Howdy, all! At this week's meeting I announced Spaceman Spiff, the webapp I've started that has potential to become a really useful tool for the space.
Here's what it currently does: * Figure out who is trained on what tools so you know who to ask for help or see if a class would be appealing * Create events and 'reserve' resources (which could be tools, the classroom, the electronics lab, or whatever) so that others know what is going on. * Keep track of who has RSVP'd for an event * Attach arbitrary metadata to resources, such as a link to the internet pinball database for the pinball machine, or the serial number of the aoyue soldering station * Generates barcodes that can be stuck on things so other people can scan them and figure out what the heck that machine actually does * Record important and private member information including emergency contact information, mailing addresses, or your personal PIN should we ever get a keyless door lock. * A changelog of all resources to create an auditable trail of who changed what, or who thought that I knew how to use a circular saw. Here's some features it plans on supporting soon: * SSL will be enforced * Pay your dues online via Dwolla (current favorite) or Stripe (credit card) * Easily check and see if your dues are paid or not * Click a button to let everyone else know that a machine is broken or that we're out of paper towels. * Event creators can send mails to everyone who has RSVP'd * The site will automatically mail people a day in advance of upcoming events they have RSVP'd to. * Act as an authentication mechanism to the wiki and whatever else we come up with: one password for everything. * Handling equipment and tool loans * Integration with any sensors we want to add to the space such as temperature, ambient brightness, door lock state, etc * A simple JSON/REST API to allow machines to access all of this stuff, which can lead to some really cool projects. Things Spiff won't be doing: * Replacing the wiki. * Automatic payments of your dues. * Making private member information public without your consent. * Handling weekly meeting stuff. * Automatically running the PR campaign for the special events and classes you want to run. It is currently available at: http://synhak.org/auth/ I encourage everyone to register an account and help test this. Towards the end of next month, we'll consider making it the primary method of recording member information and keeping track of your member dues. There are three currently known bugs: * When you login, it'll send you to /accounts/profile instead of /auth/accounts/profile, presenting you with a 404 error page. Just go back to http://synhak.org/auth/ and it'll be fine. * Logging out redirects you to the wiki instead of the Spiff homepage. * No privacy policy is documented Spiff is Open Source software, licensed under the AGPL, available on github: https://github.com/synhak/spiff _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
