Nathaniel, That sounds like a brilliant idea! Not only does it help improve upon the known flaws/preferences for an existing idea, but it also provides for a way to help build larger community and provides a way to create roots in what sounds like a community that's trying to get started. One of the first things I got told around here in trying to get a coworking space up and running is that the people in the community you're trying to foster are your best resource. One of the ways to take advantage of that, help bring them in, and grow the size of your community is to provide them with a way of taking ownership of part of the community and the things going on in it. One of the other things that I got was that different communities will build upon different things and end up with different community goals. One of our members at Company|Dallas is really big into the python programming language and unix, and alot of the people we've had come through have been affiliated with that. We've already hosted one PYUG meeting, and if I'm not mistaken we're due to host the next one this saturday. For you it sounds like your strengths lie in PERL and the community there, so by all means, tap into that! If that's going to be what gets you and your community going, then by all means seize upon it!
As far as Brooklyn goes, I don't know about anything springing up there (Not a whole lot of that news reaches Dallas), but if there is, I would imagine that Tony from New Work City would probably have some info. You can find him commenting about things all over this group. Matthew Titsworth Company|Dallas - A Place to work in the Telecom Corridor matt...@companydallas.com http://www.twitter.com/companydallas On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, nathaniel<nathan...@photino.org> wrote: > > Hi: I just signed up for this group, and, per instructions, I'm > starting out by sending a message to the group. I only recently > learned about coworking, having visited a space in Columbus, OH, while > visiting relatives. > > > If I may put one question or idea out there, concerning those > "coworkers" (if there is a proper term for this, please let me > know...) who do computer programming - related work. I thought it > would be nice to develop an archive for coworkers to introduce > themselves and present some code that they do not mind making public, > along the lines of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), Boost, > etc. The difference about a coworking - related archive, aside from > it being open to any language or application domain, would be that > coders could optionally provide a location where they could be found > -- I've often found myself wishing I could talk in person to whomever > wrote code that I am browsing or using from the internet, and it might > help those of us looking for "clients" for our coding efforts find an > audience ... Anyhow, I'm involved with a programming group for the > Perl language, and such an archive might be a good project to > demonstrate the powerful of modern Perl development techniques, > particularly with respect to parsing code from different language -- a > next-generation code archive could provide user-customized syntax > highlighting, language-construct specific searching (i.e., search > among classes, method names, etc.), etc., a kind of miniature IDE in a > browser. My question is whether there are any programmers out there > who think this is a worthwhile project and whether there would be > enough people around the web who would "sign up" (i.e., contribute > code...). > > Well, perhaps that's a grandiose suggestion given that I'm a newbie to > coworking, but that's the kind of project I'd like to work on, so I > thought I'd mention it and see whether anyone has comments / > suggestions. Aside from that, I'd certainly like to led a hand to get > a Brooklyn cowork space open (my understanding is that this group is > being used to try and promote that). Let me know if I can contribute > somehow to the web site or databases or whatever relevant ... and > thanks for your attention. I look forward to following the traffic > and developments in this group. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
