Stuff

HacDC has lots of stuff. More stuff is always coming in. HacDC has a limited amount of space. Some stuff has to go out.

The trick is to save what's most useful, and to be able to find it when you need it. What follows is an organizational scheme that's worked well in my (Myself/Nate) life, and I think it'll apply here since the types of stuff are nearly identical.

There are a few basic rules:

• Label everything.
• If a label isn't clear, rewrite it.
• When a box fills up, either:
  • Split it into subcategories and label them.
  • Purge some stuff from the box.
  • Move it into a larger box.

In my own lair, I can make solo judgements about what to keep and what to pitch, but in a community workspace it would suck for one person to throw out stuff that someone else wanted to keep. At the June 3rd, 2008 meeting, a basic outgoing-stuff strategy was outlined:

• If you think something should be thrown out, move it to the outgoing-stuff box.
• After a week in the box, if nobody objects, out it goes.
• If you want something in the box, consider taking it home instead of storing it at the space!

Without further ado, here are the categories and subcategories that've worked for keeping a massive pile of stuff under control: