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Hi Yama...<br><br>See below for some suggestions...<br><br>Caryl<br>> Subject: Austin XO Lending Library<br>> <br>> I just applied to set up and run an XO lending library in Austin<br>> <br>> yop, crazy as charged...<br>> <br>> Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback, and especially figure out the good <br>> answer to these questions<br>> <br>> * how to keep the XOs safe<br>> (so far I would go for references, FOAFs - lacking that, some extreme <br>> case would involve some escrow setup)<br>Make it hard to "fence" with:<br>*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.<br>*Mark the outside of the case permanently and prominently with some type of very colorful indelible marker or paint.<br>*Mark inconspicuously inside the battery compartment.<br>*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. <br> <br>> <br>> * how to keep this away from sucking all the time and resources of <br>> people running it.<br>Good question...maybe long-term loans so the turnover would be slow. Ask borrowers to handle getting it to the next borrower?<br>> (I see having a 'mandatory donation' a possibility, or maybe outright <br>> charging a fee? a service will be provided...)<br>> <br>> * other Austin Pecans to help run this<br>> <br>> Ultimately some people could borrow a few, and then locally run their <br>> own "branch", dunno, many ideas<br></body>
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