Hi Yama... See below for some suggestions...
Caryl > Subject: Austin XO Lending Library > > I just applied to set up and run an XO lending library in Austin > > yop, crazy as charged... > > Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback, and especially figure out the good > answer to these questions > > * how to keep the XOs safe > (so far I would go for references, FOAFs - lacking that, some extreme > case would involve some escrow setup) Make it hard to "fence" with: *Lots of publicity so everyone in town (or TX) knows what the XO looks like and that it is supposed to be with the lending library. Show a marked machine in the pictures (TV coverage too) so that Contributor's and G1G1 donors won't get hasseled. *Mark the outside of the case permanently and prominently with some type of very colorful indelible marker or paint. *Mark inconspicuously inside the battery compartment. *Require that borrowers fill out a form citing responsibility for the machine while it is checked out to them and promising to replace it "in kind" if it is lost, stolen. or damaged due to negligence. > > * how to keep this away from sucking all the time and resources of > people running it. Good question...maybe long-term loans so the turnover would be slow. Ask borrowers to handle getting it to the next borrower? > (I see having a 'mandatory donation' a possibility, or maybe outright > charging a fee? a service will be provided...) > > * other Austin Pecans to help run this > > Ultimately some people could borrow a few, and then locally run their > own "branch", dunno, many ideas
_______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
