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From Terry W:

The general gist of the rules is that a unnaccounted for piece of material (homeless stuff) out on the shop floor should be Marked with a month and put in the Lost & Found and publicized as best as you can, after one month anyone can move the item from L&F to Graveyard, where it can be claimed as salvage by anyone, then someone not specified can "clean out the graveyard"


Here are my list of issues, please feel free to comment, argue, or add to the list.

1) Lost and found seems much too small to accomodate the items we need to handle, like a project or a piece of equipment.  IIUC, L&F is the 18 inch x 48 inch top of a storage closet, where things like business cards and magazines are currently kept.  Take a look at what made it to the Graveyard, it cant' nearly fit in that area, unless I am mistaken about where the L&F is.

2)  We need to be more precise about the procedures on clearing out the Graveyard.  How long should we age an item in the Graveyard?  Can anyone disposing of an aged item by throwing it in the dumpster?  I know there are certain areas of the graveyard that need special handling disposal.  Let's list that in the wiki and mark the area and tell people when an item should go to that particular spot of the graveyard.

3) Sometimes we have homeless stuff on the shop floor that are too big or too heavy to get to a L&F area. What do we do then?

4) What constitutes homeless stuff and what other types of stuff should be out on the floor (i.e. discuss Parking Permits)

5) What should a person do when an expired Parking Permit is still sitting on the shop floor?

6) What does a person do when they see something that doesn't look abandoned?  Discuss "Where does this go" boxes and indicate which zones have them.  Also talk about same for large items, i.e. we have 4 bags of cement on the shop floor, I want to get them where they should be, but I have no use for them.  WHat do I do?

7)  If a member, or someone who contacts a memeber want to "donate" an item, what should the member do?  Should they make the decision to allow/refuse on their own, if not to whom do they ask? With the above, any special rules, like "No CRTs" should be written on this page.

Thanks.  Please discuss.  Are these the right issues?  Are these documented elsewhere?  If so, do they need pointers here?  Again, I am not looking to create a set of Draconian rules, but the member who wants to do the right thing for homeless stuff on the floor needs to be able to find what the "right thing" is.

BTW is this how we are supposed to discuss policy issues?  I am fine with this, but is the membership?