[hackerspaces] Discuss Digest, Vol 97, Issue 5

S Charlesworth mistasteve at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 04:10:54 CEST 2016 

My theory on membership management and RFID access software is it's like
with web frameworks. There's never going to be 'the' web framework.
Everybody's going to think they can do better and try to do better, or at
least think 'it's more fun to roll my own'. Every hackerspace or makerspace
should have their own homegrown project, preferably in part stitched
together clown's pants style from other hackerspaces' efforts. And that's
beautiful, man.

All that said yeah Seltzer or CiviCRM seem to have fans.

Steve
from
Bloominglabs
Author of YARS (yet another RFID system)

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> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 19:03:34 -0500
> From: Dominic Canare <dom at makeict.org>
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> 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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> From: Pete Prodoehl <raster at gmail.com>
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> Cc: treasurer at milwaukeemakerspace.org, "info at milwaukeemakerspace.org"
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> Milwaukee Makerspace uses Wild Apricot, though I had nothing to do with
> the implementation. (I'm copying the people who did, in the hopes they
> can chime in.)
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> Pete
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> On 9/9/16 7:03 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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> From: "Matthew \"mirage335\" Hines" <spamfreemirage335 at gmail.com>
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> 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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> From: Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com>
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> 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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> From: Edward L Platt <ed at elplatt.com>
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> What is the National Organization of Makers?
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> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Discuss mailing listDiscuss at lists.hackerspaces.orghttp://lists.
> hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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