Smashtacular

(as discussed at the Financial Optimization Meeting by Jhasen and .)

Impact: Medium Effort: Easy

Summary
The Smashtacular is an open to the public event where people can come and pay us to smash printers.

Thought process

 * 1) How does it further FREE GEEK's mission?
 * 2) * It makes printers smaller and recycling them easier
 * 3) * Raises public awareness of recycling
 * 4) Will it go with our culture, or meet resistance?
 * 5) * The printers in question were already destined for recycling, so there's no question of waste.
 * 6) * We like to think Free Geek's culture is fun-friendly.
 * 7) How would we go about measuring the impact?
 * 8) * Simple math. This equipment currently brings us $0.


 * 1) Who would be involved?
 * 2) * Because of the possibility of injury, we only want this to be overseen by staff. The Smashtaculars would be held regularly, perhaps monthly or fortnightly.
 * 3) * Oversight, materials collection, cleanup: Jhasen and other staff
 * 4) * Promotion: Jhasen and volunteers
 * 5) * Goading: RevPhil
 * 6) What kind of budget would it require?
 * 7) * ads or copies for outreach
 * 8) * possibly: film for polaroid camera*
 * 9) What would our first steps be? How soon should we start them?
 * 10) * First step: outreach
 * 11) * Also: saving printers.
 * 12) * We should start in about two weeks.
 * 13) How soon can it be completely in place and functioning?
 * 14) * As soon as the first smashtacular can happen - 2 weeks?
 * 15) How and when would we measure if it's helping?
 * 16) * It should be immediately clear!
 * 17) Was the preliminary impact/effort rating accurate?
 * 18) * YEAH OK

PROPOSAL
We should start outreach and preparation for a Smashtacular ASAP and use our experience from that one to plan for the next.

If there's a polaroid camera available, we'd like to set aside any money from the first few events to purchase polaroid film as an additional income source.