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Thrift Store Meeting 11/10/10
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Thrift Store Working Group Meeting 11/17/10
  
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Facilitator: Sergio Garcia
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Facilitator: Michael
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Scribe: Michael Millar
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Scribe: Leah
  
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Present: Ian, Paco, Michael M., Sergio, eBeth, Santiago
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Present: Michael, Leah, Paco, Sergio
  
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Note: Leah couldn't make it. Also, there wasn't enough time to go over th=
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Note: Ian was on vacation.
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old commits so they are a carryover from the previous meeting.
 
  
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=3D=3D=3DOld Commits:=3D=3D=3D
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===Old Commits===
  
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# Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP + - waiting for
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#Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP ++ - waiting for a response from technocrats
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a response from technocrats
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#Sergio will join drop box. - DONE
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# Sergio will join drop box.
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#All of us will figure out what we want to keep for the museum. IP + - DONE
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# All of us will figure out what we want to keep for the museum. IP +
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#Francisco and Sergio will make a Store box in Mac Land. IP - DONE
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# Francisco and Sergio will make a Store box in Mac Land. IP
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#Ian COMMITS to send an email to receiving to communicate the policy on software and make sure the policy on the wiki is current. - DONE
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# Ian COMMITS to send an email to receiving to communicate the policy on
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#Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
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software and make sure the policy on the wiki is current.
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#Leah COMMITS to looking into the new intern. - DONE
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# Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us.
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#Ian COMMITS to letting receiving know that we no longer want internal card readers without cables. - DONE
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# Leah COMMITS to looking into the new intern.
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#Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it. - IP
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# Ian COMMITS to letting receiving know that we no longer want internal
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#Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay. - IP
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card readers without cables.
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#Leah COMMITS to talking to tech support to find out the simple problems that maybe we can help people know how to solve during the actual computer sale. Also Leah will find out how the manual is working for people if at all. - DONE
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# Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it.
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#Leah COMMITS to email schedule at to have the sales meeting added to next week. - KILLED
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# Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop part=
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#Sergio COMMITS to putting new limits on processor testing to the production comittee. - DONE
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#Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos. - IP
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on ebay.
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#Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'data. - IP
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# Leah COMMITS to talking to tech support to find out the simple problems
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#Sales team COMMITS to deciding the purpose of the Sales meetings. IP added to discussion
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that maybe we can help people know how to solve during the actual compute=
 
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sale. Also Leah will find out how the manual is working for people if at
 
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all.
 
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# Leah COMMITS to email schedule at to have the sales meeting added to
 
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next week.
 
  
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=3D=3D=3DDiscussion (General business):=3D=3D=3D
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===Discussion===
  
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# Other gizmo testing: (digital cameras, pdas, external optical drives,
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# HTML page with store request of gizmos from advanced testing - carry over. - DONE just needs to be populated. Leah COMMITS to showing the HTML request page to everyone, and to getting it populated.
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etc) it seems that there has been a high failure rate in tested gizmos
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# Extending Warranty, dropping prices.  Battery testing causes lots of problems, seems to be the main reason that things are exchanged.  Even if we refine this we won't be able to guarantee them ever.  Also we don't have exact statistics.  We should revisit this topic when we get better long term details. Maybe we should just drop prices for now.  Looks have a big effect on how much people will pay for things.  PROPOSAL - We could lower the impact specs have on the price, and raise the impact looks have.  Price up for big slogans like Intel dual core, or core 2 duo. APPROVED - Paco COMMITS to looking at the pricing sheet and changing it.
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recently. Suggested that there should be a return box for these items.
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# Holiday sale - PROPOSAL - We want to extend warranties for any system bought in December so that they start on Jan 1st.  APPROVED
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Would advise that customer return labels be attached to each returned ite=
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# 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.
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# Sales team purpose. - What did we think about the meeting last week? It seems a good idea to keep in communication with online sales about stuff we may receive that should go over there or vice versa. We want to be able to exchange reports about how much we're making.  Also these meetings are a good opportunity for requests for changes in the stream. We want to keep it simple and concise - each area can figure out what to do with requests on their own.  Attendees should be the regular store working group people plus online sales. In order get info about advanced testing stuff we should all be added to the mailing list. Sergio commits to adding us to the AT list.  We all need to email him from the addresses we want added on.
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to more easily troubleshoot. As of this time, it is unclear what the
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parameters for gizmo testing are. Advised that there be some guidance and
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===New Commits===
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monitoring on data wiping for said devices. Primary issue is creating a
 
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system for testing special devices in the long term.
 
