@members the time has come to reclaim the now-aptly-titled Snug.
The Plan
The plan is to empty the contents of the Snug into the Messy workshop – this of course will cause some disruption, meaning all activities except laser cutting will be on hold for a period, so we aim to get this done over the course of the Weekend of Jan 13th and 14th and the following week @metaltechs @silkscreentechs this will need your indulgence.
It will involve a process of sorting, cataloguing and getting rid of as much as we can. We’ll set up a Wiki page with images and descriptions of what we find and a range of options for members to act on, and we’re looking for suggestions of how to catalogue/track items from now on.
Your stuff
We know that there’s a fair number of stalled/abandoned members’ projects and other belongings, such as loaned items – we’re going to be asking everyone to claim and collect stuff as soon as possible: you don’t have to wait till the weekend! If you’re in mid project and have a current Storage Request than you will not be required to remove your materials, but you might not find them where you left them. If you’re out of the country or have other mitigating circumstances, you’ll be given leeway.
Your stuff is at risk of being removed from the space if you don’t claim it, especially if we’re unable to identify it.
Calling all techs!
We’re asking all the tech areas to make a case for anything they want to have stored in future, but we want anything stored in the Snug to really justify its value to the Makerspace – any spare space in the Snug can potentially be put to expanding our activities…welding and full-bed CNC have been in the air for a long time now*.
Then what?
With a clear Snug we should pause and plan how and where to better store members’ projects and essential Makerspace property: more shelving?– is there a typical project size to base this around? Bays for timbers/sheets etc to stand up?
We plan to keep project storage going, but will have a more rigorous approach to length of storage to make best use of limited space – and a friendly prompt can sometimes help us get a stalled project going again.
More details?
That’s the heads up – more to follow about the nuts and bolts of it all in the next few days.
That asterisk
*future use of the Snug for any purposes depends on solving issues around fire safety, and consensus among members about renovating the structure – essential if we’re carrying out noisy activities out of hours – and what future activities we support in there.
Important note
From past experience ‘one person’s junk is another’s treasure’. We’re taking a robust stand to our innate talent for hoarding, but in the past this has gone too far – valuable items have been discarded and we’ve had to pay to replace them. So as much as possible check on Discourse before discarding anything that could conceivably have a use for someone. This doesn’t mean we’ll keep it of course, but it’s a safety net.
Some of the long-standing members can be called upon to help identify stuff from the murky past. We’ll make a list to consult, but @tomnewsom @unknowndomain and me @Dermot are a good starting place.
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