[sudo-discuss] why i hate when people "clean up"

[Karissa McKelvey]

+1 to having everything that is for a particular use be marked and put into
a storage container.

The level of messiness in sudo room is also a primary turn off for myself
when it comes to working there.

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> someone "cleaned" the 3d printer table and now the guitar string that we
>> use to clear up clogs in the nozzle is missing.
>>
>> don't clean up something if you don't know how to use it!
>
>
> I disagree. If we were to not clean things up that we don't understand
> then most people would be very limited in what they can clean. This is not
> viable and I suspect that very few people are comfortable operating in as
> high a level of disorganization as you. I would say that the level of
> messiness in sudo room is the primary turn-off for myself when it comes to
> working there, even before "people will distract me from my work" which is
> mostly solvable with headphones.
>
> It is super frustrating when people move/trash useful stuff. This has
> definitely happened to me. The solution is to not leave anything unlabeled
> in the space that you care about. Either label the thing or put it in a
> container and label the container. Short pieces of guitar string is
> especially in need of labeling since it resembles trash to most people. The
> label should be clear enough that people will know what to do. E.g: Guitar
> string could be labeled as "3D printer head cleaner". Back in old sudo room
> I had labeled the guitar string by putting a piece of blue painter's tape
> around it and writing on it.
>
> Tools that are obvious to everyone as being useful and not up for hacking,
> like screwdrivers, should be labeled with just "sudo room". Bigger things
> should use labitrack.
>
> It would also really help if we establish a proper "aging shelf" where
> stuff is put on one shelf and then moved down every day or two until it
> reaches the bottom and is then thrown out. I think ideally we'd have at
> least one week of aging before something unlabeled is thrown out. I will
> try to set this up next time I am at sudo. This would also serve well as a
> lost and found, where the last shelf can be thought of as a free pile.
>
>
>> i'd rather have a functional 3d printer or soldering setup than a clean,
>> useless table.
>>
>
> We want a clean table AND a functional 3D printer.
>
>
>> i fixed the motor drivers on the type A machine 3d printer, now we just
>> need another guitar string to clean the nozzle and we're back in business.
>>
>
> Nice! Great to have the Type A back in action :D
>
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