Protospace

An outline of my projects at Calgary's makerspace Protospace.

Protospace is Calgary's original makerspace, a place where people go to make things and work on projects. It's a two-bay industrial shop with a full wood working area, metal working area, electronics lab, two laser cutters, five 3D printers, and sewing room. Members pay $55/month for 24/7 access to the facility and everyone is equal: Protospace has no owners and decisions are made by the membership.

Do-ocracy

The driving principle behind Protospace's success is do-ocracy. If you want to make a change and it would take fewer than four hours to revert, go ahead and do it. Under a do-ocracy people are encouraged to be bold and improve the space however they want. Larger changes and disagreements are decided at the next monthly members' meeting.

Under this system, I've created several projects in order to make Protospace a better place. I'll outline them here:

Spaceport

Spaceport is our member portal and my main project at Protospace. It tracks memberships, transactions, courses, class attendance, access cards, and statistics about Protospace and its members.

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