Christoph, Sounds amazing. Half planning on shifting myself to Berlin around this time next year. The vibe of not concentrating on the economic outlay/monetisation of the space itself, but on what's going on within-- that's something that's been eating at my imagination lately.
There are lots of places that offer business incubation in Ireland, but my sense is that they are ... quite institutional. I think there's a need to nurture big ideas in a more agora / open atmosphere. But best of luck getting it going, Paul http://www.pabcas.com On Nov 14, 8:56 am, Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > this is Christoph form BetaHaus Berlin. We figured out, that we are on > the coworking wave, too. Funny thing is that I coincidentally > contacted Tara early this year while our ideas where pretty > rudimentary. Some month later the grand design and the worldwide > coworking network got more accessible for us. During the last 4 months > we met a lot of people and got connected. Peter Schreck (peteschreck) > from Cologne became part of our core team, we involved the local > government, that is very interested in digital boheme - stuff(that is > a term for coworkers down here in germany). > Last week suddenly Lloyd Davis from Social Media Café in London sat in > front of me during a presentation by Rod Beckstrom in Berlin during > Web 2.0 Expo and we had a short chat. We are in contact with the > tribeminds guys from amsterdam also, and so on and so forth. > Regarding the coworking landscape in Europe I guess it works a bit > different here, at least in Germany. I have actually not a clue how > this situation is in the US but we got already a lot of sponsored > places for cultural activities in germany. If you need space to work > and for collaboration as an artist or an architect, etc... you > probably get it easily and cheap. that is how civil society is getting > bigger project done. Especially in Berlin renting a space is so cheap > that economic reasons are nothing to care about. Let's say: It is not > the price that make coworking attractive in Berlin. The other factors > are more important. Anyway, I'd like to discuss that later on. > > No some facts to keep it short: We are opening up kind of a coworking > laboratory in december to find out more about that whole thing and how > it is working. > A Facebook Group can be found over > here:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7086631329 > Blog and wiki are coming up. > I will do a short video of the place now and post it on facebook, that > finally this place gets a physical face (and us, too) That's it for > today. > > Big hug to everybody, I really enjoyed reading you the last month. ;) > > Christoph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
