[hackerspaces] Refugee Memberships...

[matt]

Syria is not known for it's tech base.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Shirley Hicks <shirley at velochicdesign.com>
wrote:

> For someone who is just arriving, and who has tech skills, the makerspace
> or hackerspace is an excellent local networking opportunity.
> Making a supported membership available to those who are interested will
> result .
>
> — Shirley Hicks
> Red Mountain Makers
> Birmingham, AL
>
> On Dec 1, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Chris Weiss <cweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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