[committee] Donating stuff to the computer museum?

[Nick Bannon]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:38:45PM +0800, Frames wrote:
> Hi all,
> I suggest we invite the computer museum http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/
[...]

I think I can speak on behalf of ACMS(WA) (and Andrew might as well?):
please come and visit us. I think a weekend, after exams, could work?
(the last week of November, onwards?)

I'm afraid UCC is going to have to be active in its own cleanliness.

I think the simple-as-possible-but-no-simpler way to make everyone happy
is pretty much what Andrew was getting at: major throwouts as a two-step
process, giving people a chance to see. Because we have frequent large
cleanups, and it seems we may be organising more smaller ones at the
moment, that should fit in fairly well.
My reference for that is:
https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Tidy_Space_Policy

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> I believe this has been done before, though not in at least a decade.

Certainly three years ago, an orderly decommissioning of manbo:
http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2013-November/004367.html
...and a little more interaction since then by way of the ACS annual dinner.

> The stuff we still have is stuff they didn't want.
> But it is now >10 years older and so more historical.
> 
> In particular, I think we would like to donate all our old manuals, and 
> source code printouts, which apparently they are specifically after.
> And any of those they do not want to take, we throw out  -- on the basis 
> that them not being willing to take the manuals means either they have a 
> copy (in which case if we need it we can borrow it from them), or the 
> manual is not worth keeping as it is available easily (eg it is online).
[...]

> Only things I can think that they might want, that we want more, are Murphy,
> and the Dumb terms in the corridor (currently broken, despite Oscar, 
> JJohn Nguyen, and my own best efforts. But Liable to be able to be fixed 
> since they only broke a few months back)

Oh!

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:51:14PM +0800, Andrew Williams wrote:
[...]
> And that's why I suggested posting some photos - I'm happy to come into 
> the club in person, but lots of people don't have the time, so you'd 
> reach a lot more old guard if you posted some pictures.

Nick.

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