Hey Paul, just recognized your comment on that today. Yeah. We had a meeting with lots of people today in betalab and last week we met Stefan from Vienna, who is running already 3 places that make it very easy and cheap having an office plus they put an effort on creating a community there and it is a business for him. Anyway, what I wanted to say is, that I exactly understand what you mean by "institutional". What we do is basically about the intrinsic wish of living in a nice work/life ecosystem ourselves and since we didn't find it anywhere, where we could join, we just started to create one ourselves. Sometimes we are very close to what yoga schools offer as the effect of their courses. Anyway, that takes time and energy and should generate revenues. Could be in well-being or synergie or elsewhere, maybe also revenues. But this is a multidimensional game and can end up somewhere else. Well, we love what we do, even cooler if we can make a living out of that. But this is not in first place...
arghh. It is already late in Berlin. I try to get away from my computer now and find a party 1.0 Rock on... chris P.S.: Ah, just come over to Berlin then and start coworking with us in betahaus.. ;) On Nov 18, 11:24 pm, pabcas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph, > > Sounds amazing. Half planning on shifting myself toBerlinaround > 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, > > Paulhttp://www.pabcas.com > > On Nov 14, 8:56 am, Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > this is Christoph form BetaHausBerlin. 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 inBerlinduring > > 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 inBerlinrenting 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 inBerlin. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
