Combatting Clutter - Revision history

Revphil: /* Getting Worse? */ handoff

2006-06-23T00:33:24Z

Getting Worse?: handoff

Rfs: /* Ubiquitous */

2006-03-25T17:03:31Z

Ubiquitous

Rfs at 16:56, 25 March 2006

2006-03-25T16:56:42Z

Dolly Llama: quote

2006-03-23T20:29:20Z

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Matteo: centered pic, for wide browsers

2006-01-16T20:56:29Z

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Rfs: /* Longer Term Strategies and Solutions */

2006-01-16T20:52:09Z

Longer Term Strategies and Solutions

Rfs: /* Longer Term Strategies and Solutions */

2006-01-16T20:51:41Z

Longer Term Strategies and Solutions

Rfs: /* Longer Term Strategies and Solutions */

2006-01-16T20:47:41Z

Longer Term Strategies and Solutions

Rfs: /* Solutions */

2006-01-16T20:41:56Z

Solutions

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 up. We are filling up all the space we have and have zero opportunity for physical expansion for at least the next year. This points to a
 faster increase in the incoming gizmo stream than in our ability to process the stuff.
 == Solutions ==

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 (None of this is intended to place blame on anyone.)
-* The staff lounge area of the staff lounge/kitchen has been unusable for months. (If it had been available last Wednesday night, we could
+* The staff lounge area of the staff lounge/kitchen has been unusable for months. (If it had been available last Wednesday night, we could have moved the board meeting there and not kicked out the perl mongers group that was scheduled to meet in the meeting room.)
-* The classroom is filled with all sorts of miscellaneous stuff. Multiple bicycles, random unused shelving, lots of chairs. The kids
+* The classroom is filled with all sorts of miscellaneous stuff. Multiple bicycles, random unused shelving, lots of chairs. The kids built a fort in one corner. There's a curtain that someone has hung, inconveniently blocking the light switch.
 * The lab has a lot of random overflow junk in it.
-* There are printers in the way of where the systems go on the shelves in the warehouse, pushing systems into the aisles and making it hard to
+* There are printers in the way of where the systems go on the shelves in the warehouse, pushing systems into the aisles and making it hard to get the printers out.
 I could go on with the examples, but don't need to. You can fill in the details for yourself.

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−	If we unbalance nature, humankind will suffer. Furthermore, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility towards others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy as, if not healthier than we found it. This is not quite such a difficult proposition as it might sound. For although there is a limit to what we as individuals can do, there is no limit to what a universal response might achieve.	+	{\| cellspacing="3"
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		+	\|width="80%" style="border: 1px solid #c6c9ff; color: #000; background-color: #f0f0ff"\|If we unbalance nature, humankind will suffer. Furthermore, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility towards others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy as, if not healthier than we found it. This is not quite such a difficult proposition as it might sound. For although there is a limit to what we as individuals can do, there is no limit to what a universal response might achieve.
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		+	''-- The Dalai Lama''

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	== A Board Member Speaks ==		== A Board Member Speaks ==

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		+	If we unbalance nature, humankind will suffer. Furthermore, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility towards others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy as, if not healthier than we found it. This is not quite such a difficult proposition as it might sound. For although there is a limit to what we as individuals can do, there is no limit to what a universal response might achieve.
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		+	- The Dalai Lama
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	== A Board Member Speaks ==		== A Board Member Speaks ==

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 === Longer Term Strategies and Solutions ===
 [[Image:Vol-don.png|center|Volunteers Working to Donations Ratio, Quarter by Quarter]]
 * '''Adding more build volunteers''' would probably help as well, but that doesn't seem to be as much of a problem right now as the shortage of adoption volunteers.

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	Neither the ''more time'' nor the ''more space'' option work unless there are more volunteers to process the stuff.		Neither the ''more time'' nor the ''more space'' option work unless there are more volunteers to process the stuff.
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 === Longer Term Strategies and Solutions ===
 [[Image:Vol-don.png|left|Volunteers Working to Donations Ratio, Quarter by Quarter]]
-* '''Recruit more adoption volunteers.''' These folks are the work horses that move stuff through the Geek. Looking at the number of donations per volunteer, year by year from the database, it appears that the ratio started to drop slightly in 2005. (The last month shows a very steep and alarming decline, but we might see that every year in January.) Adding more adoption volunteers to the mix will help us process stuff faster.
+* '''Recruit more adoption volunteers.''' These folks are the work horses that move stuff through the Geek. Looking at the number of volunteers per donations, quarter by quarter from the database, it appears that the ratio has dropped steadily throughout our history. Adding more adoption volunteers to the mix will help us process stuff faster.
 * '''More space.''' Free Geek is stuck with the size we have for now. But there are some opportunities to grow larger in the long run. We could take over the neighbors space (upstairs above the warehouse) when their lease is up at the end of 2006. We could eventually ask our upstairs tenants above the meeting room and monkeyhouse to move elsewhere. Each of these would require more rent money and probably more staff to cover additional space and neither can take place right now.

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	[[Image:Vol-don.png\|left\|Volunteers Working to Donations Ratio, Quarter by Quarter]]		[[Image:Vol-don.png\|left\|Volunteers Working to Donations Ratio, Quarter by Quarter]]
	* '''Recruit more adoption volunteers.''' These folks are the work horses that move stuff through the Geek. Looking at the number of donations per volunteer, year by year from the database, it appears that the ratio started to drop slightly in 2005. (The last month shows a very steep and alarming decline, but we might see that every year in January.) Adding more adoption volunteers to the mix will help us process stuff faster.		* '''Recruit more adoption volunteers.''' These folks are the work horses that move stuff through the Geek. Looking at the number of donations per volunteer, year by year from the database, it appears that the ratio started to drop slightly in 2005. (The last month shows a very steep and alarming decline, but we might see that every year in January.) Adding more adoption volunteers to the mix will help us process stuff faster.
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		+	* '''More space.''' Free Geek is stuck with the size we have for now. But there are some opportunities to grow larger in the long run. We could take over the neighbors space (upstairs above the warehouse) when their lease is up at the end of 2006. We could eventually ask our upstairs tenants above the meeting room and monkeyhouse to move elsewhere. Each of these would require more rent money and probably more staff to cover additional space and neither can take place right now.
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		+	* '''More time.''' Free Geek could open on another day of the week (Monday or Sunday), or for more hours per day and therefore be processing donations more time during the week. This would require more staff to cover the additional time open, so there's a cost associated with this option as well.
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		+	Neither the ''more time'' nor the ''more space'' option work unless there are more volunteers to process the stuff.

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 in to the idea and tries to make this work:
 * A '''cleaning party''':
   I would be happy to organize a cleaning party some weekend, but I  worry
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 * Keep trying to '''make receiving and recycling more efficient.''' We can't grow the space and we've done a lot already, but anything that makes stuff move faster and more efficiently through the mothership will help out here.
 I'm sure there is more that can be added to this list. (Please do.) I may have even had points that I lost in my laptop crash.
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 All the above stuff everyone can help do. Any one person trying to tackle this will find themselves in a vey quixotic world very fast however.
-If we all pull together it's a different story.
+=== Longer Term Strategies and Solutions ===