<div dir="ltr">Hi from Kansas. We are currently through Phase 1 and halfway through Phase 2 on your list. For Phase 1 we are using <a href="http://www.wildapricot.com/">WildApricot </a>which is a webbased member management system that costs $50/month. Our space's membership costs $10/month and it only took a couple months for WildApricot to pay for itself by offering easy self-management of membership to our community. For Phase 2, see <a href="http://makeict.org/wiki/index.php/Electronic_Door_Entry">this post</a> on our wiki, which includes a link to the software in development via bitbucket. Phase 3 is also planned in the future and it shouldn't be too hard to implement once Phase 2 is complete. Wild Apricot has an API that we plan to connect to our access control system for automated updating of who has access to what at our space.<div>
<br></div><div>Jens from MakeICT</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Edward L Platt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed@elplatt.com" target="_blank">ed@elplatt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi Shirley,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Glad to see you posting about this. Space management is still a big time sink, and by collaborating on solutions we can make things a lot easier.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you have any questions about Seltzer, feel free to email me or the dev list!</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd love to see the community come together on a solution, whether it's Seltzer or something else.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Happy hacking,<br>
-Ed</p>
<p dir="ltr">This message sent from my phone... through space!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jul 23, 2014 10:27 AM, "Shirley Hicks" <<a href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" target="_blank">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Good morning all,<br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>I strongly suspect this question has been asked before (including by me!), but I'm not finding it easily.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our 15-month old hacker group is preparing to step away from the spreadsheets with which we are managing our space and start setting up (in phases) a space information system.</div><div>We will have a team of eight working on this project, with information system experience ranging from seasoned system warrior to recently graduated IS newbie.</div>
<div>Project information page can be seen at: <a href="http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org/wiki/RMM_Information_System" target="_blank">http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org/wiki/RMM_Information_System</a></div><div><br></div>
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We'd like to minimize the work required (who doesn't!) and are looking for any available package recommendations for the following functions:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Phase 1</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Membership management - yes, we are evaluating i3 Detroit's Seltzer CRM.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Equipment inventory.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Technical library inventory & (possibly) sign-in/sign-out.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Phase 2</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Space access control by pass card.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Space booking control (just see who's using what room for classes and meetings when).</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Phase 3</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Equipment access control by pass card.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Class and materials sign-up/purchase.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is within the US context, and within US legal governance with regards to information privacy and electronic purchases/transactions.</div><div>Thanks in advance for any recommendations and comments regarding your experiences with different packages. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Shirley Hicks</div><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
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