Hi My name is Steele Davis aka "Mr Steele," I would like to share my idea with you.
Kwad Share a nonprofit organization developed to recycle equipment and knowledge to help grow the FPV community.
The FPV industry develops new products very rapidly thus new gear is constantly coming out. With all of these new products hitting the market, pilots are constantly upgrading, shifting out their "old" gear and replacing with the latest and greatest. This often just means that some shiny new product has caught their eye and they swapped out a perfectly working piece of gear for this new piece. Usually resulting in the "old" gear being set aside for a backup build or to never be flown again. This constant movement in the industry not only allows for extremely rapid growth but also opens up a unique opportunity for generous people to hand down their "old" otherwise perfectly working gear to less fortunate pilots. This gifting will providing less of a barrier to entry for new pilots and also allow lesser income individuals to get in the air and stay there.
So how does all of this work? Do I just make and account and then all of the sudden I'm neck deep in gear?
well.. not exactly
I will now attempt to explain how I see this working.
1.) Make an Account on Kwad Share
2.) Create a build log thread of you own for a specific project you with to build.
3.) State in your build log which items you will need to complete the project.
Here's where it gets tricky. Because this is a vision and it hasn't actually been done before to my knowledge (we are open to suggestions) There will be two types of Kwad Share members in the beginning, Donators and Receivers. There must be a receiver to request an item to be donated, but there also must be a donator with the items requested to fulfill the request.
4.) Requesting a product by creating a thread within the equipment subcategory i.e. FPV cam/motors/VTX
5.) Once a donator has contacted the receiver there will be a personal transition where the donator ships the items to the receiver.
6.) Once the receiver gets the product they are to post pictures and build log updates in their build log to show that they are actually benefiting from the donations from others attained from the Kwad Share Program.
That's really it. There are a lot quirks and bugs I'm sure we will all work through as a group, but the main idea behind all of this is to help join people together by the kindness of others and the unique opportunity of sharing knowledge.
Please feel free to give me or any of us at Kwad Share your ideas of how we can make this a more streamlined process.
Thanks from Steele and everyone else at Kwad Share.
Kwad Share a nonprofit organization developed to recycle equipment and knowledge to help grow the FPV community.
The FPV industry develops new products very rapidly thus new gear is constantly coming out. With all of these new products hitting the market, pilots are constantly upgrading, shifting out their "old" gear and replacing with the latest and greatest. This often just means that some shiny new product has caught their eye and they swapped out a perfectly working piece of gear for this new piece. Usually resulting in the "old" gear being set aside for a backup build or to never be flown again. This constant movement in the industry not only allows for extremely rapid growth but also opens up a unique opportunity for generous people to hand down their "old" otherwise perfectly working gear to less fortunate pilots. This gifting will providing less of a barrier to entry for new pilots and also allow lesser income individuals to get in the air and stay there.
So how does all of this work? Do I just make and account and then all of the sudden I'm neck deep in gear?
well.. not exactly
I will now attempt to explain how I see this working.
1.) Make an Account on Kwad Share
2.) Create a build log thread of you own for a specific project you with to build.
3.) State in your build log which items you will need to complete the project.
Here's where it gets tricky. Because this is a vision and it hasn't actually been done before to my knowledge (we are open to suggestions) There will be two types of Kwad Share members in the beginning, Donators and Receivers. There must be a receiver to request an item to be donated, but there also must be a donator with the items requested to fulfill the request.
4.) Requesting a product by creating a thread within the equipment subcategory i.e. FPV cam/motors/VTX
5.) Once a donator has contacted the receiver there will be a personal transition where the donator ships the items to the receiver.
6.) Once the receiver gets the product they are to post pictures and build log updates in their build log to show that they are actually benefiting from the donations from others attained from the Kwad Share Program.
That's really it. There are a lot quirks and bugs I'm sure we will all work through as a group, but the main idea behind all of this is to help join people together by the kindness of others and the unique opportunity of sharing knowledge.
Please feel free to give me or any of us at Kwad Share your ideas of how we can make this a more streamlined process.
Thanks from Steele and everyone else at Kwad Share.
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