[Spacecadets] Rearranging at Quelab

[drew at hardcorp.io]

On 2016-03-06 01:35, Charel Morris wrote:
> 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.

That's why I proposed the following:
>> 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.

That means, of course, don't throw stuff in the trash without approval.

> 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.

That's why I wrote the following:
>> available for members to use for tasks/projects throughout Quelab
>> (though not for removal from Quelab without approval).

IOW, members can use stuff for Quelab-owned projects. The only thing 
that should require approval is claiming stuff for personal projects (or 
throwing stuff in the trash). Using stuff for Quelab-owned projects 
isn't a problem since the stuff stays here and remains owned by Quelab. 
We can later decide to dismantle those projects, or sell them, or throw 
them in the trash, but it isn't a problem to move things from the 
donations pile to somewhere else any more than it's a problem to move 
anything else in Quelab for general organization, since it remains 
Quelab property and it remains here.

> 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.

Why? I'm not talking about using X item for a personal project. I'm 
talking about using it for a Quelab project; I don't see why stuff from 
the donations pile would require approval any more than anything else at 
Quelab would require approval. Using something from the donations pile 
(or from anywhere else in Quelab, except the Hyperspace wall and the 
wood scrap pile) for a personal project of course requires approval, but 
that's a separate issue.

The donations pile is simply stuff that recently became property of 
Quelab and has sat unused. I don't see why there should be different 
usage rules for stuff acquired recently vs. stuff acquired years ago, 
with the only exception being that things for which the donor has 
requested a receipt need to be inventoried first.