Ideas for places to Stay During an Exchange
Hi Think Tank
How might we house visiting our shops to help for extended periods?
Please reply to the thread with ideas.
Here is a start :
- volunteers with spare room
-hostels -Catholic Ministries -CAIN in Cincinnati -airbnb -camp in a backyard
What else could go on this list?
Speaking for myself, if I was being hosted I'd like choices. Camping in someone's backyard might be an excellent and preferable option some times of the year, while being hosted in someone's actual house might be nicer at other times or in other circumstances.
I remember at the regional BikeBike! in Troy they had a huge repurposed church (which I believe was The Center For Independent media?) and they had a huge sleepover for at least fifty of us in the huge congregation chamber (it was a lot of fun). They had a huge kitchen and everything. Places like that exist in a lot of towns and are often ready to step up as hosts as well.
I know Cornell here in Ithaca has small apartments withing the campus often not attached to any dormitory explicitly set aside for visiting professors and speakers. Accommodations like that are probably a good thing for all of us to start setting up ot just for this project, but for all kinds of other exchanges as well.
Even a place that usually does AirBNB but which had an standing agreement with organizations to reserve the space for visiting exchangers would be effective. I think the options are fairly diverse here.
-Cyclista
On 2017-11-14 23:05, Robert Grossman wrote:
Hi Think Tank
How might we house visiting our shops to help for extended periods?
Please reply to the thread with ideas.
Here is a start :
- volunteers with spare room
-hostels -Catholic Ministries -CAIN in Cincinnati -airbnb -camp in a backyard
What else could go on this list?
The ThinkTank mailing List
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So I guess the main step here would be a channel, hopefully a consistent and sustainable one, where regional CBS's could signify they have ready and arranged accommodations. The second thing would be a way to use that or a similar channel to announce when they are soliciting an exchange. In reverse that channel could be used by Directors or mechs or specialists of whatever type to announce they had availability in their schedule to travel, or even advertise types of info they had prepared for exchange.
Even then we still get stuck at travel expenses. But we can tackle that separately.
-Cyclista
On 2017-11-15 00:14, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Speaking for myself, if I was being hosted I'd like choices. Camping in someone's backyard might be an excellent and preferable option some times of the year, while being hosted in someone's actual house might be nicer at other times or in other circumstances.
I remember at the regional BikeBike! in Troy they had a huge repurposed church (which I believe was The Center For Independent media?) and they had a huge sleepover for at least fifty of us in the huge congregation chamber (it was a lot of fun). They had a huge kitchen and everything. Places like that exist in a lot of towns and are often ready to step up as hosts as well.
I know Cornell here in Ithaca has small apartments withing the campus often not attached to any dormitory explicitly set aside for visiting professors and speakers. Accommodations like that are probably a good thing for all of us to start setting up ot just for this project, but for all kinds of other exchanges as well.
Even a place that usually does AirBNB but which had an standing agreement with organizations to reserve the space for visiting exchangers would be effective. I think the options are fairly diverse here.
-Cyclista
On 2017-11-14 23:05, Robert Grossman wrote:
Hi Think Tank
How might we house visiting our shops to help for extended periods?
Please reply to the thread with ideas.
Here is a start :
- volunteers with spare room
-hostels -Catholic Ministries -CAIN in Cincinnati -airbnb -camp in a backyard
What else could go on this list?
The ThinkTank mailing List
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I mean I guess why not use bikecollectives.org as the channel? Like a space/checkbox/description field/whatever set aside on every org's page?
-Cyclista
On 2017-11-15 00:22, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
So I guess the main step here would be a channel, hopefully a consistent and sustainable one, where regional CBS's could signify they have ready and arranged accommodations. The second thing would be a way to use that or a similar channel to announce when they are soliciting an exchange. In reverse that channel could be used by Directors or mechs or specialists of whatever type to announce they had availability in their schedule to travel, or even advertise types of info they had prepared for exchange.
Even then we still get stuck at travel expenses. But we can tackle that separately.
-Cyclista
On 2017-11-15 00:14, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Speaking for myself, if I was being hosted I'd like choices. Camping in someone's backyard might be an excellent and preferable option some times of the year, while being hosted in someone's actual house might be nicer at other times or in other circumstances.
I remember at the regional BikeBike! in Troy they had a huge repurposed church (which I believe was The Center For Independent media?) and they had a huge sleepover for at least fifty of us in the huge congregation chamber (it was a lot of fun). They had a huge kitchen and everything. Places like that exist in a lot of towns and are often ready to step up as hosts as well.
I know Cornell here in Ithaca has small apartments withing the campus often not attached to any dormitory explicitly set aside for visiting professors and speakers. Accommodations like that are probably a good thing for all of us to start setting up ot just for this project, but for all kinds of other exchanges as well.
Even a place that usually does AirBNB but which had an standing agreement with organizations to reserve the space for visiting exchangers would be effective. I think the options are fairly diverse here.
-Cyclista
On 2017-11-14 23:05, Robert Grossman wrote:
Hi Think Tank
How might we house visiting our shops to help for extended periods?
Please reply to the thread with ideas.
Here is a start :
- volunteers with spare room
-hostels -Catholic Ministries -CAIN in Cincinnati -airbnb -camp in a backyard
What else could go on this list?
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