[hackerspaces] Refugee Memberships...

[Chris Weiss]

I can see making it known grants are available being useful.  for the first
many months a refugee may not have the means to become a member and thus
wouldn't seek it out. but if the grant is known to be an option they might.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:18 AM matt <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> 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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