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Must Do

• Allow organisation and individual members to join - including payment handling/tacking
• Reporting of ad-hoc and/or end of year income from membership payments
• Manage master list of spaces (including member spaces as a subset)
• Admin: user management
• Admin: space info management

Should Do

• Automatically add members to discourse group (and remove if they expire)
• Allow/encourage members to manage their own space info (e.g. require an annual refresh as part of membership renewal)
• Allow member organisations to add other users (e.g. their own members)
• Provide data syndication endpoints (e.g. for space info, geojson)
• Provide an API for updating space info and/or a spaceAPI interface
• Provide a secure way to disseminate discount scheme info to member spaces (where it needs to be kept confidential)
• Allow joe public to register their interest in a new hackspace at a given location (e.g. I want one in my home town), and provide support mechanism to track/report these requests in order to help connect like minded folk and help bootstrap new spaces
• Allow bulk email comms to all members (e.g. for announcements)
• Provide a shared calendar (web and ical) for key foundation events - e.g. physical meetups, AGM

Could Do

• Aggregate news feeds from individual space websites into a UK-wide hackspace news feed
• Allow flexible survey data to be collected from member spaces (e.g. to support insurance RFP):
  • track data quality/completeness
  • allow for simple reporting (e.g. json, csv export)
  • allow for annual (or ad-hoc) refresh, retaining history to allow trends to be graphed/analysed (e.g. membership levels over time)
• Allow votes to be framed, issued and concluded through the site, accounting for the weighting of space vs individual members
  • Support associated free-form discussion, possibly linked to discourse
  • Support for adding additional proposals to initial problem
• Aggregate calendar events (ical feeds) from member spaces into a UK-wide hackspace events feed
  • Allow member spaces to indicate "hero" events for headlining on main website