[Spacecadets] Rearranging at Quelab

[Charel Morris]

I was one of those last night startled by the photo and massive shift. my
first response was we don't have a signed lease. Then realized that if by
some way the agent found out - probably not a big problem.

Today I spent several hours in the annex with the orientation. And my take
after looking at everything is it hopefully will make the major task of
figuring out what might stay from what should be sold - where there is
value and how to get that value. And I was happy thinking that Darren and
team will have a less daunting job in front of them now.

And I can't quote the process on donations but before a member decides they
want to use X item - they should and need to speak with Darren. If it is
something that has value for sale - members can buy it for less than what
we would be looking to sell it for. But this is Darren world and more than
once some item that most of the members thought should go out with the
trash had a really nice and surprising value and Darren managed it and
brought in cash for Quelab.

So if you see something that interests you maybe put a note on it. It
wouldn't be a parking ticket as it isn't actually your yet and I think that
could confuse things. But let him know you are interested.

Then everything gets sorted and you will find out if that item is now yours
or if there is some price for it. Or if it is something that Quelab needs
and it will be of value to the entire community.

The donation area went through a 'perfect storm' in the last 3+ months and
I don't think anyone is to blame. We have been needing more space for a
while. We all tend to leave stuff around. And we all have our personal
lives and families to consider. And who knew an entire camera store would
basically (as the 'Proverbial' last straw) would give us all their
equipment and resources and it all had to be moved out before end of Feb.
Life happens and Quelab continues to proverbial grow and be an awesome
place filled with awesome people.

See you all at the Potluck and meeting tomorrow.

Thanks for being awesome!

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 5:08 PM, <drew at hardcorp.io> wrote:

> On 2016-03-05 04:08, John Benedetto wrote:
>
>> However, I can also see WHY someone
>> moved it, since Darren & I haven't been able to make significant
>> progress on reducing the backlog.  However, this is not dealing with
>> the problem, only moving it...
>>
>
> Stuff was packed and piled up in the donations area such that the only way
> to get to much of it was to climb on/over it and dig down into it. That
> made it impractical for members to find things in it. With the stuff spread
> out along a wall in the south space, it's much easier for members to find
> things in it, which makes it more likely that things will actually be used
> instead of just piling up, and that will help reduce the backlog.
>
> it all STILL needs processed & dealt
>> with, and any semblance of order we had is now lost.
>>
>
> Sometimes things are donated from people or companies who want receipts
> for tax purposes, and these things obviously need to be left alone until
> the donations officer can inventory them. But that didn't apply to any of
> the things in the donations zone yesterday, and the donations officer
> doesn't need to inventory donations for which receipts aren't requested
> since Quelab doesn't maintain an inventory of what's here. As I understand,
> everything else is available for members to use for tasks/projects
> throughout Quelab (though not for removal from Quelab without approval). Is
> that correct? If so, then what other processing needs to be done?
>
> Probably some of it needs to go in the dumpster, and some of it needs to
> be sold. But that can apply not only to newly-donated stuff, but also to
> stuff that's been at Quelab for years. To deal with that, members should be
> able to tag things in Quelab, both in the donations pile and everywhere
> else, as proposed-to-dump or proposed-to-sell, and at the next monthly
> meeting, all the members who show up get to vote on dumping and selling the
> tagged things. Having the donations pile spread out and accessible
> facilitates this process.
>
> In any case, we had a deadline for clearing space for the welding class.
> The outside storage area was packed (even after we moved a bunch of wood
> and a giant desk out of it, there was still no room for welding), and the
> clean-out planned for Saturday morning would have been too late for the
> welding class. The weeks or months the board would have needed to resolve
> the donations pile problem would have made that too late too, since the
> welding class was only a few hours away. Our course of action seemed most
> practical; sorry if we offended anyone.
>
>


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