Software projects for managing coworking spaces (new Drupal-based product in development)

[Christefano]

Hi everyone,

The open source Drupal development community (who develops and uses the software that powers sites like Marketplace.org, Now Public, dev.twitter.com, and Whitehouse.gov) is rallying behind a Drupal-based product to make the management of coworking spaces easier. There isn't an official name yet, but our wiki page is here:

  Coworking Wiki at Drupal Groups
  http://groups.drupal.org/coworking/wiki

This effort is being spearheaded largely out of Droplabs, a coworking space, classroom and hackerspace that opened in Los Angeles, California, in early 2011. We're planning a code sprint at the end of January, 2013, to build and generalize some of the functionality listed in our wiki document:

  List of Features
  http://groups.drupal.org/node/274063#features

Anyone who's interested in welcome to join our working group and local Drupal user group!

  Coworking at Drupal Groups
  http://groups.drupal.org/coworking

  Downtown Los Angeles Drupal
  http://groups.drupal.org/downtown-los-angeles

Is the Airline Seat Reservation System the only Coworking Wiki page about coworking space management software? This was the only page I could find:

  AirlineSeatReservationSystem
  http://wiki.coworking.com/w/page/16583260/AirlineSeatReservationSystem

Thanks,

 ~ Christefano

  Christefano Reyes | Droplabs.net | Founder and Lead Burrito Analyst
  954-CHRISTO (954-247-4786) | 855-DROPLABS (855-376-7522)
  Collaborative Coworking and Hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles
  https://twitter.com/Droplabs | https://www.meetup.com/Droplabs

 

[Christefano]

We've named the project "Otto" for now.

https://drupal.org/project/otto

"The project and its name were born out of the needs for coworking spaces to automate and reduce the number of systems required for operating a space, managing its inventory, dealing with recurring memberships, and so on."

Collaborators are welcome!

[☮ elf Pavlik ☮]

Excerpts from Christefano's message of 2012-12-23 03:21:00 +0000:

> We've named the project "Otto" for now.
>
> https://drupal.org/project/otto
>
> "The project and its name were born out of the needs for coworking

> spaces to /automate/ and reduce the number of systems required for

> operating a space, managing its inventory, dealing with recurring
> memberships, and so on."
>
> Collaborators are welcome!

sounds great! do you have demo installation somewhere to play with? :)

[Christefano Reyes]

Hi elf,

Thanks for asking! As an open source project, development on Otto has just begun.

After working on the roadmap some more and mapping out specific features for the 1.0 release, we'll be writing new code and generalizing some of the code already written for the Droplabs.net website.

You're welcome to join the development effort or simply sign up at http://groups.drupal.org/coworking and follow http://twitter.com/DrupalCoworking for updates.

~ Christefano

Christefano | Founder and Lead Burrito Analyst
Droplabs | Collaborative Drupal in Downtown LA
http://droplabs.net | @Droplabs | 855-DROPLABS