[Noisebridge-discuss] Call for discussion: the noisebridge "equipment lending library"

[Shannon Lee]

I've been making noises about having the Build Team meet to talk about how
to manage this stuff, but it's not gotten out of hand enough yet for me to
actually Do Anything :)

Maybe the build team should meet, say, 6:00 Friday, before the shop class,
and talk about how to both better organize the workspaces so that tools live
where people expect them to be, and to figure out how to organize a regular
cleanup / put-to-rights rota?

--S

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM, meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think we're getting dangerously close to needing a dedicated shop
> manager. I've been noticing a lot of tool walkabout in the fishbowl as well
> as upstairs; as well as a few tools used  or stored incorrectly (and please
> don't take that as a grumpy complaint. Learning is what we're here for..).
> Having someone 'in charge' of keeping materials stores and expendables
> stocked would svelte the shops and lendables a lot.
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think that got rolled up in the book lending library which Stella and
>> someone else was working on.
>>
>> Christie
>>
>> ---
>> "I want us all to think about new and creative ways to engage young people
>> in science and engineering, whether it's science festivals, robotics
>> competitions, fairs that encourage young people to create and build and
>> invent -- to be makers of things, not just consumers of things."
>>
>> - President Obama in address to National Academy of Sciences April 27,
>> 2009
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A few months ago, Bill Nye (_a_ science guy, not _the_ science guy)
>>> was kind enough to offer out his PA system for loan via noisebridge.
>>> There was a bit of discussion about this before the DIYbio dust-up,
>>> and we wound up removing it from meeting agendas in the name of
>>> expediency.  We (err, mostly Jean and myself) then took Bill up on his
>>> offer and used the PA for a project in other warehouse spaces.  We're
>>> done with it now, and have returned the setup to the space (it's up
>>> under the windows).
>>>
>>> This means that it is once again time to examine the proposal: how
>>> about a noisebridge equipment lending library, allowing people to
>>> "check out" pieces of equipment to be used outside the space?  What
>>> equipment would be a part of it, how would we manage it, etc?
>>>
>>> I'm not so interested in leading (or even participating in) the
>>> discussion, but am fairly certain others here would be.  So, this is
>>> me, once again, starting a ball rolling, then trying desperately to
>>> get out of its way.
>>>
>>> Roll on,
>>> --
>>> Josh Myer   650.248.3796
>>>  josh at joshisanerd.com
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Shannon Lee
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