Projects at risk

This page documents projects that are causing problems for the hackspace because they're unfinished or unmaintained.

Projects which have been abandoned are liable to be thrown away or repurposed to recover the working area and the components in them. Any project can be proposed for this treatment : this page is where the progress is noted.

Procedure

A project that has been noted (marked for deletion ..) should be added to this page and the date noted. The project owner - if there is one - must respond within 1 month. The response may be one or more of :

• Action taken towards completing the project
• Documenting an acceptable plan to make progress on the project
• Agreement that the project should be scrapped and a plan for disposal

If this doesn't happen, the assumption is that the project will be assigned to the 3-week bin for eventual disposal. Initially, we'll say that consensus must occur for any project to be scrapped in this way. If the procedure is found to work we may be able to make the requirements less subjective.

Projects needing attention

Laser cutter

Owner

Hackspace (especially Solexious because he formerly did most of the maintenance).

Status

The laser cutter has been in a state of limited working since Solexious announced he would no longer maintain it. A number of people have made an effort to fix it, but it still has warnings attached. There is some difficulty as nobody wants to mess it up, especially as most people hope Solexious wishes to maintain it again (he did a great job .. personally I think it misses him).

Requirements

An owner is needed, taking responsibility for regular maintenance and providing continuity to repair efforts. Since the laser cutter is very important to the hackspace, the owner should function as a team leader with a documented fallback plan to cover absences.

Calendar

• Noted 'at risk' --Artag 11:55, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
• Action required by 6.11.2011

Disposal

If no owner is found, the cutter should be sold : if not maintained it will not work, and it still has some residual value.