Since people are mentioning organizations that do the heavy lifting, I can point to Girl Develop It as a distributed non-profit organization that helps teach women to code. We're one of their Philadelphia hosts and they've been awesome/well organized.
We'll be moving forward with more arrangements like theirs, where they have classes run by/partnered with a trusted "co-host" who does a lot of the heavy lifting. We're thinking about encouraging them to offer split rates, one for Indy Hall members and one for non-members (GDI doesn't do this currently, given their mission I don't know that we'll ask them to) but we DO plan to offer two different hosting rates for members/non-members. Based on that rate, we'll take a cut of their ticket sales so the more successful they are, the more we both benefit. Win win! -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia building a community? http://masterclass.indyhall.org On Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 11:45 AM, John Wilker wrote: > Semi separate of my coworking space my experience was similar to Craig's as > far as classes. Lots of work variable pay-off > > We've had tremendous success with meet ups as our space has a dedicated space > that can hold about 60 people with 10' screen, HD projector etc. That has > worked well. > > We're open to hosting classes when approached and have a relationship with > Dabble but haven't had a class hit critical mass yet. > > > > John Wilker > Founder, 360|Conferences | Partner, Uncubed > (720) 381-2370 > twitter: jwilker (http://twitter.com/jwilker) > johnwilker.com (http://johnwilker.com) | 360|MacDev (http://360macdev.com) | > 360|Stack (http://360stack.com) | 360|iDev (http://360idev.com) > > > On Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Craig Baute - Creative Density > Coworking wrote: > > > Alex is right that classes vary dramatically from space to space. > > > > We tried to do regular classes and found it to be difficult to find quality > > instructors and to market the classes. Basically, it's a lot of work with > > little pay off. I have since shifted my focus and looking partner services > > that have already built the marketing and organizing machine like Dabble.co > > (http://Dabble.co) or Skill Share. > > > > Craig > > Creative Density > > Denver, CO > > > > -- > > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > > > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com
