[sudoroom] Electronic Donations @ Sudo Room

[David Rorex]

Totally agree. Ace Monster Toys has reached near maximum "stuff" capacity,
so we are being nazis about donations until we get a larger space (which
will probably just repeat the cycle...it'll fill up until we need to be
nazis again).


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:44 AM, rusty lindgren <rustylindgren at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Guyz(that's not gender specific),
>
> I made a point to Jenny last night that we need a list of things we will
> take as donations, and things we won't take.
>
> My reason for this is a very good reason.  I went to a talk at Defcon this
> year by people who have been running hack-spaces for a long time, and they
> said one of the biggest problems they have with their spaces is that they
> get donations that aren't useful, I.E. racks of out-dated servers,
> monitors, etc. that just take up space.
>
> We just loaded a bunch of stuff in last night, and it makes me worried
> that we're not being discriminating enough as far as what we're taking.
>
> I don't have a lot of time to be mentally sharp when I'm not at work,
> because I'm working long hours, so I would prefer if someone could do this,
> but I think we should figure out what things the E-Recycle people will pick
> up for free, or what stuff we can even make money on recycling(if that's
> possible), and then put that on the wiki what kinds of things we will take,
> and then compile a list of what we have, so we don't take too much of
> things.
>
> While this seems like it might be discriminating against this project or
> that project, that's probably a good thing, because I already see shelf
> space getting in the way of work space, and I can move in and out equipment
> easily, and this feels like it could get out of hand, as the expert panel
> at Defcon pointed out.
>
> If nobody wants to do this, I will do it, but in my weakened mental state,
> it might come out totally Nazi-like or something.
>
> Obviously, we can change this, but I think we need this sooner rather than
> later.
>
> Let me know if anyone wants to help out with this.
>
>
> -Rusty
>
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