[Spacecadets] Rearranging at Quelab

[dknutson]

Everyone keeps blaming the welding class but forget it.  I worked with the 
instructor to set up the class and we both agreed on what was needed and 
that he could safely work with the pad outside.  We went over every facet of 
the class to insure safety and reasonable work area.  Ideal facilities are 
not always possible or practical.  Please do not make assumptions about 
other people and try to blame your actions on someone else you did not 
consult.  If you have a problem with what someone else is doing have the 
courtesy to ask them.

Darrel

-----Original Message----- 
From: drew at hardcorp.io
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2016 5:08 PM
To: Space Utilization
Cc: Officers at quelab.net
Subject: Re: [Spacecadets] Rearranging at Quelab

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.