Raccoon Plan
Making Raccoons a part of Free Geek
Obscure and difficult hardware needs different attention.
Currently, things are worth saving if:
- we can make a freekbox out of it
- we can sell it to people who want newish computer stuff for cheap
- we can sell it to the bulk buyers we have found
- we can use it for infrastucture
- the online sales coordinator notices its online value
Markets not dealt with optimally:
- online sales needs more eyes trained and looking for good stuff
- internal market to volunteers who "just want stuff"
- these people are currently seen as a nuisance
- they are a pool of artists and hobbyists (read: market) who have already come to us
We need to give attention to these two areas to help reuse in as many ways as we can. We need to offer more structured opportunities to electronic hobbyists. We should integrate the constant expansion of our categories of reuse. We should offer training to people in both dealing with specific types of obscure hardware and in finding new markets. Our core volunteers already do these tasks to some extent; we should encourage and develop it into a program that is well enough structured to include more people.
SWOT
| Good (for Free Geek) | Bad (for Free Geek) | |
|---|---|---|
| Internal (to Free Geek) |
Strengths: Strengths are advantages we have that are internal to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things we do.) blah |
Weaknesses: Weaknesses are problems we have that are internal to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Things we do poorly or not at all.) blah |
| External (to Free Geek) |
Opportunities: Opportunities are advantages we have that are external to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things that will or could happen to us.) blah |
Threats: Threats are problems we have that are external to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Bad things that will or could happen to us.) blah |
See also Trends and Attributes | What do we want to do?