[hackerspaces] Refugee Memberships...

[matt]

Does making membership available to them make sense in that scenario?
 these are folks who have no sought you out.  You have sought them out.
Maybe you should simply run it as free classes.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Simon Clark <simon at zebraspot.com> wrote:

> 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
>> Diyode Community Workshop
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