[hackerspaces] Sister city hackerspaces

[James Carlson]

Let's do it-- Bilal if you want to call in on the next space federation
monthly call and blog on this I bet our members would like it!

On Sunday, August 26, 2012, Stewart Dickson wrote:

> I have thought of this before.
>
> The sister city of Urbana, Illinois is Zomba, Malawi (Africa)
> http://urbanaillinois.us/**UrbanaSisterCities<http://urbanaillinois.us/UrbanaSisterCities>
> I think that there is currently no hackerspace in Malawi.
>
> -Stewart
>
> On 8/26/12 1:45 PM, Bilal Ghalib wrote:
>
>> Hello beautiful people!
>>
>> Do you feel that interhackerspace dialog could be better? Tighter,
>> more networked? I do too! What if there was a sister hackerspace
>> exchange. The benefits of such a program would be:
>> 1) People can develop stronger relationships with one other
>> hackerspace, compared to ALLL THE HACKERSPACES
>> 2) Sister Membership could lead to more hackerspace visitation
>> 3) The difficulties of generalizing and sharing strategy for structure
>> and process can be eased
>> 4) Hackerspaces are personal spaces, data is great, but we connect in
>> our spaces better than online. This will help us love one another.
>> 5) Projects can be collaborated on
>>
>> Here I humbly propose the first sister spaces:
>> Beiruts hackerspace facilitated by Bassam (cced)
>> and
>> Ann Arbor's hackerspace facilitated by Josh Williams (cced)
>>
>> Discuss!
>> +BG
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