[Grassroots-l] Austin XO Lending Library

[whurley]

what are you using the XOs for? I guess I'm missing the point here.
Sorry could be low on sleep but I'm not understanding what the goal of
the library is?

-whurley



On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yama at netoso.com> wrote:
> I just applied to set up and run an XO lending library in Austin
>
> yop, crazy as charged...
>
> Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback, and especially figure out the good
> answer to these questions
>
> * how to keep the XOs safe
> (so far I would go for references, FOAFs - lacking that, some extreme case
> would involve some escrow setup)
>
> * how to keep this away from sucking all the time and resources of people
> running it.
> (I see having a 'mandatory donation' a possibility, or maybe outright
> charging a fee? a service will be provided...)
>
> * other Austin Pecans to help run this
>
> Ultimately some people could borrow a few, and then locally run their own
> "branch", dunno, many ideas
>



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