Add a "Membership" page

AndyGaskell commented 1 year ago

Provide details of membership, costs, benefits, process etc.

Also provide info on remote membership, as per... AGM 2023, Set fee level for remote membership

This will improve transparency and might even help people decide to join.

AndyGaskell commented 1 year ago

we could include...

How guests are allowed with members
Pointers for members hosting events
General expectations of members
Remote members

Member benefits

A key
Storage space
Access any time
...

Hibby commented 1 year ago

A first pass on some text:

Members

Anyone is welcome to join 57North hacklab. We recommend that you visit us a few times on Open Tuesday first to get a feel for the community and meet some friendly faces!

Once you know you want to join, to fill out our membership form [link tba](). The board will acknowledge your application and confirm whether it has been accepted within a week.

Membership costs £20 per month.

Membership Benefits

Access

As a member, you get a key for 24/7 access to the hackerspace. This allows you to not only work on projects, but invite guests to the hackerspace, run events (weekly meetups, weekend hackathons/lan parties/etc) and use the equipment and tools of the space as and when you see fit.

It is expected that when running an event regardless of whether it is weekend or regular and open to the public or not, you email the -discuss mailing list first to seek community agreement and to ensure that others aren't planning on doing something at the same time!

Storage

As a member of the hackerspace, you will be allowed to store projects, equipment and other hardware at the hackerspace. Typically members have had a single cardboard box, however as we have more space members have expanded and taken up more room!

We expect that items are stored in boxes on our storage shelves, and that permanent change of a free workspace must be discussed with the wider community.

Guests

Members of the hackerspace are entitled to invite non members into our space to use our tools, workspace or just be part of the wider community. We ask that you take responsibility for tidying any and all mess and guest items are cleared as if they are your own.

Remote Members

Remote members of the hackerspace are those who live >80km from the centre of Aberdeen. This is intended for our supporters and friends who come to an event or two a year and want to help us out as a community.

Membership costs a minimum of £2.50 a month.

Remote members have the same benefits as above, but we reserve the right to not issue with a key, or only temporarily grant you a key to allow access when you are within 80km of Aberdeen.

AndyGaskell commented 1 year ago

That sounds good. I like the wee blurb we have one the About page at https://www.57north.org.uk/about

Our Members
Of course there would not be a hacklab were it not for our members. Our membership 
spans many technical fields with those that have knowledge and experience and also 
those that wish to learn. The hacklab exists for everyone that would like to use it. We 
welcome everyone, and enthusiastically celebrate diversity.

...so we could maybe add that to the beginning.

I wonder if we should have the "Statement on Equality and Diversity" as a website page, rather than a wiki page. It's a good thing to include for sure.

AndyGaskell commented 1 year ago

So far it's looking like this... issue41_membership_page_01

Hibby commented 1 year ago

Yeah, looks good. Strong agree on the diversity page being a webpage, it protects us from malicious edits. I'll draft a form this afternoon using a combination of MS Office and Adobe :)

Hibby commented 1 year ago

A first pass!

57North Membership form.pdf

Hibby commented 1 year ago

57North Membership form PDF Form 2.pdf

Updated revision, I like this one more!

AndyGaskell commented 1 year ago

That form looks great, nice one :)

I created a new "Statement on Equality and Diversity" page #45

adventureloop commented 1 year ago

Form probably shouldn't have the bank details - our process should be to respond with the details and the reference for the new member to use.

AndyGaskell commented 1 year ago

Yea, I'm never sure about publishing bank details. I put them on all my invoices, but they're not really published to the world.

Hibby commented 1 year ago

Form probably shouldn't have the bank details - our process should be to respond with the details and the reference for the new member to use.

Fixed in commit c9fab17

hackerdeen / website