[hackerspaces] Another registry?

[Will Bradley]

Our insurance hasn't mentioned anything regarding minors, and we just went
thru an audit... our liability waiver is even pretty liberal when it comes
to minors.

I mean, high school wood shop and summer camp still (mostly) exist; I think
we're in that category.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Willow Brugh <willow.bl00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the main issue with bringing in minors is that of insurance, what would
> go into making our own insurance co-op? Because being an insurance agent is
> what I always wanted to be when I grew up...
>
> Willow Brugh // willowbl00 <http://blog.bl00cyb.org/>
> Schedule a meeting with me
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> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 18:02, Ron Bean <makerspace at rbean.users.panix.com>wrote:
>
>> >It's always freaking the hell out of me to see how crazy the US is
>> about
>> >these things.
>>
>> We're not thrilled about it either-- most of us would have benefitted
>> from access to a hackerspace at that age. But we have to live with it.
>>
>> >And I consider teaching to be one of the, if
>> >not the most important goals of "hacking".
>>
>> I consider "learning by doing" to be different from "teaching". We're
>> constantly teaching each other how to use the tools, and we give demos
>> of various things, but we don't have any formal curriculum, which we'd
>> need to have in order to be considered an educational group. In many
>> cases we don't know what we're going to learn until after we've learned
>> it.
>>
>> I wouldn't want to spend so much time on formal teaching that we don't
>> have any time left for hacking.
>>
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