[talk-au] Men's Shed?

[Jonathon Rossi]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:07 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 16:25, Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Exceddingly happy with community.shed as proposed
>>
>> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, 5:15 PM Sam Wilson <sam at samwilson.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>> I think amenity=community_centre makes sense, and I think there’s
>>> enough in Australia to warrant a specific community_centre=mens_shed
>>> (or maybe community_shed, which Wikipedia suggests as the generic term).
>>>
>> Yes, that has a lot going for it!
>
> Still as community_centre=community_shed?
>
> Or maybe community_shed=man/woman?
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 16:35, Jonathon Rossi <jono at jonorossi.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think shed (sometimes) describes the building not that they do. How
>> about community_centre=workshop?
>>
>
> No, they're not always located in a "shed", but as that's a pivotal part
> of the name, I think we should keep reference to it?
>

Yes, after a bit more research I agree, I hadn't realised other countries
are also referring to these as men's sheds:

> 1,000 Australia
> 450 Ireland
> 300 United Kingdom,
> 100 New Zealand
> 20 Canada
> ~12 United States
>
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/livable-in-action/info-2019/mens-sheds-in-us.html

Looks like a few Men's Sheds are opening to regular She Shed/Women Shed
classes for a cost (https://www.thewomensshed.org/). However, these classes
have a different purpose to the overall goal of Men's Sheds. Are they still
just a Men's Shed that opens to women? "Like CWA, but with power tools" was
one way they were described. I wouldn't mind community_centre=mens_shed
because the overall goal is men's health, i.e. the Shoulder to Shoulder
slogan, even if the facility gets used by women occasionally.

If we go with community_centre=community_shed, we need to make sure the
wording makes it clear it isn't like Share Shed (
https://www.shareshed.org.au/), they are like a library for tools run by
the community.

-- 
Jono
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