Talk:Basic Intake Documentation

I'm seeing a few things in working receiving for the first time after the redesign:

1) What should we have volunteers do about cables? There used to be a quasi-sophisticated system for them. Right now there's spots for cat5 cable, power cables for the store (what does that mean? only nice ones?), ribbon cable, and perhaps another cable type. I noticed that there's no howto for receiving cables, either. Perhaps we should just throw most cables in together and send 'em to offbeat receiving for now?

2) Also: it seems that two philosophies of recording gizmos as recycled has arisen in the past many months. The first way is the more traditional:

• receive a gizmo, then test it or decide whether it should be recycled, then write it down somewhere and have a data entry volunteer change its status to recycled.

• The second, newer way: test the gizmo first, then give it a number if it works. If it doesn't work, record it on the clipboard by the door - then a bunch of similar types of gizmos are simultaneously given numbers and 'recycled' statuses in the database with the cloner.

I'm not incredibly partial to either way, but some volunteers have told me that they've been confused by the fact that there's two ways to do things. Perhaps we should choose one way for simplicity's sake?

3) The Mac stuff. I know that rilly old stuff should be received as recycled, but I don't see a list of what stuff to recycle anywhere, and the new documentation just says to send stuff to the mac pile - no mention of age. It seems that we want receiving to be easily self-running.

Shawn 17:25, 12 Apr 2005 (PDT)