<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">For someone who is just arriving, and who has tech skills, the makerspace or hackerspace is an excellent local networking opportunity. <div class="">Making a supported membership available to those who are interested will result . </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Shirley Hicks</div><div class="">Red Mountain Makers</div><div class="">Birmingham, AL</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Chris Weiss <<a href="mailto:cweiss@gmail.com" class="">cweiss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I can see making it known grants are available being useful. for the first many months a refugee may not have the means to become a member and thus wouldn't seek it out. but if the grant is known to be an option they might.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:18 AM matt <<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" class="">matt@nycresistor.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Does making membership available to them make sense in that scenario? these are folks who have no sought you out. You have sought them out. Maybe you should simply run it as free classes.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Simon Clark <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:simon@zebraspot.com" target="_blank" class="">simon@zebraspot.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hah, no, good point. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our assumption is that we will work with the local agency that is resettling refuges. We would give them a list of some basic requirements (basic interest, some history of working with tools, basic english, etc), and let them decide who the initial recipients are. </div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2015, at 8:55 AM, matt <<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" target="_blank" class="">matt@nycresistor.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">If any refuges have shown up to one of our open events they have not identified themselves as refuges.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Simon Clark <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:simon@zebraspot.com" target="_blank" class="">simon@zebraspot.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At our meeting last night, we voted to make 3 memberships available to incoming refugees. We’re just starting to discuss how the recipients will be chosen, and what the prerequisites are, but I was wondering if any other spaces had done something like this, and learned any lessons from it.<br class="">
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