Some chores before SHHH: door, printer, e-cycle

Hello all,

Last night several people mentioned that the door buzzer thing will need a solution for SHHH.

Also the printers aren’t online yet, so we’re having trouble with waivers. All of our current known-to-work printers are under the admin bench, except for the label maker. Inb4 tiny waivers!

Is there anyone in the space daytime on Thursday? That’s the day free geek will do the e-cycle pickup. They need to be phoned on (604) 879-4335 to make a pickup appointment.

If you can take on any of these items, or have an update, please comment below.

Thank you!

I have access to printer resources at work. If we have an up-to-date
version of the waiver, you can send it to me and tell me how many copies
that you’ll need.

Integration with front door is coming.

If this is an appropriate thread for that discussion, then it can happen here, or get spun out into a new one/

The stuff we have planned for it is geared towards members and keyholders, so for guests and the SHHH there are some options that are not set in stone yet (as far as I can recall):

  • Call / text a member. For the open houses in January, the door was texting @funvill whenever a guest needed to be let in. This wasn’t a great solution, from what I hear.
  • Call the space. Currently the only phone we have is in the machine shop, and very difficult to hear from the other end of the space
  • Just let people in. Might be okay for certain designated times, but kinda screws up security/access control for other tenants in the building.
  • Sound an audible chime somewhere in the space. I like this, but it would need someone to set up a buzzer. Not the “free candy” button!

Like option 2 - surely really simple to extend the phone line to somewhere
central.
Dont know the ins and out of the system but usually one only has to sens a
“9” (DTMF) signal back on the phone line to unlock the door entry once the
internal phone picks up.

I think you mean the hackery. This is why I used to take the stuff there myself, its too hard to arrange pickups. I’ll collect it all on Thursday night and take it there this week. I won’t be around regularly so I can’t be relied upon to do this too often.

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Can you or someone print up quick instructions on what to with the three-week bin?

Something like “Take bin to The Hackery at XYZ E Hastings St, OR call 555-5555 to arrange pickup”

The 3-week bin got to the overflow point at The Bunker a few times, and no one was quite sure what was arranged with who or how.

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Can do.

Perhaps we should create a door code that works only on Thursdays and give it to them. At 45W I think they had a key, it worked well.

I’m not sure we have enough to need a collection every week perhaps we should make it a 2 week system and have the option of calling for extra collections?

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I’ll drop by vhs this evening, if someone is there, then I can pick up one of the boxes of “blue plastic wheeled thingamagis”. I’ve been waiting to see if somebody else has interest on them, but if they are going to be disposed, I’ll grab it.

Option Manual: Have pairs of volunteers work shifts at the front door… bring out the metal table and have them sign waivers right there. This is my personal preference as it makes it immediately inviting and most secure; not just for the main entrance but from guests wondering upstairs, etc

Option Funvill: but have a list of people volunteer to all get SMS from the door so it doesn’t bottle neck on people that miss the notification or are otherwise indisposed.

Call the space Option: Adding more phones seems like it’d be really easy… but once we get music going, etc it might be too drowned out and honestly, unless they are fun ring tones, this will eventually start to piss people off.

Buzzer Option: isn’t it just easier to do a custom ring tone on the phones?

Maybe we have a mobile app developer out there we could integrate with MMP & the phone system to buzz any keyholder that is checked in at VHS? #pipedreams (if we actually do have someone interested in this, it’s on the roadmap but not sure it’s feasible before SHHH, either way if you’re interested get in touch!)

Letting people in directly seems a bit lazy on our part but I only say this as it contrasts to my personal preferred option above with having people volunteer as greeters. That aside, I’d be concerned about security implications and don’t feel like this is an option for us.

For the record, I am volunteering for a greeter shift if that’s a direction we decide to take.

We potentially have 3 different states when it comes to the space: closed, open for any non key-holding members, open to the public. I’m only going to talk about the open to the public scenario for events like Tuesday night or SHHH (or other public events a key holder might want to back).

My thought was to give the key holder a few options on how they would like to open the space:

First option (default): When a guest enters the suite number on the intercom, a light/buzzer/both will go off in the space indicating that someone is at the door. At this point you have to go let them in.

Second option: Same as above but automatically open the door, while you don’t have to let the person in you should be aware about a new guest coming to the space.

Third option: When a guest enters the suite number the intercom is patched to the phone where you can answer the call and dial 9 to let them in.

So we could have all three options available for the key holder to choose.

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There must be some sort of channel we can use in combination with Slack for this!

Option number 4: Bottom liner signs up to answer with their own phone.

With any option, this would (also) require further ambassadors inside of the space (for the safety/intro tour).

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I think(/hope) we have the network online before the 21st, so we should be good by then.

You can find the Liability Waiver on the first page of the Google Docs document.

At the door is great. Waivers and “suggested donation” right then and there.

Why is this in Homework btw?

Misfiled? Could have been “infrastructure”.

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