[hackerspaces] Member and event management systems

Matthew "mirage335" Hines spamfreemirage335 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 03:56:37 CEST 2016


National Organization of Makers is the name increasingly adopted by the
large group of Makerspace leaders continuing to collaborate following
the recent White House sponsored meeting, as well as a possible future
conference with a similar agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Didwk6Td7M

On 09/09/16 09:48 PM, Edward L Platt wrote:
> What is the National Organization of Makers?
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com
> <mailto:ramgarden at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Melbourne Makerspace has been using the open source Seltzer (built
>     at another hackerspace!) specifically for running 'spaces with
>     little to no training and volunteer time.
>     I am currently trying to build a member photo module that lets
>     other members pull up the photos of a selected member since we
>     have so many members now it's hard to remember their names!
>
>     https://github.com/elplatt/seltzer
>     <https://github.com/elplatt/seltzer>
>
>     I wrote some PHP that queries the Seltzer database that is called
>     from a Python script I wrote that runs on a raspberry Pi with an
>     RFID scanner we use for our front door lock.
>     It's been working great for over a year now!  
>
>     https://wiki.melbournemakerspace.org/projects/RFIDDoorLock
>     <https://wiki.melbournemakerspace.org/projects/RFIDDoorLock>
>
>
>
>
>     On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Matthew "mirage335" Hines
>     <spamfreemirage335 at gmail.com <mailto:spamfreemirage335 at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         You may wish to request an invite to the National Organization
>         of Makers slack channel. This has been recognized as a
>         unsolved problem in need of dedicated technology. An active
>         development effort is underway to begin an extensive Odoo
>         based platform without lock-in.
>
>
>         On 09/09/16 08:03 PM, Dominic Canare wrote:
>>         It's been a little while since we talked about this, and I
>>         wonder if new information or tools are available.
>>
>>         What are people using to manage their members, payments,
>>         equipment authorizations, events and signups, donations, etc?
>>
>>         We've been using WildApricot for the past few years. It does
>>         many things, but all of them are a little lacking. We have a
>>         bunch of work-arounds and custom tools built around their
>>         API's to make it easier for our administrators, but it's
>>         become a bit cumbersome to maintain, and the price keeps
>>         going up.
>>
>>         Looking for suggestions!
>>
>>         *Dominic Canare*
>>         Immediate Past President, MakeICT
>>
>>
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