[Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Kyle McLaren]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new 
coworking space (Engineroom). 

We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm able 
to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active 
on the network. This list is then published to a 
Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in realtime) 
who is active on the network 
via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.

Kyle McLaren
Founder
@EngineroomHQ 

On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:
>
> Hey all
>
> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space 
> on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love 
> to hear any creative ideas.
>
> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love 
> to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. 
>
> thanks!
>
> Eli Malinsky
> Centre for Social Innovation
> New York // Toronto
>

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Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Alex Hillman]

Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me
compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100
concurrent connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned
the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people
do actually you have distributed across each one?

-Alex


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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new
> coworking space (Engineroom).
>
> We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm able
> to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active
> on the network. This list is then published to a 
> Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in 
> realtime) who is active on the network
> via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.
>
> Kyle McLaren
> Founder
> @EngineroomHQ 
>
>
> On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:
>>
>> Hey all
>>
>> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space
>> on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love
>> to hear any creative ideas.
>>
>> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love
>> to hear your experiences, see pics, etc.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Eli Malinsky
>> Centre for Social Innovation
>> New York // Toronto
>>
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Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Kyle McLaren]

Hey Alex,

They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum
capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third).
The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic
and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's.

The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed
to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas
Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software.

Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people
reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you
probably don't need much more.

(I have no affiliation with them :)

Kyle McLaren
Founder
@EngineroomHQ 

On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman 
wrote:

> Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me
> compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100
> concurrent connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned
> the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people
> do actually you have distributed across each one?
>
> -Alex
>
>
> --
>
> /ah
> indyhall.org
> coworking in philadelphia
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren 
> 
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my
>> new coworking space (Engineroom).
>>
>> We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm
>> able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently
>> active on the network. This list is then published to a 
>> Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in 
>> realtime) who is active on the network
>> via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.
>>
>> Kyle McLaren
>> Founder
>> @EngineroomHQ 
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey all
>>>
>>> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the
>>> space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything?
>>> I'd love to hear any creative ideas.
>>>
>>> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd
>>> love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc.
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>> Eli Malinsky
>>> Centre for Social Innovation
>>> New York // Toronto
>>>
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Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Sam Rosen]

We ran a couple Ubiquity routers at The Coop. They were our saving grace after 
a bunch of trials with other hardware. We've got two AP's and we have no issues 
on average managing 200+ connections.

Sam

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On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Kyle McLaren  wrote:

> Hey Alex,
> 
> They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum 
> capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). 
> The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and 
> zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. 
> 
> The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to 
> hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas 
> Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software.
> 
> Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people 
> reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you 
> probably don't need much more.
> 
> (I have no affiliation with them :)
> 
> Kyle McLaren
> Founder
> @EngineroomHQ
> 
> On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman  
> wrote:
> Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared 
> to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100 concurrent 
> connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way 
> that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you 
> have distributed across each one?
> 
> -Alex 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> /ah
> indyhall.org
> coworking in philadelphia
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren  wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new 
> coworking space (Engineroom). 
> 
> We have a Ubiquity UniFi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users 
> (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list 
> is then published to a Firebase database and users can then view (in 
> realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from 
> Firebase.
> 
> Kyle McLaren
> Founder
> @EngineroomHQ
> 
> 
> On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:
> Hey all
> 
> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on 
> a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to 
> hear any creative ideas.
> 
> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to 
> hear your experiences, see pics, etc. 
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Eli Malinsky
> Centre for Social Innovation
> New York // Toronto
> 
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Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Alex Hillman]

Thanks Kyle!

Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where
these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things
that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+
devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc.

We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud
controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices
in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We
have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in
production (including Meraki & Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the
price spectrum).

Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man,
do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people
can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of
that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for
a fact that we'd get equal or better performance.

So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical
performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data.

You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them?

