[Noisebridge-discuss] Save the sewing

[Shannon Lee]

Here's the deal.

Nobody minds anybody bringing in your own gear, but if you leave it in
public space, it will get used, abused, taken apart, turned into a giant
robot, broken, repaired, reconfigured and melted into slag, and nobody will
offer to re-imburse you in any way.

The point is, we don't have a mechanism for tracking "who owns what thing"
other than "it's on your shelf."  If we did have that mechanism, we don't
have any way to force anybody to follow it, because we don't really have
rules.  Bring your stuff in at your own risk.

--S

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:

> 2009/8/14 Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>:
> > There's an ancient (in Noisebridge-years) policy against people loaning
> > things to Noisebridge as opposed to donating them.
>
> I'm not willing to donate the machine; I like it and want to continue
> using it if I happen to go elsewhere. However, I don't particularly
> mind using it at Noisebridge, and it might as well get used by y'all
> instead of sitting in my closet between uses. I can understand the
> reasons you mentioned, but this is what I'm offering.
>
> Re. the damage issue: it'd be possible to set up a fund to pay for
> minor damages to loaned equipment, consider the use of it effectively
> something like a pretty low rental fee, and not accept loans that have
> plausible damages more than some reasonable limit. Or people could
> simply be excellent and fix / replace things they break. *shrug*
>
> I'll abstain from any other discussion of whether the rule ought to be
> changed; just suggesting one possible mitigation.
>
> - Sai
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