[hackerspaces] member management software

[Chad Elish]

I approve!

Cheers!
-Chad
President | HackPGH
Pittsburgh’s First Makerspace
http://www.hackpittsburgh.org <http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/>
> On Jan 18, 2016, at 8:49 PM, michael howard <mik.howard at gmail.com <mailto:mik.howard at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Yes, an additional delay in opening the door, for every day the member dues are late. 
> 
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> 2016-01-14 16:23 GMT-02:00 Chad Elish <chad at hackpittsburgh.org <mailto:chad at hackpittsburgh.org>>:
> Delays as in 1 min per day? 
> 
> Haha… that would be funny.
> 
> Cheers!
> -Chad
> President | HackPGH
> Pittsburgh’s First Makerspace
> http://www.hackpittsburgh.org <http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/>
> 
>> On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:42 PM, michael howard <mik.howard at gmail.com <mailto:mik.howard at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Someone suggested implementing delays in opening doors for people when they are late. 
>> 
>> 
>> 2016-01-06 13:35 GMT-02:00 Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com <mailto:ramgarden at gmail.com>>:
>> We use Seltzer at Melbourne Makerspace.
>> https://github.com/elplatt/seltzer <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 <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 <http://www.prishtinahackerspace.org/> - HACCSY: http://www.prishtinahackerspace.org/haccsy-hackerspace-access-control-and-check-in-system <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 <mailto: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/ <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/ <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 <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.
>> 
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>> shekay at pobox.com <mailto:shekay at pobox.com>
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