[hackerspaces] A CRM for Hackerspaces?

[Joshua Pritt]

We also use Seltzer at Melbourne Makerspace (Florida/USA) and created a
RFID lock for the front door that automatically denies access to those that
have missed 3 months of payments.
It has been working rock solid for well over a year now.
https://wiki.melbournemakerspace.org/projects/RFIDDoorLock


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Bob Bownes <bownes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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