[hackerspaces] A CRM for Hackerspaces?

[Silence Dogood]

My seltzer system is considering running for president... but I think his
views will probably get him into trouble.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Bob Bownes <bownes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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