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*Hi all!* My name's Jay, I'm* starting up a coworking space* in the seethingly creative, entrepeneurial, interdisciplinary hotbed of *Melbourne, Australia. * First up - a HUGE thanks for the resources posted by many of you in this and other contexts, it's mighty enabling! I'd love to come and *visit some existing coworking spaces*, and perhaps talk with founders/facilitators/leaders as well as members. I'll be in *California between 15th and 20th* of June (yes, next week!). Then in *Europe around the 27th June to the 3rd July* (with Germany as the epicentre - but have questions, will travel!). Then *Hong Kong/China 4th July to round 11th* (mostly Shenzhen but maybe up to Beijing as well). If anybody would be available that would be great - and if any of you can suggest a kind of bucket list of cowork spaces in the region - like any that are so good they shouldn't be missed! - that'd be appreciated too. A bit about myself - I'm an ex NGO manager with heavy chops in volunteer management, informal learning, community development, systemic advocacy, and change, with recent years dedicated to entrepeneurial endeavours in everything from phones to jewelry, IT startups to underground music events. In between I've been a chef, DJ, scuba diver, writer, and astrologer. I probably shouldn't have left that one til last! Anyway I'm a multidisciplinary thinker and I can promise some good listening skills - maybe even some helpful insight from an outsiders POV - I've done lots of organisational consulting on change dynamics and similar processes. For the cowork space we're developing in Melbourne's north (Thornbury), I'll be taking my cue from what many of you people have articulated about the importance of developing some kind of core community first. So we're renovating a building now but in the next days watch for an invitation to get involved and shape everything from the name to the membership structure. I'm open to any and all advice and will be posting questions here to you good people just as soon as I've read through the treasure trove that is the back catalogue of posts in this forum! Thanks! Jay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/lq7mv4aTVqwJ. 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.
