[Grassroots-l] Austin XO Lending Library

[Edward Cherlin]

Make the borrower's fee include insurance.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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