Bernie, I'll ask the members involved if they'd like to be on the podcast and we'll set a date. OuiShare looks neat, and I've been curious about the culture at Enspiral and Loomio for awhile now.
Chris, Allison, and Alex Hillman: We'd value any tips and I can share what we do and learn via this group. I've also thought about starting a group for growing healthy place-based communities with monthly or weekly meetings via phone. The core principles (and the questions that led to this topic coming up) would be: https://collectiveagency.co/2016/11/19/governance-guidelines/ I could see that being a membership organization of membership organizations - might you be interested? To participate or listen in on the open member meetings, people need to be members or visiting here with a member. Our current membership options are at http://collectiveagency.co/membership/ Allison - - how many members total are at Free Range, and how many members self-identify as persons of color (and how many subgroups have more specific labels, such as Cuban, or African American, or Somalian, or otherwise)? - Do you see any differences in interaction style or desired amenities or work style or types of companies they're at, or after-work activities/lifestyles? - Do people tend to group by demographics? At Collective Agency it seems that people do not group by demographics, although some people whom I'd guess self-identify as differently from how they perceive other people tend to self-isolate more. - What other places do you look to for inspiration? - With the meetings you host that attract members, my sense is that having a "Persons of Color" meetup (or for women, in the years before we got to be pretty equal on the women-men ratio, a "Women Who Code" meetup) would not increase membership, but having a meetup where some people happen to be persons of color would increase membership. Do you have thoughts on that? I'm treating this topic the way I treat all topics here - we'll meet on the sofas in the Loft for the weekly open member meeting (it's 20 minutes at each location, but we go over to 30 minutes sometimes if people want), we'll start by going around and each person says their name and something they're passionate about in 30 seconds or less, we'll cover upcoming events like the holiday party and check in on any other items people want to cover, and then focus on: clarifying questions, then concerns, then suggestions for things we can do, all within the Community Guidelines http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines/ Two or three of us have done research (this is part of my research), and one of my clarifying questions will be: on a day that we have 40 members here, how many do we want to self-identify as what labels? This is the topic at the NW location where 3 members other than myself have said they very much want more diversity (but not at the Division location, where no one has requested it), it came out of a vision/values survey which included the governance questions above. 3 members who very much want something is enough for us to make it happen. Alex Linsker, Collective Agency On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 3:37:29 AM UTC-8, Bernie J Mitchell wrote: > > I have been thinking about this post too. > > Trevor and I do a podcast for OuiShare called Brave New Work > <https://goo.gl/XeXiGb> - > We'd be up to drive a conversation about this - book a Friday session here > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcalendly.com%2Fberniejmitchell%2Fouisharefridayinterview&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHUgdnETwTyYEOoF8dsT--wAi_zjg> > and > let's see what we can do. > > Also: > (We have episodes from Coworking Europe dudes Taylor, > <https://www.spreaker.com/user/ouishare/brave-new-work-06-taylor-tran-innovation> > > Gareth > <https://www.spreaker.com/user/ouishare/brave-new-work-07-gareth-jones-welsh-ice>, > > Lenneke > <https://www.spreaker.com/user/ouishare/brave-new-work-21-make-a-better-world-by> > > and daily round up's from Copass Camp > <https://www.spreaker.com/user/ouishare/live-from-the-copass-camp-at-coworking-e_2> > ) > > In the new year, we'll be exploring coworking and Platform Cooperatives as > we lead up to Open 2017 in London <https://2017.open.coop/> > --- > > > Have a remarkable day > > Bernie J Mitchell > 0777 204 2012 > > Do you use Trello? <http://berniejmitchell.com/blog/> > www.berniejmitchell.com <http://berniejmitchell.com/> > > Sent from my mobile device > > *Unless we agree otherwise, this email conversation is confidential. > > > -----Original Message----- > Re: [Coworking] Re: where do people of color cowork? > From: *Alex Hillman <dangerous...@gmail.com <javascript:>>* > To: "cowo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>" <cowo...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>> > Cc: > Monday, December 05, 2016 at 11:19PM > 1 - I def wanna tune in/participate in a convo like this. > > -Alex > > > ------------------ > *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* > Better Coworkers: http://indyhall.org > Weekly Coworking Tips: http://coworkingweekly.com > My Audiobook: https://theindyhallway.com/ten > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Allison Deerr <alliso...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> Hi Alex! >> >> Great question. I'd love to be a part of this conversation as well. I >> help manage Free Range in Chicago and while our founder is an African >> American woman, we are still a predominantly white coworking space. It is >> interesting to note that we also serve as an event venue on the weekends >> and most of our event clients are women of color. >> >> We sometimes host coworking Meetups and have been able to attract more >> diversity that way, but the conversion to coworking membership is low. >> >> Interested to learn more from others! >> >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to coworking ...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking ...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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