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Edward L Platt
Apr 11, 2017, 6:04:24 PM4/11/17
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Hey friends!
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From: Willow Brugh <willo...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:56 PM
Subject: [hackerspaces] member checkin
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From: Willow Brugh <willo...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:56 PM
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Hey all. Long time no post. Hope everyone is well. I've been deep in the humanitarian/disaster technology mines. Finally, an overlap between the work I've been up to, and my heydays with y'all has come to pass. A group called Communitere [communitere.org], which I really like (more community-based hackerspace than dropped-in fablab) is setting up a space in Greece. I come to you with a request for help in setting up access which also tracks metrics associated with humanitarian work.
Our desired flow for gathering those metrics are based on what sorts of actions we can take after the data is gathered, how much information can be asked for in one setting without being burdensome, and how to increase the autonomy of the individuals and organizations answering the questions (we expect to be working with refugees and politically active Greeks).
We anticipate the flow to be this:
* First visit generates a unique identifier (required, can be pseudonymous) and a way to get the person updates (opt-in but encouraged).
* Nth visit requests demographic information and thoughts on how they would change the space (both opt-in, with indicators of why it’s important for us to know and how the information will be used).
* N+X visit has more of a survey on how they use the space, if their capacity has changed over time, etc (same as above).
We think we’re basically looking for a clock-/check-in tool which auto-loads questions after a predetermined number of someone entering the space. We’re working in a resource-limited (but not -low) environment (we anticipate intermittent power and internet). Our field team is also not super technically savvy - asking someone to “spin up a local instance” is unlikely to work, although we could possibly throw some dollars at an open source project being supported or adapted to these needs.
We can see implementation happening a few different ways:
* Bar/QR codes on laminated cards or stored locally to a smartphone, scanned on an iPad or Android tablet at a front desk kiosk.
* A security person at the front desk to inputs the person’s UID to a laptop or desktop computer.
* An RFID reader which auto-sends a form to people via their preferred method of contact after a certain number of checkins, gives a different tone while the questionnaire needs to be filled out.
* Et cetera.
If you know of anything which meets (or could meet within 2 weeks) these needs, please do let me know! We’re also looking at tool library software to link to this.
We anticipate the flow to be this:
* First visit generates a unique identifier (required, can be pseudonymous) and a way to get the person updates (opt-in but encouraged).
* Nth visit requests demographic information and thoughts on how they would change the space (both opt-in, with indicators of why it’s important for us to know and how the information will be used).
* N+X visit has more of a survey on how they use the space, if their capacity has changed over time, etc (same as above).
We think we’re basically looking for a clock-/check-in tool which auto-loads questions after a predetermined number of someone entering the space. We’re working in a resource-limited (but not -low) environment (we anticipate intermittent power and internet). Our field team is also not super technically savvy - asking someone to “spin up a local instance” is unlikely to work, although we could possibly throw some dollars at an open source project being supported or adapted to these needs.
We can see implementation happening a few different ways:
* Bar/QR codes on laminated cards or stored locally to a smartphone, scanned on an iPad or Android tablet at a front desk kiosk.
* A security person at the front desk to inputs the person’s UID to a laptop or desktop computer.
* An RFID reader which auto-sends a form to people via their preferred method of contact after a certain number of checkins, gives a different tone while the questionnaire needs to be filled out.
* Et cetera.
If you know of anything which meets (or could meet within 2 weeks) these needs, please do let me know! We’re also looking at tool library software to link to this.
And of course, there are other spaces in Greece. We'd love to support what is already happening - be in touch!
Thanks!
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Edward L. Platt
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Joshua Pritt
Apr 13, 2017, 1:41:55 PM4/13/17
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A simple solution might be to get a barcode scanner app for your front desk phone to scan the barcode ID cards as each person comes in then put it into a spreadsheet: http://www.clzbarry.com/
Then you can put in all your info into the row for that spreadsheet.
You would have to do a Ctrl+F in the spreadsheet to find the person on the Nth visit.
Kinda hokey but it might work!
Kinda hokey but it might work!
Joshua Pritt
Apr 13, 2017, 1:48:10 PM4/13/17
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Or this app looks really good!
Esp with the custom forms input!
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