[Coworking] Re: New member; modest question/idea...
Nathaniel, That sounds like a brilliant idea! Not only does it help improve upon the known flaws/preferences for an existing idea, but it also provides for a way to help build larger community and provides a way to create roots in what sounds like a community that's trying to get started. One of the first things I got told around here in trying to get a coworking space up and running is that the people in the community you're trying to foster are your best resource. One of the ways to take advantage of that, help bring them in, and grow the size of your community is to provide them with a way of taking ownership of part of the community and the things going on in it. One of the other things that I got was that different communities will build upon different things and end up with different community goals. One of our members at Company|Dallas is really big into the python programming language and unix, and alot of the people we've had come through have been affiliated with that. We've already hosted one PYUG meeting, and if I'm not mistaken we're due to host the next one this saturday. For you it sounds like your strengths lie in PERL and the community there, so by all means, tap into that! If that's going to be what gets you and your community going, then by all means seize upon it! As far as Brooklyn goes, I don't know about anything springing up there (Not a whole lot of that news reaches Dallas), but if there is, I would imagine that Tony from New Work City would probably have some info. You can find him commenting about things all over this group. Matthew Titsworth Company|Dallas - A Place to work in the Telecom Corridor matt...@companydallas.com http://www.twitter.com/companydallas On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, nathanielnathan...@photino.org wrote: Hi: I just signed up for this group, and, per instructions, I'm starting out by sending a message to the group. I only recently learned about coworking, having visited a space in Columbus, OH, while visiting relatives. If I may put one question or idea out there, concerning those coworkers (if there is a proper term for this, please let me know...) who do computer programming - related work. I thought it would be nice to develop an archive for coworkers to introduce themselves and present some code that they do not mind making public, along the lines of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), Boost, etc. The difference about a coworking - related archive, aside from it being open to any language or application domain, would be that coders could optionally provide a location where they could be found -- I've often found myself wishing I could talk in person to whomever wrote code that I am browsing or using from the internet, and it might help those of us looking for clients for our coding efforts find an audience ... Anyhow, I'm involved with a programming group for the Perl language, and such an archive might be a good project to demonstrate the powerful of modern Perl development techniques, particularly with respect to parsing code from different language -- a next-generation code archive could provide user-customized syntax highlighting, language-construct specific searching (i.e., search among classes, method names, etc.), etc., a kind of miniature IDE in a browser. My question is whether there are any programmers out there who think this is a worthwhile project and whether there would be enough people around the web who would sign up (i.e., contribute code...). Well, perhaps that's a grandiose suggestion given that I'm a newbie to coworking, but that's the kind of project I'd like to work on, so I thought I'd mention it and see whether anyone has comments / suggestions. Aside from that, I'd certainly like to led a hand to get a Brooklyn cowork space open (my understanding is that this group is being used to try and promote that). Let me know if I can contribute somehow to the web site or databases or whatever relevant ... and thanks for your attention. I look forward to following the traffic and developments in this group. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: New member; modest question/idea...
Hi Nathaniel, We have a Brooklyn co-working space called Green Spaces - www.greenspacesny.com. Great group of people - around 60 people are part of the space - primarily social entrepreneurs. If you want to check it out - call Roberto at 718-855-5356. Also - this is a question to the group. I am out in Denver now and looking to start something similar so if anyone would like to collaborate or chat please send me an email. This is a great group and you all have been very helpful! Warm regards, Jennie On Jul 3, 2:21 pm, nathaniel nathan...@photino.org wrote: Hi: I just signed up for this group, and, per instructions, I'm starting out by sending a message to the group. I only recently learned about coworking, having visited a space in Columbus, OH, while visiting relatives. If I may put one question or idea out there, concerning those coworkers (if there is a proper term for this, please let me know...) who do computer programming - related work. I thought it would be nice to develop an archive for coworkers to introduce themselves and present some code that they do not mind making public, along the lines of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), Boost, etc. The difference about a coworking - related archive, aside from it being open to any language or application domain, would be that coders could optionally provide a location where they could be found -- I've often found myself wishing I could talk in person to whomever wrote code that I am browsing or using from the internet, and it might help those of us looking for clients for our coding efforts find an audience ... Anyhow, I'm involved with a programming group for the Perl language, and such an archive might be a good project to demonstrate the powerful of modern Perl development techniques, particularly with respect to parsing code from different language -- a next-generation code archive could provide user-customized syntax highlighting, language-construct specific searching (i.e., search among classes, method names, etc.), etc., a kind of miniature IDE in a browser. My question is whether there are any programmers out there who think this is a worthwhile project and whether there would be enough people around the web who would sign up (i.e., contribute code...). Well, perhaps that's a grandiose suggestion given that I'm a newbie to coworking, but that's the kind of project I'd like to work on, so I thought I'd mention it and see whether anyone has comments / suggestions. Aside from that, I'd certainly like to led a hand to get a Brooklyn cowork space open (my understanding is that this group is being used to try and promote that). Let me know if I can contribute somehow to the web site or databases or whatever relevant ... and thanks for your attention. I look forward to following the traffic and developments in this group. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: New member; modest question/idea...
