I can't afford to attend SXSW this year but I think a 1 day Co-working event prior to SXSW on an annual basis is a good idea.
Donna 'SnowWrite' Snow Space Catalyst in San Jose, CA On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Cody Marx Bailey <superp...@gmail.com>wrote: > Here's the way I look at the SXSW/Coworking Camp. My main focus is not > on coworking, though I manage an office. The Creative Space is a labor > of love and isn't set up to make money. Honestly, I don't think I'd > put doing a whole trip just for coworking in my plans because frankly, > I get enough info from my peers around the state and the somewhat > large meetup during SXSW. While I agree with Todd that coworking isn't > and shouldn't be strictly IT/Web based, SXSW isn't either. SXSW has > become a hotbed for all kinds of things. Hell, even this year there's > a healthcare conference being held in conjunction (http:// > www.sxsh.org/). > > I understand that some folks won't be making it to SXSW this year for > whatever reason, but I don't know if many more folks will be able to > make a separate trip to some city for a few days to just talk about > coworking. I think it makes a lot of sense to go ahead and use SXSW as > the base for a national meet up. Perhaps grow the event from 2 hours > to a whole day before SXSW gets ramped up and going... > > Thoughts? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
