[hackerspaces] Member and event management systems

Derek H dh405okc at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 04:01:16 CEST 2016


How does one request an invite to that slack?

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Matthew "mirage335" Hines <
spamfreemirage335 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Matthew "mirage335" Hines <
>> 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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