The Drupal association has been using CiviCRM for a couple of years now. As part of the redesign effort we upgraded the Drupal association site to Drupal 6 and CiviCRM 2.1.

With the help from the Donald Lobo of the CiviCRM team and David Strauss we now have automatic membership renewal notices working in CiviCRM 2.1. With previous versions we had technical difficulties with membership renewal notices and would send renewal reminders out in batches.

To date the Drupal association has 984 paid individual and organizational members. As of this morning 631 of those memberships were paid up to date. We just sent reminder notices to the rest. Going forward all members will be notified in advance that their membership is expiring.