[hackerspaces] A CRM for Hackerspaces?

[Bob Bownes]

I can second that. We are using Seltzer at the Center of Gravity and are
mostly happy with it.


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Shirley Hicks <shirley at velochicdesign.com>
wrote:

> One more thing - take a look at Edward Platt’s work on Selzer CRM, which
> he developed for i3 Detroit.
> https://github.com/elplatt/seltzer
>
> — Shirley
>
> On Apr 24, 2016, at 11:25 PM, Shirley Hicks <shirley at velochicdesign.com>
> wrote:
>
> This was the project description I put together for our group. Note that
> we currently use WildApricot for membership management and will be
> switching over to a Wordpress WooCommerce based system this spring, which
> will also integrate with Bob Baddersley’s equiment lockout and RFID access
> card system, and Mediawiki’s WMWP extension for wiki editing access.
>
>
> http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org/wiki/RMM_Information_System/Operations_Description
> http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org/wiki/RMM_Information_System
> http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org/wiki/Project:RMM_Information_System
>
> — Shirley Hicks
> Red ountain Makers
>
> On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Altin Ukshini <altin.ukshini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've started working on a class assignment where for the following couple
> of months I'll be developing a CRM for managing Hackerspaces - that's what
> I chose to do to complete that assignment.
>
> My friends and I run Prishtina Hackerspace (a hackerspace in Kosovo), and
> since the beginning of it we always struggled finding the best solution to
> manage members, payments, keys, etc. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel,
> we tried many different software but I think we need a better solutions for
> this. I think that many hackerspaces face the same problem when dealing
> with 30+ members. I know we all have different structures, but we could
> maybe boil down to something common and useful for all of us.
>
> In order for this CRM to be better than the existing solutions, I need
> your help to let me know what do you struggle with, and what would you need
> to have in such application?
>
> So far this is what I came up with (call them modules or simply
> functionalities):
> - Membership
> -- Members
> -- Membership Plans
> -- Mentors
>
> - Reports
> -- Membership reports
> -- Expenses reports
> -- Space Frequentation (part of door access control and checkin system)
>
> - Finances
> -- Transactions (income and expenses)
> -- Billing (charge members / run billing)
> -- Online Payment (Pay membership dues with Stripe/Paypal)
>
> - Access Control
> -- Keys
> -- RFID Cards
> -- Alarm Pins
> -- Door access Control and Checkin System (API for Raspberry pi/Arduino
> based solution)
>
> One of the most important features of this CRM will be localization,
> themes, easily manageable settings, and of course modularity (so that
> anyone could write their own modules for it),
>
> Btw, I plan to use Laravel 5.2.
>
> Let's hope this will be helpful for your hackerspaces, just as it'll be
> for our needs at Prishtina Hackerspace.
> I plan to maintain it for some couple of years maybe, and as well try to
> document it well so that anyone can understand how it works (but first I'll
> have to build it).
>
> ...afterall it's just my class assignment! :D
>
> ​Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Best,
> Altin
> ​
>
> __
>
> *Altin Ukshini*
> Prishtina Hackerspace
> Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK)
>
> +386 (0) 49 199 992 | altinukshini.wordpress.com
>
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