Hackerspace Software

From HackerspaceWiki

Running a hackerspace is a lot of work, and a lot of spaces have rolled their own software to automate some of that work. Most of that code is not maintainable enough to be reused by other spaces.

To make things better, folks from the Metalab started their own hackerspace operating system and opensourced it. Other hackerspaces like Netzladen are already testing the software for their own use, and further development.

• Hackerspace OS Page on code.google.com.
• Software Wish List

Contents 1 Other tools 1.1 Financial Software 1.2 Occupancy notification solutions 1.3 Social tools 1.4 Infrastructure 1.5 Project Tools

[edit] Other tools

[edit] Financial Software

These are the various financial software solutions that are being utilized by hackerspaces:

• Makers Local 256 - GoogelDocs Spreadsheets (looking for new solution)
• Gumbo Labs - GNUCash (looking for new solution)
• Hive76 - OpenOffice Spreadsheet

[edit] Occupancy notification solutions

• OpenDuino - syn2cat uses an arduino-php-mediawiki combo to set, and communicate the space occupancy status.

[edit] Social tools

• TweetyCat - syn2cat uses a (very rough) twitter client to tweet about new wiki pages, new planet posts and status changes to its occupancy status
• GiantRobot - a tool to help with sending reminders about meetings, using plugins to communicate with upcoming.org, microblogging (twitter/identi.ca/statusnet), e-mail, IRC and Atom Blog posting.
• twiddoor 2.0 - Maschinenraum uses a LPT-Cable to tweet if the door to the hackspace is clozed or open. See @mr_door.
• GozerBot - a _very_ communicative irc/jabber bot with fleet-capability, rss-stuff, infoitems, ...

[edit] Infrastructure

• hexaled - Alpha One Labs uses an arduino to control 6 individual light fixtures by pointing a laser at sensors.

[edit] Project Tools

• APAD (A Project A Day) - Alpha One Labs uses this extremely simple project picker to decide what to work on.