User:Martind

Martin Dittus, martin@dekstop.de, @dekstop. Long-time member, LHS trustee since late 2011.

Pages

• User:Martind/LondonSpaces -- a list of misc other hackerspace-type organisations in London
• EMF 2012 (wiki archive, archived user page, old meeting minutes)
• Propaganda: The Cost of Hacking (github)
• Bitcoin Weekend 2011
• Pachube/Nanode evening at London Hackspace
• User:Martind/Young Hackspace
• User:Martind/Document Log Discovery Platform
• User:Martind/LfmHardwareAuction
• User:Martind/Spacewarming

Member Manual

Pages I'd include in a member's manual:

Welcome

• Guides/GettingStarted
• Membership
• Subgroups
• Weekly_Open_Evenings
• Laboratory_24/Getting_There
• List_of_mailing_lists, IRC

Howto

• Guides, esp:
  • Guides/Using_the_space
  • Guides/Bringing_items_to_the_space
  • Guides/Planning_an_event
  • Guides/Running_a_pledge
  • Guides/Filming_in_the_space
• Maintenance, Maintenance/Adopt-a-Spanner
• Faceplant

About us

• Organisation
• Organisation/Trustees
• Rules
• Grievance_Procedure

Useful resources/links

• Suppliers

Hackspace culture

• Other_Hackspaces
• Starting a Hackerspace

I don't think it's worth including pages like Infrastructure, Projects, OneHundredThings, Training_Directory, Equipment, Project:100_Paper_Cuts -- they're useful resources but very badly maintained and always out of date.

Spc Mgmt

There's a need for better tools to manage your highly successful hackerspace. Here are some free ideas. Get in touch if you end up building one of these!

Unsolved

• Pledge drive automation (it's possible to use Semantic MediaWiki and Wiki forms for this, see pledge drives at Technologia Incognita for an example)
• Registration and announcements for training sessions (e.g. Lasercutter_Training)
• Component ordering tool. E.g. a simple tool for re-ordering things we want to keep on stock (see consumables), a collaborative components shopping list for larger projects, a tool to group purchases of individuals to reduce shipping cost, etc.

In Progress

• Member decision-making tools: discourse and consensus testing (lots of people are working on such software atm, and there's our own OneClickOrgs. See also: [1])
• Tool access control linked to member accounts

Done

• (Is anything ever done?)

Trustee Induction

Things to go over with new trustees.

• Set up IRC with bouncer, add to directors channel
• Add to trustees@ email
• Share Dropbox
• Create OCO account
• Add their keys to the passwords file
• Have them read the Rules, the Grievance_Procedure, and at least skim the constitution
• Review current issues: member warnings, recent/current mediation efforts
• Let them participate in a few day-to-day tasks (e.g. member disputes)
• Add them to the mailing list moderators list (if desired)
• Add them to the uk-hackspace-organiser-comms list
• If available: hand over keys from predecessor