Hi, friends: An introduction to a new space and an "old member" is in order.
Goshen Bricolage has been in existence in some form since mid - 2008. I was intellectually and emotionally inspired by articles I read about the co-working movement in New York, and financially inspired by the terror of bringing 3,500 sq ft of office space to market just as the Great Recession hit here in Elkhart County. Our co-working community has grown to 4 resident members, plus myself with a consulting business, plus Elkhart County Works Together, a social entrepreneurship venture that has occupied my best energies since March of 2009. You can not only get a glimpse of that work, you can get pictures of Goshen Bricolage at that site. ecwt.org All this time, I have been not just a lurker, but an avid reader of the discussions of this group. These discussions have helped me immensely in getting Bricolage started. But I never joined in the discussion overtly, for a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with busyness and a bit of technophobia. The discussion of the Passport, for instance, is very intriquing. If I had more confidence that people on this list would regularly be in Goshen on business, I would have joined! (As it is, anyone is welcome to show up and get comp space just for finding us!) Now after a few weeks of end of the year mania with ECWT, I return to find that the entire discussion of chipping in for a domain name (and all that goes with it) has passed me by. We're in the tail end of that discussion, some where between the possibility of recriminations and post-mortems. (I do believe that the strength of this community will keep the worst possibilities from coming to pass.) But . . . the time for me to join financially or verbally in the formative stages of that discussion has passed. One could say that I "missed the boat," and that the price of participation in that discussion is more regular vigilance. And that's fine. I'm not at all complaining. I simply want to point out that there are many ways to participate in both this online discussion group and in the coworking movement as it is happening on the ground. I hope that we, as a community, move ahead with further organizational development in a way that fully honors and incorporates that organic reality of our community. Yours in peace, David Schrock-Shenk Elkhart County Works Together 206 South Main Street Goshen, IN 46526 (574) 534-0903 dschrocksh...@aol.com ecwt.org -- 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.
