[hackerspaces] Member and event management systems

bownes bownes at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 15:57:03 CEST 2016 

At the Center of Gravity we use Seltzer with quite a few add ons to handle badges, access control, and billing. 

> The On Sep 10, 2016, at 07:45, Arthur Guy <arthur at arthurguy.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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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