[hackerspaces] Sister city hackerspaces

[Padraic Harley]

Sounds great! You mentioned benefits but how do ye see such a program 
being acted on?

The only way we've worked it so far is that when Frantisek came over 
from Noisebridge, we skipped the probationary period and gave him a key 
straight away.

- padraic

On 27/08/12 03:30, Bilal Ghalib wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 26, 2012, at 6:19 PM, James Carlson <james at schoolfactory.org 
> <mailto: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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