[hackerspaces] Refugee Memberships...

[Simon Clark]

Hah, no, good point.  

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. 

On Dec 1, 2015, at 8:55 AM, matt <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> If any refuges have shown up to one of our open events they have not identified themselves as refuges.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Simon Clark <simon at zebraspot.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Simon Clark
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