This is a great idea!
I think membership card discussions come up at hackspaces all the time and I agree with Yuriy on this; it’s nice to have a physical token that signifies your membership.
Also being able to use the cards in our local community for discounts at shops, etc would be awesome.
In that sense I would purpose the following guidelines:
- Annual issuance of official VHS Membership Cards
- Year visibly printed on the card
- Annual redesign of the cards; at minimum a change in the year
- Card must have NFC capability to store a payload of member ID or card authentication token or future capability
- A nominal fee charged for a card to cover production cost
@rsim made on awesome suggestion of doing a design contest for the membership cards! I think we should go for that and I’ve started a post VHS Homework Assignment #4: 2015 VHS Membership Card Design Contest!