[talk-au] Men's Shed?

[Warin]

On 09/10/19 23:17, Sebastian S. wrote:
> What about a repair cafe? Is that also community_center?

>
> To me a repair cafe is a mixture of men shed and maker, tinker, hacker 
> space.
>
> They are often also community driven/operated.
I have never seen a 'repair cafe', so I don't know. Do these exist in 
Australia? I have see a few Men's Sheds.
Link? OSM existence?
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On 7 October 2019 6:07:19 pm AEDT, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 07/10/19 17:43, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>>
>>
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>>     7 Oct 2019, 08:39 by matkoniecz at tutanota.com:
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>>         Based on images it sounds close to hackerspace/makerspace,
>>         but with no (or lower) focus
>>         on software part and greater on direct working with wood and
>>         similar materials.
>>
>>         See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dhackerspace
>>
>>     To clarify - not sure whatever describing it in this way is a
>>     good match, but maybe
>>     it may be one of tags used to describe such object.
>>
>>     At least it would be a good idea how it differs from hackerspace
>>     if it is not one
>>     (minimal focus on software and electronics?).
>
>     To me 'hackerspace' involves working with computers.
>
>     Mens sheds typically involve older tools without any computers,
>     this keeps the cost down and, as they are older people, usually
>     the users have knowledge of and skills to suit these older tools.
>
>     These were formed to provide social interaction of retired men
>     using the 'work' as an aid to get them involved.
>

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