Proposal: Membership System 2.1

[unknowndomain (Tommie / TomL / Tom)]

Made substancial layout changes to the profile app which is the login landing page.

The main page is now called welcome, and shows interesting facts about your membership.

The key areas are now in a side navigation rather than hidden in menus, this should hopefully encourage members to complete their profiles and help find what they are looking for.

Now shows you how many days you’ve visited

Only other major change is the edit profile screen which has the details about your avatar in, so as to avoid cluttering the side menu with external links.

Major benefit is that areas like statement and permissions are far more visible to members now than before.

[unknowndomain (Tommie / TomL / Tom)]

Idea for 2.3:

Introduction of a new equipment model which shows the status of equipment derived from an API interface with future tool control systems.

equipment is connected to a permission so users can see who is able to access the utility alongside details about the piece of equipment.

equipment can have scheduling enabled which would allow users to book non-overlapping time ranges by quarter hour.

API changes to enable tool control devices to report status, and check bookings/permissions.

[benh (ben hyde)]

hi tom

hope you don’t mind you asking here about the membership system

i am part of diyspace for london (a venue/social centre) who have 6k+ members (and currently paying a small fortune to MemberMojo to administer membership

do you think your system could work for this many members - and does it have to be integrated with Discourse? - we use Loomio currently (and very few members actually want to sign up to it as they are not actively involved in the space).

cheers,
ben

[tobyspark (Toby Harris)]

Ben - separate to that, I’d love to hear about your experiences with Loomio.

[benh (ben hyde)]

hi toby

no problem
probably easier face to face
when are you next at the space?

[tobyspark (Toby Harris)]

When? Good question. Probability for the Governance meeting, which is in the process of being scheduled. Sounds like you might have some relevant experience there, too.

Go on, go on, go...vernance -Meeting 7pm TONIGHT (22/10/17)

Can’t make any of the dates below? Post on this thread to say you’re interested in being involved, and we’ll make sure you get the opportunity! There was fantastic passion in the last member’s meeting when we discussed elements of our governance - such as who should be able to stand as a Director, and who should be eligible to vote. The Governance Group would really like to expand and get input from more members on some really fundamental ideas about how SLMS should organise itself for the futu…

[unknowndomain (Tommie / TomL / Tom)]

Hey Ben,

I’m super busy with freelance work at the moment however we could meet at lunch time one day next week at my work, or after 31st October and have a chat.

In theory you can use the software, do you have a coder sort that might be able to maintain the system?

Tom

[benh (ben hyde)]

thanks Tom

we may be able to find one…

but is this system integrally linked to Discourse (or could it in theory be run stand-alone)?

cheers, ben

[benh (ben hyde)]

worth a look at https://loomio.coop/ if you haven’t (lots about working collectively)

i posted in the go go go thread - so i will keep an eye out for the meeting date

[tobyspark (Toby Harris)]

Loomio – ah, know the marketing materials, hadn’t seen that. interesting. but main thing is i’d like to hear about real-world take-up, and whether it has fit alongside other tools.

[tomnewsom]

It’s standalone. Discourse integration is entirely optional

[unknowndomain (Tommie / TomL / Tom)]

I picked up the work that @naxxfish had started some time ago working on a way to display the status of tools to members.

This screen is fully functional now, it would allow any future tool control to send the status of an item such that we can display it.

Also more importantly it would allow us to remove the controversial space log from discourse and create a simple icon which shows if the shutter is open or closed without information about who was there.

EDIT: Now moving onto looking at inductions.

[alanmakestuff (Alan Michael Sutcliffe)]

I got an Amazon Echo for Christmas and I noticed there was a Skill (plugin) on the list by a maker space up north that told you if the door was open just by asking Alexa Can someone write an API for Alexa too? haha jk

[alanmakestuff (Alan Michael Sutcliffe)]

errr, nevermind

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/ask-overviews/requirements-to-build-a-skill.html

[unknowndomain (Tommie / TomL / Tom)]

I don’t see why not.

[alanmakestuff (Alan Michael Sutcliffe)]

Wow great!

[naxxfish (Chris)]

Alexa, ask South London Makerspace if the shutter is open ? Like that ?

[unknowndomain (Tommie / TomL / Tom)]

Yus exactly

[DAC17 (Dale Connolly)]

Alexa, are there enough coffee beans in the coffee machine and, if at all possible, could you please pour us a cuppa? I’m 10mins away…

[lewisss (Mark Johnson)]

Alexa, are there enough coffee beans in the coffee machine and, if at all possible, could you please pour us a cuppa? I’m 10mins away…

no there is not … donations of beans greatly appreciated