Rules
From London Hackspace Wiki
Personal Items
- Members are allowed to store personal items in the space, but they must be kept in one of the plastic boxes, labeled with your name. One box per member.
- Larger/more items are allowed with permission. They should be labeled as yours (e.g. with a post-it).
Donating/Loaning Hardware
- If you're leaving something and you would rather it was not mercilessly ripped apart, please label it accordingly.
- Likewise, if something looks expensive or useful please don't mercilessly rip it apart without asking first.
Tidiness
- Workbenches should be completely clean when you leave - be considerate for the next user. Please put tools back where you found them.
- Any items left on a workbench overnight become fair game.
- All cups and plates you have used should be washed before leaving the space.
- If you have engaged in any waste generating activity (e.g. peeling wires), hoover the spot.
Disposal
We have a finite amount of space, so we will inevitably have to throw away what seems like useful stuff. To get rid of the clutter, follow the following easy steps:
- Label that it's going to be disposed, with a date four weeks from now
- Announce it on the mailing list. Wait 2 weeks
- Announce it again on the mailing list. Wait 2 weeks
- Announce it one last time on the mailing list.
- If it's electronic equipment that might have useful stuff in, rip out the electronics and put it in the electronic junk box
- Otherwise, dispose of it
Disposal Proposal
- Put whatever you think should be junked on the "to be junked" shelf
- Every Tuesday the "to be junked" shelf is sorted. Religiously.
- Things to be junked go in the junk box
- Things to be salvaged go in the salvage box
- Everything else gets put away properly and labelled with it's purpose (and reason for not using) if need be
- Anything moved to the junk or salvage box gets documented on the wiki page with a date, which is then linked in the weekly notes
- Whenever someone has time, anything that is in the junk box that has been there for more than four weeks goes in the skip
The n Rules
- Rule 0 : Do not be on fire
- Rule 1 : Don't hack someone else's stuff without permission
- Rule 2 : If it's not broke, fix it until it is.