[Grassroots-l] Austin XO Lending Library

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Yama...

See below for some suggestions...

Caryl
> Subject: Austin XO Lending Library
> 
> 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)
Make it hard to "fence" with:
*Lots of publicity so everyone in town (or TX) knows what the XO looks like and that it is supposed to be with the lending library. Show a marked machine in the pictures (TV coverage too) so that Contributor's and G1G1 donors won't get hasseled.
*Mark the outside of the case permanently  and prominently with some type of very colorful indelible marker or paint.
*Mark inconspicuously inside the battery compartment.
*Require that borrowers fill out a form citing responsibility for the machine while it is checked out to them and promising to replace it "in kind" if it is lost, stolen. or damaged due to negligence. 
 
> 
> * how to keep this away from sucking all the time and resources of 
> people running it.
Good question...maybe long-term loans so the turnover would be slow.  Ask borrowers to handle getting it to the next borrower?
> (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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