Roomer
Explore desk and asset reservations on uploaded floor plans
Review status: Research backlog. Research candidate with incomplete checks; not a vetted recommendation.
Official Website · Source Code
oss-osi-approved planned guideOverview
Roomer is the c0dewhacker self-hosted desk and asset reservation project. Its official repository describes buildings, floors and uploaded plans with bookable assets. A coworking team could explore visual hot-desk discovery in an isolated pilot. Production reliability, security, accessibility and recovery have not been established here.
At a glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Categories | booking-scheduling |
| Deployment | self-hosted |
| License class | oss-osi-approved (AGPL-3.0-only) |
| Cost model | free-self-hosted |
| Implementation difficulty | hard |
| Maintenance burden | high |
| Maturity | emerging |
| Freshness status | partially-verified (2026-10-23) |
| Completeness | partial |
| Confidence | medium |
| Directory tier | research-backlog |
Cost reality
Self-hosted source is available without a software subscription; server, database, floor-plan preparation and technical support still cost time or money. No managed-service price or support commitment is verified.
Plans, provider terms and prices change; check official sources before making a budget or deployment decision.
Tasks reduced or augmented
Software does not replace community or ops staff. It may reduce or augment:
- Explore visual desk availability and reservation requests
- Reduce manual selection of desks from a spreadsheet during a test
Human oversight still needed
- Check desk accessibility, suitability and actual availability
- Assess security, backups, support and booking conflicts before any operational trial
Manual process this can replace
Structured task-fit review has not been completed for this tool. Treat the free-text examples above as evaluation prompts, not replacement claims.
Data held
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user identities
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building and floor plans
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desk and asset records
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reservations
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Personal data: yes
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Payment data: no / not primary
Collect only data needed for the pilot and confirm access, deletion and export behavior before operational adoption.
Risks
| Area | Notes |
|---|---|
| Vendor lock-in | Export, migration and restore behavior have not been tested; retain a practical manual fallback before depending on the tool. |
| Security | Readiness is unverified. Keep the first pilot isolated with synthetic data; review authentication, generated credentials, upload handling, network access and database backups before exposing it. |
| Compliance | Floor plans and occupancy data can be sensitive; obtain permission and define access and retention before using real locations or member records. |
| Licensing | The exact project from prior research is c0dewhacker/Roomer, which identifies AGPL-3.0. Do not confuse it with similarly named room, hotel or property products. |
| Operational | Repository features are not evidence of safe production operation. Release/support policy, security response, migration recovery, accessibility and operator adoption remain unresolved; no memberships, billing or access-control capability is asserted. |
Coworking fit
Roles: operations-manager, community-manager, technical-operator
Workflows: desk-hot-desk, room-booking
Problems: replace-spreadsheets, improve-member-experience
Smallest useful experiment
In an isolated environment with synthetic users, upload one non-sensitive sample floor plan and reserve five sample desks, checking conflicts and cancellations before considering any real member data.
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Implementation guide
No implementation guide is published yet.
Verification
- Status:
partially-verified - Completeness:
partial - Confidence:
medium - Tier:
research-backlog - Last reviewed:
2026-10-23 - Sources:
Bounded official-source metadata review only. Features and edition boundaries were read; installation, task-fit evaluation, operator outcomes, integrations, security and recovery were not tested. Retained in Research Backlog; not a recommendation.