[hackerspaces] Sister city hackerspaces

[Bilal Ghalib]

Awesome! Yeah, I'd totally love to. Let me know when, I'm approaching the desert now and will be in Beirut soon. Would like to chat with you about it a bit more too. Do you have any thoughts on how it could be organized for maximum impact? 

BG

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On Aug 26, 2012, at 6:19 PM, James Carlson <james at schoolfactory.org> wrote:

> 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
> 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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