[hackerspaces] member management software

[Joshua Pritt]

We use Seltzer at Melbourne Makerspace.
https://github.com/elplatt/seltzer

And we made our own RFID door lock that automatically denies access to
those who haven't paid their dues in 3 months.
https://wiki.melbournemakerspace.org/projects/RFIDDoorLock

Two other hackerspaces have already duplicated or in the process of
duplicating our RFID door lock.
Prishtina Hackerspace in Kosovo http://www.prishtinahackerspace.org -
HACCSY:
http://www.prishtinahackerspace.org/haccsy-hackerspace-access-control-and-check-in-system
and another one has emailed me with questions.


On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> What do people use for member management? I'm looking for open source
> projects.
>
> Requirements and nice to haves off the top of my head
>
> * Open source license
> * Easy to contribute too
> * Community/dev culture that scores well on being able to run sprints
> according to OpenHatch's event handbook, <http://opensource-events.com/>
> * Written in a language that our active technical members use (python, go)
> * Easily adaptable to our space member logic (membership tier, equipment
> permissions, &c.)
> * Service API that provides enough member data so that we can use it with
> our RFID stuff
> * SSO
> * Approachable deployment
>
> I've done some googling and found a few. One that jumped out at me is
> Tendenci, <https://www.tendenci.com/>.
> * It has a service API, yay. It uses django tastypie which is a little meh
> compared to django rest framework because the latter has more active
> development and support from the community. On the other hand, I use
> tastypie at work and have experience with it.
> * Their repo, <https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci>, and it has a lot of
> recent activity.
> * I haven't looked for evidence for contributor friendliness yet. Looking
> at the graph on github shows mainly the employees of the company. There are
> advantages/disadvantages for that. Risks: It might become abandonware. It
> might not be easy to contribute to. Benefits: Active development, option
> for hosting, &c.
> * I haven't tested the ease of deployment.
> * The code base is a bit large, which may be a code smell.
> * It looks like they've architected the project so that it is pluginable.
> This might mean it is easy to adopt to our rules. I haven't dived in to
> verify this.
>
>
> --
> shekay at pobox.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20160106/02b5688a/attachment.html>