[hackerspaces] Member and event management systems

[Matthew "mirage335" Hines]

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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