Make the borrower's fee include insurance. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yama... > > See below for some suggestions... > > Caryl >> Subject: Austin XO Lending Library >> >> I just applied to set up and run an XO lending library in Austin >> >> yop, crazy as charged... >> >> Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback, and especially figure out the good >> answer to these questions >> >> * how to keep the XOs safe >> (so far I would go for references, FOAFs - lacking that, some extreme >> case would involve some escrow setup) > Make it hard to "fence" with: > *Lots of publicity so everyone in town (or TX) knows what the XO looks like > and that it is supposed to be with the lending library. Show a marked > machine in the pictures (TV coverage too) so that Contributor's and G1G1 > donors won't get hasseled. > *Mark the outside of the case permanently and prominently with some type of > very colorful indelible marker or paint. > *Mark inconspicuously inside the battery compartment. > *Require that borrowers fill out a form citing responsibility for the > machine while it is checked out to them and promising to replace it "in > kind" if it is lost, stolen. or damaged due to negligence. > >> >> * how to keep this away from sucking all the time and resources of >> people running it. > Good question...maybe long-term loans so the turnover would be slow. Ask > borrowers to handle getting it to the next borrower? >> (I see having a 'mandatory donation' a possibility, or maybe outright >> charging a fee? a service will be provided...) >> >> * other Austin Pecans to help run this >> >> Ultimately some people could borrow a few, and then locally run their >> own "branch", dunno, many ideas > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > >
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