[Noisebridge-discuss] more free junk!

[jim]

+1 
   i'll try to figure out some kind of rotation 
schem
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 13:28 -0700, Rubin Abdi wrote:
> Hi Michael.
> 
> After the last truck load of e-waste was picked through and hauled off 
> last night, I was pretty happy to think that what was left over was more 
> or less the cream of the crop (though it was a very small percentage 
> left over) and that I wouldn't have to spend more time picking through 
> piles and piles of junk at Noisebridge then actually hacking on some 
> sort of hardware I found.
> 
> Sorting through dozens of broken optical drives to locate 1 functional 
> DVD burner is very counter productive and sometimes so intimidating that 
> giving up and buying my needed supplies seems simpler. My thoughts were 
> that now we've (mostly) reset the hack pile and have gotten an 
> understand of the difference between "oh this stuff is totally hackable 
> someone will eventually hack on it" and "no one will most likely waste 
> their time on fixing this" members and guests will be a little bit more 
> cautious about what things may or may not be useful to the group. And I 
> feel now that we've got an "exit plan" for anything we don't want 
> through e-waste pickup, it'll be easier for folks to look at something, 
> decide that it possibly shouldn't have come into the space in the first 
> place and toss it into the e-waste pile to be picked up in a month or 
> taken to someone's home.
> 
> Michael Shiloh wrote, On 2009/10/03 12:12:
> > I've been carefully sorting out the tons of stuff that pass through my
> > hands, selecting items that I'm pretty sure will be useful, and in all
> > cases, asking via email first if anyone wants these items.
> >
> > In addition, I always state in my email that if there is anything left
> > over after everyone has picked over the collection, I will take
> > responsibility for  recycling and/or disposing of these items. I fully
> > understand how a place like NB could easily become a dumping ground for
> > everyone's unwanted items, and I have no intention of using NB as such.
> 
> I just want to thank you for having the attitude that you have towards 
> donating items and that it means a lot to me that you feel it's your 
> responsibility to make sure what you do donate gets used in some sort of 
> way and doesn't eventually turn into cruft. I hope more and more members 
> adopt this way of thinking when they plan to donate things to the space.
> 
> I also wanted to apologize to you for the comment I did make to Zedd 
> when I saw him place more pc towers in the e-waste pile that's sitting 
> in the elevator room. After picking through, sorting out, and moving 
> donated items that we've had in the space for almost a year and finally 
> having it get hauled off, being completely drained from the past two 
> months of build out, getting to be extremely flustered with the 
> unexcellent attitued folks have been sharing on and off this list, and 
> the fact that I had just allow myself to drink for the night, I let some 
> pretty nasty words fly for a minute. I'm sorry if you found that all 
> offensive and I hope you can understand that it wasn't with any ill 
> intent or hate.
> 
> Again thank you for your donations and sorry for being a dick head at 
> that moment in time. I think you're quite an awesome person for thinking 
> through your donations.
>