Thrift Store Agenda

Thrift Store Working Group Meeting 11/24/10

Facilitator: Leah Scribe: Paco

Present:

Old Commits

1. Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP ++ - waiting for a response from technocrats
2. Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
3. Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it. - IP
4. Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay. - IP
5. Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos. - IP
6. Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'data. - IP
7. Sales team COMMITS to deciding the purpose of the Sales meetings. IP added to discussion
8. Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP ++ - waiting for a response from technocrats
9. Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
10. Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
11. Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it. - IP
12. Leah COMMITS to showing the HTML request page to everyone, and to getting it populated.
13. Paco COMMITS to looking at the pricing sheet and changing it.
14. Michael COMMITS to looking at pricing on hard drives.
15. Sergio commits to adding us to the AT list. We all need to email him from the addresses we want added on.
16. Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay. - IP
17. Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos. - IP
18. Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'data. - IP

Carryover Discussion

1. Hard drive pricing - It seems like there are lots of deals happening where large capacity hard drives are selling for cheap. We should probably re-evaluate how we price them - Michael COMMITS to looking at pricing on hard drives.

Discussion

1. Would it help to have more instructional material in the store, for example howto set up a wireless router? Ian 21:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
2. I think we aren't geting many low-end systems because of the new distro. Are we recycling them? Can we sell them with other distros? Ian 21:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
3. How to use coupon in the database. How to enter Chinook book coupons with volunteers and non-volunteers. Ian 21:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
4. Can we please abolish sticker labels for our burned cds? Ian 21:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
5. Can we order static bags? Ian 21:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
6. Do we still want to meet every week or is this too often? If so, how often should we meet? Also when do we want our reminders to come out?
7. 64 bit installations on machines could start happening soon. How will this affect sales?