19 Jun
2013
19 Jun
'13
2:35 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
looks good in here - thanks to whoever spent some time
on it recently...are people still talking about cubbies or was that shot down conclusively
or is it just lacking the initiative to procure? Any objections to putting that
unassembled rack shelving up to the right of the milliscope? I see a pretty wicked arcade
box coming together too...good to be back.
Hol, will you be around later today? I have a lot of ideas for use of
the space and would like to collaborate with you on it. I haven't been
around the past couple weeks because of transportation issues (lost my
car) but will try my best to make it there today.
In particular, Romy and I bought that 5-shelf heavy duty set for the
closet. It is meant to be the first of several such units (this one
being only a test). My vision is that after we assemble a few of those
in the far corner of the closet (to the left of the radio room) all
the crap can go on those, and then in the newly cleared space we can
stack those grey metal boxes as lockers - the ones I originally wanted
to bolt to the wall. All we need to do is replace the locks on those!
They are big but I figure people can share them for a flat rate per
box.
I'm less enthusiastic about having shelving out in the common area. I
think we should try to better use the vertical space in the closet and
let the common area be nice, clean working and meeting spaces.
19 Jun
19 Jun
4:22 p.m.
New subject: state of the room
Hey Jordan,
I'll be there in about 45 minutes, but just for a bit to grab a 12V pump I tested at
lunch for the Garden Sentry. Will you be there in that timeframe? I assembled the 5-tier
shelf, skipping a tier to accommodate large objects. It seems to be of sound
construction, and it could still be bolted to the wall for safety if we start stacking
them 1.5 high. At the OMI shop erik bolted a similar one directly to the wall with no
support from below and so far it has withstood moderate loads. I commend your continued
efforts to optimize the space and would like to brainstorm with you soon, maybe next week
if you're not around when I drop by this afternoon. It would be nice to combine
things from our supply shelves into more useful configurations, like continuing the trend
of actually putting together the various computer parts that we have into actual working
terminals, maybe put a bank of them out in the common area for shared use by the public
school. As for AC adapters I think alot of those will be distributed as supplies for mesh
nodes so that takes care of that. Some of the more mechanical/pneumatic stuff could go to
the OMI shop once it's rearranged and is hosting active projects that need hardware (i
recommend anyone interested in open hardware get on the OMI mailing list - they usually
have workparties saturday afternoons) more than can be hosted at sudo room. I see alot of
space that's taken up in orphaned projects too, but I know it can be a long time
between work sessions so looking at the unused consumables/materials/misc donations as the
first order of clearing or storaging makes sense to me. We do have those filing cabinets
that could be used as cubbies with no additional investment in time, other than installing
latches and/or locks if we're going to charge for them. +1 on having clean working
spaces. It's much better to clean up your own projects than someon else's - not
just for you but for the person who would otherwise have to track down all the pieces they
left out. I see good turnover in the milk crate cubby system for the most part so
that's been a big plus. Maybe if we charge for lockers, the amount of space should be
bigger than a milk crate. Or we could reduce the number of milk crate cubbies and use the
crates for beer bottles ;) or misc wires. Anyway I think we're converging pretty well
on an organized layout thanks to do-ocratic reorganizing of sudo room
cheers,
hol
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