Space Federation is hosting a hackathon to continue work on the ultimate system we all imagine (OSS, OSH) and it looks like these existing efforts might move it forward.<div><br></div><div>We started in April with an unconference to develop requirements and now 12-aug is a hackathon to build.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/doorhacks">http://bit.ly/doorhacks</a> for the G+ event</div><div><a href="http://atrium.schoolfactory.org/spacefed/accesshacks">http://atrium.schoolfactory.org/spacefed/accesshacks</a> to get background and see what we came up with in April.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope you can join us! We are hosting a 3d printing meetup same day (at Bucketworks in Milwaukee, which has a system similar to i3 as described) so it should be a fun day!</div><div><br></div><div>A lot of new and growing spaces could really use a kit like this. <span></span></div>
<div><br>On Thursday, August 9, 2012, Will Bradley wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello from HeatSync Labs!<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I agree there is a need for The Ultimate Hackerspace Software however our own effort has stalled (</span><a href="https://github.com/hackerspacemanagement/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
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