[hackerspaces] A CRM for Hackerspaces?

[Bob Bownes]

Yup. Our Seltzer system drives our RFID system as well. Very handy. Will be
better when every machine has an RFID reader. :)




On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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