  
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# Report on cell phone sales to our new recycling vendor Wireless
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#Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP ++ - waiting for a response from technocrats
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Alliance: there is currently no one to test phones. Suggested that all
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#Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
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fancy phones (Blackberry etc.) be sent to online sales to be sold as is.
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#Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
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#Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it. - IP
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# Sampling Ram & CPU sales on eBay and in the store: Deciding what to do
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#Leah COMMITS to showing the HTML request page to everyone, and to getting it populated.
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with various pieces of online sales items that we have a surplus of.
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#Paco COMMITS to looking at the pricing sheet and changing it.
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Discussion on range of prices for CPUs and RAM based on previous sales as
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#Michael COMMITS to looking at pricing on hard drives.
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well as criteria to price especially valuable scraptops. Suggested that w=
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#Sergio commits to adding us to the AT list.  We all need to email him from the addresses we want added on.
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#Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay. - IP
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sell processors no slower than 2.4 or 2.5 Ghz. Suggested that we no longe=
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#Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos. - IP
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#Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'data. - IP
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supply 128Mb of RAM sticks.
 
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# HTML page with store request of gizmos from advanced testing - carry o=
 
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ver.
 
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# KILLED - We got a best of Portland Award!
 
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# What should we do in Sales Committee meetings? Some of us are new to
 
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this: Talk about that in the halls unless we have time for it next week.
 
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# Adding a Scraptop-As-Is (Mac) category to sales as per Michael W's
 
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email: Sergio will e-mail technocrats.
 
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=3D=3D=3DNew Commits:=3D=3D=3D
 
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# Sergio COMMITS to putting new limits on processor testing to the
 
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production comittee.
 
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# Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos.
 
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# Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'
 
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data.
 
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# Sales team COMMITS to deciding the purpose of the Sales meetings.
 

Revision as of 13:36, 18 November 2010

Thrift Store Working Group Meeting 11/17/10

Facilitator: Michael Scribe: Leah

Present: Michael, Leah, Paco, Sergio

Note: Ian was on vacation.

Old Commits

  1. Paco will email technocrats to get a new eyes login. IP ++ - waiting for a response from technocrats
  2. Sergio will join drop box. - DONE
  3. All of us will figure out what we want to keep for the museum. IP + - DONE
  4. Francisco and Sergio will make a Store box in Mac Land. IP - DONE
  5. Ian COMMITS to send an email to receiving to communicate the policy on software and make sure the policy on the wiki is current. - DONE
  6. Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
  7. Leah COMMITS to looking into the new intern. - DONE
  8. Ian COMMITS to letting receiving know that we no longer want internal card readers without cables. - DONE
  9. Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it. - IP
  10. Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay. - IP
  11. Leah COMMITS to talking to tech support to find out the simple problems that maybe we can help people know how to solve during the actual computer sale. Also Leah will find out how the manual is working for people if at all. - DONE
  12. Leah COMMITS to email schedule at to have the sales meeting added to next week. - KILLED
  13. Sergio COMMITS to putting new limits on processor testing to the production comittee. - DONE
  14. Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos. - IP
  15. Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'data. - IP
  16. Sales team COMMITS to deciding the purpose of the Sales meetings. IP added to discussion

Discussion

  1. HTML page with store request of gizmos from advanced testing - carry over. - DONE just needs to be populated. Leah COMMITS to showing the HTML request page to everyone, and to getting it populated.
  2. Extending Warranty, dropping prices. Battery testing causes lots of problems, seems to be the main reason that things are exchanged. Even if we refine this we won't be able to guarantee them ever. Also we don't have exact statistics. We should revisit this topic when we get better long term details. Maybe we should just drop prices for now. Looks have a big effect on how much people will pay for things. PROPOSAL - We could lower the impact specs have on the price, and raise the impact looks have. Price up for big slogans like Intel dual core, or core 2 duo. APPROVED - Paco COMMITS to looking at the pricing sheet and changing it.
  3. Holiday sale - PROPOSAL - We want to extend warranties for any system bought in December so that they start on Jan 1st. APPROVED
  4. 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.
  5. Sales team purpose. - What did we think about the meeting last week? It seems a good idea to keep in communication with online sales about stuff we may receive that should go over there or vice versa. We want to be able to exchange reports about how much we're making. Also these meetings are a good opportunity for requests for changes in the stream. We want to keep it simple and concise - each area can figure out what to do with requests on their own. Attendees should be the regular store working group people plus online sales. In order get info about advanced testing stuff we should all be added to the mailing list. Sergio commits to adding us to the AT list. We all need to email him from the addresses we want added on.

New 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. Paco COMMITS to look at sales trends and get back to us. IP
  4. Ian COMMITS to cleaning the safari policy page up and finalizing it. - IP
  5. Leah COMMITS to showing the HTML request page to everyone, and to getting it populated.
  6. Paco COMMITS to looking at the pricing sheet and changing it.
  7. Michael COMMITS to looking at pricing on hard drives.
  8. Sergio commits to adding us to the AT list. We all need to email him from the addresses we want added on.
  9. Leah COMMITS to talking to Ebeth and Santiago about selling laptop parts on ebay. - IP
  10. Store will begin a collection bin for returned gizmos. - IP
  11. Sergio COMMITS to checking in on the processes for wiping Other Gizmos'data. - IP
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