[Themaintainers] Big question - but looking for practical solution

[Jan Dittrich]

Hi Erin,

So just to understand you correctly:

The people you work with store a lot of broken equipment that is too old 
to be used efficiently anyway.

Does it, aside of probably looking messy have negative effects? Like, 
that the space that is used is needed for something else? (Asking, since 
some people might like it to look like the IT crowd basement. Having 
hung out in some hack spaces, it sometimes seems to be an aesthetic 
choice, I guess :) )

You also write:

 > They do "ad-hoc" maintenance […]
 > […] resource allocation for preventative maintenance and repair

This implies to me that, while the tech runs it is not necessarily taken 
care of, only if it breaks – is that correct or did I read to much into it?

Kind Regards,
  Jan

Am 16.04.2021 um 17:47 schrieb Erin Richardson:
> Hello, maintainers!
>
> I normally work in the museum space where I work with maintenance and 
> preservation of cultural objects and associated metadata and systems.
>
> This time I have a project that involves equipment in use (or supposed 
> to be in use) and I'm looking for a maintenance plan framework for a 
> very small nonprofit organization without any kind of maintenance plan 
> for their equipment. They do "ad-hoc" maintenance and are very loathe 
> to officially retire anything because someone might be able to fix it 
> some day.
>
> However, their boneyard is impinging on their ability to fulfill their 
> public mission - a whole lot of square footage is consumed with broken 
> equipment, much of which has been in purgatory so long that it 
> wouldn't be redeployed even if repaired because it has been superceded 
> by something better.
>
> So, I'd like to direct them to some philosophy about maintenance that 
> focuses on planning and resource allocation for 
> preventative maintenance and repair, but also something that will help 
> them know when it is ok to enter equipment into hospice and let it 
> die. These are science people, but I'd prefer something 
> not-too-technical. They're a fun and very smart bunch with a basement 
> full of what can only be described as recyclables at this point.  Help 
> please?
>
> Thank you!
> Erin
>
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