<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here's what Dallas Makerspace is using:</span><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="http://dallasmakerspace.org/calendar">Calendar</a>: <a href="https://github.com/pawl/CalendarAdmin" target="_blank">https://github.com/pawl/CalendarAdmin</a> + Google Calendar + Eventbrite (for ticketed events) + Meetup.com</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Voting: <a href="https://github.com/Dallas-Makerspace/Voting" target="_blank">https://github.com/Dallas-Makerspace/Voting</a> (only used for elections)<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Access control: <a href="https://github.com/pawl/Chinese-RFID-Access-Control-Library" target="_blank">https://github.com/pawl/Chinese-RFID-Access-Control-Library</a> + <a href="https://github.com/pawl/MakerManager" target="_blank">https://github.com/pawl/MakerManager</a><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Accounting: Quickbooks</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Mailing List: Google Groups</li><li style="margin-left:15px">User accounts: OpenLDAP<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Wiki: MediaWiki</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">To-do List: <a href="http://trello.com/">trello.com</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Billing/Payment Processing: <a href="http://www.whmcs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.whmcs.com/</a> (mostly because it allows tracking existing paypal recurring payments, it also has "hooks" that can be used to automatically deactivate RFID badges if they don't pay)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Inventory (not used as much as we'd like): <a href="https://github.com/Dallas-Makerspace/Inventory" target="_blank">https://github.com/Dallas-Makerspace/Inventory</a> / <a href="https://github.com/Dallas-Makerspace/DMSSimpleInventory" target="_blank">https://github.com/Dallas-Makerspace/DMSSimpleInventory</a></li>
</ul><div>Our needs? Our new calendar management app needs more features, like adding new events to eventbrite and <a href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> automatically (to reach a wider audience): <a href="https://github.com/pawl/CalendarAdmin" target="_blank">https://github.com/pawl/CalendarAdmin</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I also have some some access control systems I can give away if someone wants to help tackle some of the TODOs on this project: <a href="https://github.com/pawl/Chinese-RFID-Access-Control-Library" target="_blank">https://github.com/pawl/Chinese-RFID-Access-Control-Library</a></div>
<div><br></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The relevant running a hackerspace post: <a href="http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/57715747994/implementing-a-process-that-works-well-for-another">http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/57715747994/implementing-a-process-that-works-well-for-another</a></font></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Shirley Hicks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" target="_blank">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Ed, there are a few people at our space who'd be interested in this discussion as we're looking at developing a system including Seltzer for our own use. We're currently gearing up using paper, spreadsheets, lots of forms and GNUCash. <div>
<br></div><div>By chance have you talked to the Space Federation (umbrella organization in which not a few makers spaces are taking part) folks out of Milwaukee? (<a href="http://schoolfactory.org/spacefed" target="_blank">http://schoolfactory.org/spacefed</a>) I think that they're thinking the same thing long term.</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- Shirley Hicks</div><div>Red Mountain Makers</div><div>Birmingham, AL</div><div><br></div></font></span><div><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Sep 2, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Edward L Platt <<a href="mailto:ed@elplatt.com" target="_blank">ed@elplatt.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>There are a good number of hackerspace management apps out there (including Seltzer, which I maintain). Different ones are good for different things, and it seems like there's not one that works well for everyone. Seltzer is at a point where it's useful, but I'm not sure whether it makes more sense to continue adding features, move to another project, or start a new one.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My goal is to see more collaboration between spaces on building a smaller number of more mature tools. If you're interested in helping to make this happen, mail me off list and I'll include you in the discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ed</div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Edward L. Platt<div><a href="http://elplatt.com/" target="_blank">http://elplatt.com</a></div><div><a href="http://civic.mit.edu/users/elplatt" target="_blank">http://civic.mit.edu/users/elplatt</a></div>
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