Hello from HeatSync Labs!<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dues payments come in through PayPal, recurring checks, and to a lesser extent Dwolla and cash/Square. We strongly encourage recurring payments.</span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Money is tracked by the Treasurer (a human) who records things in QuickBooks; we also have a CPA.</span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Our delinquency reports are severely lacking and I'm in the process of auditing for the first time in months.</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">New members are sent an email with links and given an in-person training; our website and its link to Google Groups is emphasized repeatedly.</span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Members don't automatically get card access, but when they do they are manually added to the RFID door lock system (23b's Open Access Control) via SSH/serial.</span></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Login credentials for Mediawiki are available freely now that we installed security question plugins, and our Wordpress blog has been relatively lacking in participation but we have given out logins.</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">----------</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I agree there is a need for The Ultimate Hackerspace Software however our own effort has stalled (</span><a href="https://github.com/hackerspacemanagement/">https://github.com/hackerspacemanagement/</a>) -- the objectives you mentioned are on my todo list. I've got an incredibly hackish version of the OAC software which is network-enabled as a first step towards synchronizing.(<a href="https://github.com/zyphlar/Open_Access_Control_Ethernet">https://github.com/zyphlar/Open_Access_Control_Ethernet</a>) We also have written Ruby serial code to give a basic locking/unlocking/status API to the space since we use maglocks. (<a href="https://github.com/zyphlar/Open-Source-Access-Control---Web-Interface">https://github.com/zyphlar/Open-Source-Access-Control---Web-Interface</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd love nothing more than to get some simple, pop-in code for the OAC hardware for user account syncing, plus a simple membership management software (delinquency, etc.) If you've got energy to do it, feel free to contact me offlist.</div>