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color=#0000ff size=2>And in between there could be stuff that's not technically
for sale, but a donation (to the venue, for instance) is
requested.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>And I agree that if people have the option of selling, we
might see things we've been hoping to find...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=007510505-29072007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Just one opinion,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Laura</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
dorkbotsea-blabber-bounces@music.columbia.edu
[mailto:dorkbotsea-blabber-bounces@music.columbia.edu] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Mike Payson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 28, 2007 7:30 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
A discussion list for dorkbot-sea<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [dorkbotsea-blabber]
DorkSwap proposal<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>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...<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 7/28/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Wim
Lewis</B> <<A href="mailto:wiml@hhhh.org">wiml@hhhh.org</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">A
few people have posted for-sale or for-free ads to the dorkbot list
<BR>lately. How do people feel about having some sort of
swap-your-junk<BR>table at a future dorkbot? Or, if it goes well, as a
regular feature<BR>of dorkbot-seattle? I often have random dorkular things
I'm not going<BR>to be using again, but which are either too small or too
odd to get<BR>rid of in other ways. Putting the handful of
obsolete-but-unused PICs<BR>in my junk drawer on eBay would just be
silly.<BR><BR>I'd suggest ground rules like: <BR> -
If someone else doesn't want it, YOU MUST TAKE IT BACK. I don't<BR>think
911MAC or the Seattle Dorkbot Steering Overlords want to be<BR>stuck with
hauling everybody's unwanted stuff to the dump each month.
<BR> - All stuff free-to-good-home; selling stuff
would get too<BR>complicated<BR> - Maybe some limit
on how much you can bring (a box or two), just<BR>to keep things
sane<BR><BR>What do y'all think? Any input from the Secret Masters of
Dorkbotsea?
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people doing strange things with
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