default: anonymize 30 days after leaving; see Retention) will anonymize or delete it.

Events

An event (workshop, reading group, teach-in, training or another kind) is in person, online or both, with a start, an end and the time zone it is shown in; times are shown with that zone everywhere, including emails. A new event is a draft; Publish and open RSVPs makes it bookable. Cancel event asks for a reason, which is sent to everyone registered.

Researchers, editors and project leads record RSVPs for members who agreed to event emails, up to the event's capacity. After the event starts, mark each RSVP Attended or Absent. Once an hour, the platform marks past events completed.

The emails Movement Hub sends

Only these, one recipient per message, built from the event's own fields (no one can add free text), and only while the person's consent to event emails is in force:

Registered, when their RSVP is recorded;
Updated, when the time or place of an event they are registered for changes;
Cancelled, when the event is cancelled, with the reason;
Reminder, about 24 hours before it starts.

There is no bulk messaging: no newsletters, appeals or announcements to the member list. Each email is sent once, never twice. Reminders are sent once an hour, in the name of the person who last edited the event (or created it). Members without an email are simply not emailed.

Research collaboration

On a member's page, an editor or project lead can invite a member who agreed to collaboration to read or contribute to one project. The invitation link is shown once: send it to them yourself. It expires after 14 days.