Emergency: Urgent help needed!

@members The current membership system has a number of serious faults in it resulting in members not being able to physically gain access to the space on a daily basis.

We are also facing a deadline of November when the system Persona that we use to handle user login will be discontinued and members will not be able to login or join.

We are at a crisis point with this, the work to offload trustee responsibilities has begun but we are nowhere near at the point I can find time for this, the project is too much for one person, my skills are not strong enough and frankly I’ve run out of enthusiasm on it.

There is an urgent need for the continued operation of Makerspace for some people to help. We’ve had a few false starts but other life issues have distracted from this project.

We absolutely desperately need help to replace the old system.

Please can someone help!

I’m certainly up for this in principle and intend to come to the open evening tomorrow to talk with anyone more familiar with it.

Hey, it would be good to get some momentum on this project again. Would Thursday evening work for anyone?

I can do Thursday if that’s better for people involved in this.

That would be great @squaredoffagain if you could.

I don’t think that there is anyone else specifically working on this at the moment so it’s for us to pick up… And anyone else who wants to dig in.

Roll up roll up, #node #mongo #javascriptallthethings

I’ll be there Thursday. Still prob a week away from being able to dedicate serious time to this though.

@unknowndomain Is there anything we can do in the meantime to fix the People stuck outside bug?

Sorry, no skills at all in this field!

OK. I’ll be there Thursday evening with laptop, not Wednesday.

We could put a spare fob in the keysafe? But a stuck outside member works still need to contact a trustee to get the code.

Is there any way we can make the title of this thread a little bit more dramatic, to better reflect the seriousness of the situation?

I’m coming down on Thursday, I don’t think I can contribute a lot of time but I can offer some. Hopefully enough of us can get together to make it work. :slight_smile:

I did consider OMG the Makerspace is closing down, but I thought that might be alarmist.

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Id be happy to help in general, but I know very little of node.js. This may or may not be a good opportunity to learn.

@peter_hellyer , i reckon you would be spreading yourself thin, you’re one of three foreman for the physical work and it might impact that, it seems like there is a good crew on this anyhow by the sounds of it

I agree Pete doesn’t need the distraction but I don’t think we have anyone yet who’s shown the ability to put the time in on this, it’s a big project frankly.

wish I could but I’ve 0 skills in this area. :frowning:

Will be there for 7. See you a little later @squaredoffagain, @matt

Sadly I’ve had to get a train home (out of London) due to a family situation.

Please let me know the outcome, I am still willing to help where possible.

Will be down as soon as I can (ETA 9ish)