[hackerspaces] Member and event management systems

Sat Sep 10 13:45:01 CEST 2016

I built a system for the Brighton (England) Makerspace a few years back.
Its very specific to us but it has a good feature set and is forkable.
https://github.com/ArthurGuy/BBMembershipSystem/

Thanks,
Arthur

On 10 September 2016 at 11:34, Altin Ukshini <altin.ukshini at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've started one here: https://github.com/altinukshini/hackerspacecrm
> But it'll take some time to be useful. I'll be working on it for another
> year for sure as it's also a school project and we need for Prishtina
> Hackerspace too (we use Seltzer)
>
> Cheers,
> Altin
>
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.
>
> On Sep 10, 2016 4:30 AM, "Edward L Platt" <ed at elplatt.com> wrote:
>
>> It's worth mentioning that several of us worked on developing a
>> free/open-source system to do this called Seltzer, with mixed success. It
>> never made it to 1.0, but has been successfully used at a number of spaces.
>> The project is currently maintenance-only, but I do plan to devote more
>> effort to decentralized free/open software for organizing communities at
>> some point.
>>
>> It's a hard problem, but mostly for non-technical reasons. Some
>> challenges we found that might not be obvious:
>>
>> 1. It's not a sexy topic, so it's hard to attract volunteers, and it's
>> hard to raise money.
>>
>> 2. On a related note, member management systems are long-term projects,
>> which means whatever stack you build the technology on, it will spend most
>> of it's life cycle being "old, boring" technology.
>>
>> 3. Everyone does things differently. One approach is to build a tool that
>> can be configured to do anything (CiviCRM is a good example) but the
>> downside is that it gets very complicated and difficult to use. Another
>> approach is to make a lightweight core that can be extended (we tried this
>> with Seltzer).
>>
>> 4. It's difficult to build collaborations across spaces. Different spaces
>> stumble across or create their own solutions, which makes pooling resources
>> difficult.
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>> Ed
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Derek H <dh405okc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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