[dorkbotsea-blabber] DorkSwap proposal

[Laura MacCary]

And in between there could be stuff that's not technically for sale, but a
donation (to the venue, for instance) is requested.
 
I don't see a need for a limit to the amount of stuff. Bill Beaty did a
whole yard sale to benefit CoCA (if I recall correctly) a couple of years
ago.
 
And I agree that if people have the option of selling, we might see things
we've been hoping to find...
 
To my mind, dorkbot is not so highly structured that we need to plan ahead
how to do this. If people just brought stuff & said what they wanted to do
(sell, swap, or donation requested, etc.), that month's meeting's
organizer(s) would probably have ideas for how to work it in. If it turned
out to be complicated somehow, then we can adopt a policy for the future if
need be. If it's really a zoo we could just do it once or twice a year, but
I'll bet it'll be manageable to just let people bring stuff as the need
strikes.
 
Just one opinion,
Laura
 


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Why not allow people to sell stuff? I don't see how it would complicate
things, and it would mean a much broader range of things that people might
bring...


On 7/28/07, Wim Lewis <wiml at hhhh.org> wrote: 

A few people have posted for-sale or for-free ads to the dorkbot list 
lately. How do people feel about having some sort of swap-your-junk
table at a future dorkbot? Or, if it goes well, as a regular feature
of dorkbot-seattle? I often have random dorkular things I'm not going
to be using again, but which are either too small or too odd to get
rid of in other ways. Putting the handful of obsolete-but-unused PICs
in my junk drawer on eBay would just be silly.

I'd suggest ground rules like: 
    - If someone else doesn't want it, YOU MUST TAKE IT BACK. I don't
think 911MAC or the Seattle Dorkbot Steering Overlords want to be
stuck with hauling everybody's unwanted stuff to the dump each month. 
    - All stuff free-to-good-home; selling stuff would get too
complicated
    - Maybe some limit on how much you can bring (a box or two), just
to keep things sane

What do y'all think? Any input from the Secret Masters of Dorkbotsea? 


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