[talk-au] Men's Shed?

[Ewen Hill]

The feminine term is a pretty standard "Hen's shed" so perhaps
name=Boyanup Hens Shed
community_centre=community_shed
gender=female

Take shed more as a collective noun rather than a structure per se.

Ewen

On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 20:15, Jonathon Rossi <jono at jonorossi.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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Ewen Hill
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