Nathaniel, It's an awesome idea and probably one that my members would love to dig into and maybe help out with. Feel free to come by the space sometime soon! There's a lot of coworking or coworking-related activity going on in Brooklyn, with a lot of variety in environment and amenities between them. Off the top of my head: Green Spaces, The Change You Want to See, Ditmas Workspace, Treehouse, Brooklyn Creative League, Hot Pot, 3rd Ward, and one or two unnamed projects as well. You should definitely say hi to as many of those folks as possible. Matt, thanks for thinking of me :) Best, Tony - *New Work City - Coworking NYC style.* *Phone:* (888) 823-3494 *Email:* 3...@nwcny.com *Web:* http://nwcny.com *Twitter:* http://twitter.com/nwc On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:40 PM, jennie - green spaces jenniene...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nathaniel, We have a Brooklyn co-working space called Green Spaces - www.greenspacesny.com. Great group of people - around 60 people are part of the space - primarily social entrepreneurs. If you want to check it out - call Roberto at 718-855-5356. Also - this is a question to the group. I am out in Denver now and looking to start something similar so if anyone would like to collaborate or chat please send me an email. This is a great group and you all have been very helpful! Warm regards, Jennie On Jul 3, 2:21 pm, nathaniel nathan...@photino.org wrote: Hi: I just signed up for this group, and, per instructions, I'm starting out by sending a message to the group. I only recently learned about coworking, having visited a space in Columbus, OH, while visiting relatives. If I may put one question or idea out there, concerning those coworkers (if there is a proper term for this, please let me know...) who do computer programming - related work. I thought it would be nice to develop an archive for coworkers to introduce themselves and present some code that they do not mind making public, along the lines of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), Boost, etc. The difference about a coworking - related archive, aside from it being open to any language or application domain, would be that coders could optionally provide a location where they could be found -- I've often found myself wishing I could talk in person to whomever wrote code that I am browsing or using from the internet, and it might help those of us looking for clients for our coding efforts find an audience ... Anyhow, I'm involved with a programming group for the Perl language, and such an archive might be a good project to demonstrate the powerful of modern Perl development techniques, particularly with respect to parsing code from different language -- a next-generation code archive could provide user-customized syntax highlighting, language-construct specific searching (i.e., search among classes, method names, etc.), etc., a kind of miniature IDE in a browser. My question is whether there are any programmers out there who think this is a worthwhile project and whether there would be enough people around the web who would sign up (i.e., contribute code...). Well, perhaps that's a grandiose suggestion given that I'm a newbie to coworking, but that's the kind of project I'd like to work on, so I thought I'd mention it and see whether anyone has comments / suggestions. Aside from that, I'd certainly like to led a hand to get a Brooklyn cowork space open (my understanding is that this group is being used to try and promote that). Let me know if I can contribute somehow to the web site or databases or whatever relevant ... and thanks for your attention. I look forward to following the traffic and developments in this group. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: New member; modest question/idea...
Here in Xindanwei we keep a live stream of archive about what people are coming to the space, how they look like, what they think and do, etc by integrating twitter, flickr and vimeo the platform. We invite every coworker to share their photo and profile on the live stream, so that people would know what kind of people are here and how they interact with each other. Feel free to check the live stream archive out and suggestions are highly welcome. http://xindanwei.com Meanwhile, we are alliancing with two other coworking spaces in Shanghai to push the coworking idea forward, they are www.88spaces.com and www.thestudio.cn, they both have different coworking style (one is hacky, the other is arty)but we all share the same value and philosophy of coworking. Three of us have teamed up ourselves a Xindanwei Network! In this way, we wish to encourage more people in the country to join in the network and start their own coworking spaces despite of the size, location and style. cheers, Liu Yan 2009/7/7 Tony Bacigalupo tonybacigal...@gmail.com Nathaniel, It's an awesome idea and probably one that my members would love to dig into and maybe help out with. Feel free to come by the space sometime soon! There's a lot of coworking or coworking-related activity going on in Brooklyn, with a lot of variety in environment and amenities between them. Off the top of my head: Green Spaces, The Change You Want to See, Ditmas Workspace, Treehouse, Brooklyn Creative League, Hot Pot, 3rd Ward, and one or two unnamed projects as well. You should definitely say hi to as many of those folks as possible. Matt, thanks for thinking of me :) Best, Tony - *New Work City - Coworking NYC style.* *Phone:* (888) 823-3494 *Email:* 3...@nwcny.com *Web:* http://nwcny.com *Twitter:* http://twitter.com/nwc On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:40 PM, jennie - green spaces jenniene...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nathaniel, We have a Brooklyn co-working space called Green Spaces - www.greenspacesny.com. Great group of people - around 60 people are part of the space - primarily social entrepreneurs. If you want to check it out - call Roberto at 718-855-5356. Also - this is a question to the group. I am out in Denver now and looking to start something similar so if anyone would like to collaborate or chat please send me an email. This is a great group and you all have been very helpful! Warm regards, Jennie On Jul 3, 2:21 pm, nathaniel nathan...