One issue is that of tech donations- if something is donated, like a printer, people seem to be generally dumping the item into the Production room, probably because it's a secure room. Whether that person who is receiving the donated item(s) plans to then inform anyone about where the item came from and what needs to be done with it seems to not be happening. <br>
<br>Brian Duggan informed me that the Finance group secured the black printer. However no request has been made for anyone to do anything with it. This is one example where people are not communicating within the established channels the IMC uses for dealing with stuff/requests/whatever else. Another example is the many requests that Brian Duggan receives for desktop support. While part of his role as an Americorps with a tech focus is to support the program, in my opinion it is not to provide the type of one-on-one support that he's been asked to do on many occasions. It should also be noted that very few of these requests are actually made through the imc-tech list. That failure to make a standard request to our list both limits the ability of tech to adequately respond to requests, and it also hides the fact that Brian's time is being monopolized by Americorps staff requests and support of specific working groups like IMC Finance. <br>
<br>Don't get me wrong here, I believe time should be devoted to things like providing remote access and ensuring backups of the finance machine are happening, the fact is that Brian's time to devote to projects that the Tech group would like him to work on is being unfairly limited by support requests that is simply outside the scope of what the Tech group does. <br>
<br>How does this rambling rant relate to the production room issue brought up by Christina? <br><br>One of the things the tech group has done in the past was to vet and receive tech donations. What happens then when someone comes in and drops off a totally non-functioning VCR? Does the person receiving them accept it? or do they contact someone from the tech group? I'm not saying tech needs to be consulted on every donation, but hey- we don't need more crap lying around the IMC. <br>
<br>Here's a better use case: a working group secures a new printer to be donated to the IMC (something we actually need) -- at the very least they should communicate what's going on to the appropriate lists. In the case of the printers that have been showing up in the production room this should be imc-tech and imc-production. <br>
<br>People need to get over not wanting to communicate over email and our listservs. This is the core communication mechanism that the IMC has used since its inception. <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Bob Illyes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:illyes@uiuc.edu">illyes@uiuc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Regarding the long email from Kristina about the Production room being used for a dumping ground, Print rents 1/4 of the room and RFU rents about a 4th. We both pay market rates for what we use. As the Print and RFU Americorps person, Kristina is completely within her rights to take anything that's dumped in at least that half and put it out into the main space.<br>
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Sometime back, Shows was using the room as an equipment dump. Then they got an entire room for which, as far as I know, they pay nothing. What group is putting this stuff in the room now?<br>
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Bob<br>
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