@photino.org wrote: Hi: I just signed up for this group, and, per instructions, I'm starting out by sending a message to the group. I only recently learned about coworking, having visited a space in Columbus, OH, while visiting relatives. If I may put one question or idea out there, concerning those coworkers (if there is a proper term for this, please let me know...) who do computer programming - related work. I thought it would be nice to develop an archive for coworkers to introduce themselves and present some code that they do not mind making public, along the lines of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), Boost, etc. The difference about a coworking - related archive, aside from it being open to any language or application domain, would be that coders could optionally provide a location where they could be found -- I've often found myself wishing I could talk in person to whomever wrote code that I am browsing or using from the internet, and it might help those of us looking for clients for our coding efforts find an audience ... Anyhow, I'm involved with a programming group for the Perl language, and such an archive might be a good project to demonstrate the powerful of modern Perl development techniques, particularly with respect to parsing code from different language -- a next-generation code archive could provide user-customized syntax highlighting, language-construct specific searching (i.e., search among classes, method names, etc.), etc., a kind of miniature IDE in a browser. My question is whether there are any programmers out there who think this is a worthwhile project and whether there would be enough people around the web who would sign up (i.e., contribute code...). Well, perhaps that's a grandiose suggestion given that I'm a newbie to coworking, but that's the kind of project I'd like to work on, so I thought I'd mention it and see whether anyone has comments / suggestions. Aside from that, I'd certainly like to led a hand to get a Brooklyn cowork space open (my understanding is that this group is being used to try and promote that). Let me know if I can contribute somehow to the web site or databases or whatever relevant ... and thanks for your attention. I look forward to following the traffic and developments in this group. -- Liu Yan刘妍 Xindanwei Coworking Playce新单位联合办公 3S
[Coworking] An introduction a new coworking space (Berlin, Germany)
Hi all, Although I've talked to a few of you before, I haven't yet introduced myself on this list - so here goes. Based in Berlin, Germany, I'm a freelance consultant for web strategies, working with companies, non-profits other organisations. (Right now that means a lot of election campaigning for the German social democrats.) I've been following the evolvement of coworking for quite awhile (since IndyHall opened, I believe), but so far I just shared offices. That's until recently I first worked at The Change You Want To See (hey Noel, hey Bekka...), did a few interviews from there (http://www.thewavingcat.com/?s=coworking+interview - thanks Patrick, Chris, Alex, Tony!) and - after my return to Berlin - a friend happened to find a space that was basically ready to go. So as of now(ish), doors are open at Studio70 in Berlin Neuklln. On board, among others, is Sebastian Sooth, cofounder of meta-coworking project Hallenprojekt.de, who some of you may have met in New York recently. We haven't launched a website for Studio70 yet (we literally just got the room a few weeks ago), but there's some basic info on Hallenprojekt.de: http://hallenprojekt.de/studio-70 We'll be running it between ca 10 of us on a non-profit basis. Also, we twitter at http://twitter.com/studio70 and there's a few photos, too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thewavingcat/sets/72157620862305568/ (yes, the chandelier was already in there; we weren't planning to steal CitizenSpace's signature lighting fixture ;) If you happen to be in Berlin, make sure to drop by! Best, Peter -- Peter Bihr Web Strategies with a focus on Web 2.0, Blogs Social Media Blog: www.thewavingcat.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thewavingcat email: peter.b...@gmail.com fon: +49.30.805799688 mobil: +49.178.5298139 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Help me write my MA thesis on coworking!
Hi All! I am a graduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago and am planning to write my thesis on coworking spaces. I have designed a brief, online survey to gather information on various coworking spaces. If you work at, manage, or own a coworking space I would love to have you take the survey. The results of the survey will help inform the direction of my thesis. Please click here (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx? sm=NdS8mfStjplqwU8fNkH_2b_2fQ_3d_3d) to take the survey. Please feel free to reply with any questions! Thanks - Talia. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: Help me write my MA thesis on coworking!
It is fantastic to see this type of growth on coworking and especially interesting from this angle. As a site owner of an open work lounge for creatives, I would be interested in knowing what prompted you to take this topic. Also, what exactly attracted you to to concept of coworking? (Did you use a space in Chigaco while you were studying?) Thanks! Danielle Nicoli Facebook WHERE: Meet, Mix, Mogul new web site: www.wheremmm.com @wheremmm On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:44 AM, talia taliaelizab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All! I am a graduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago and am planning to write my thesis on coworking spaces. I have designed a brief, online survey to gather information on various coworking spaces. If you work at, manage, or own a coworking space I would love to have you take the survey. The results of the survey will help inform the direction of my thesis. Please click here (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx? sm=NdS8mfStjplqwU8fNkH_2b_2fQ_3d_3d) to take the survey. Please feel free to reply with any questions! Thanks - Talia. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