-Alex









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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren wrote:

> Hey Alex,
>
> They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum
> capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third).
> The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic
> and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's.
>
> The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed
> to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas
> Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software.
>
> Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people
> reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you
> probably don't need much more.
>
> (I have no affiliation with them :)
>
> Kyle McLaren
> Founder
> @EngineroomHQ 
>
> On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman 
> wrote:
>
>> Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me
>> compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100
>> concurrent connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned
>> the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people
>> do actually you have distributed across each one?
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> /ah
>> indyhall.org
>> coworking in philadelphia
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my
>>> new coworking space (Engineroom).
>>>
>>> We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm
>>> able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently
>>> active on the network. This list is then published to a 
>>> Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in 
>>> realtime) who is active on the network
>>> via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.
>>>
>>> Kyle McLaren
>>> Founder
>>> @EngineroomHQ 
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:

 Hey all

 Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the
 space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything?
 I'd love to hear any creative ideas.

 We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd
 love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc.

 thanks!

 Eli Malinsky
 Centre for Social Innovation
 New York // Toronto

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Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Jonathan Markwell]

I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to
think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets
close to an Apple-like Just Works experience.

We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs sharing
the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such good value
and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd be fine
adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among other things
regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere with each other.
They even continued to work without complaint when the controller (an old
Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days.

Jon


On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman wrote:

> Thanks Kyle!
>
> Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where
> these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things
> that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+
> devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc.
>
> We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud
> controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices
> in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We
> have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in
> production (including Meraki & Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the
> price spectrum).
>
> Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man,
> do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people
> can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of
> that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for
> a fact that we'd get equal or better performance.
>
> So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical
> performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data.
>
> You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them?
>
> -Alex
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> /ah
> indyhall.org
> coworking in philadelphia
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren wrote:
>
>> Hey Alex,
>>
>> They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum
>> capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third).
>> The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic
>> and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's.
>>
>> The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed
>> to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas
>> Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software.
>>
>> Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people
>> reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you
>> probably don't need much more.
>>
>> (I have no affiliation with them :)
>>
>> Kyle McLaren
>> Founder
>> @EngineroomHQ 
>>
>> On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me
>>> compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100
>>> concurrent connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned
>>> the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people
>>> do actually you have distributed across each one?
>>>
>>> -Alex
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> /ah
>>> indyhall.org
>>> coworking in philadelphia
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hi all,

 I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my
 new coworking space (Engineroom).

 We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm
 able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently
 active on the network. This list is then published to a 
 Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in 
 realtime) who is active on the network
 via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.

 Kyle McLaren
 Founder
 @EngineroomHQ 


 On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:
>
> Hey all
>
> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the
> space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything?
> I'd love to hear any creative ideas.
>
> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd
> love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc.
>
> thanks!
>
> Eli Malinsky
> Centre for Social Innovation
> New York // Toronto
>
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Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Alex Hillman]

Awesome feedback guys - thank you!



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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Markwell <
jonathan.markw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to
> think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets
> close to an Apple-like Just Works experience.
>
> We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs
> sharing the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such
> good value and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd
> be fine adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among
> other things regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere
> with each other. They even continued to work without complaint when the
> controller (an old Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman wrote:
>
>> Thanks Kyle!
>>
>> Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place
>> where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the
>> things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals
>> 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc.
>>
>> We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud
>> controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices
>> in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We
>> have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in
>> production (including Meraki & Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the
>> price spectrum).
>>
>> Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and
>> man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when
>> people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all
>> of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew
>> for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance.
>>
>> So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical
>> performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data.
>>
>> You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them?
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> /ah
>> indyhall.org
>> coworking in philadelphia
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Alex,
>>>
>>> They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum
>>> capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third).
>>> The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic
>>> and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's.
>>>
>>> The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as
>>> opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well
>>> whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software.
>>>
>>> Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people
>>> reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you
>>> probably don't need much more.
>>>
>>> (I have no affiliation with them :)
>>>
>>> Kyle McLaren
>>> Founder
>>> @EngineroomHQ 
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me
 compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100
 concurrent connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned
 the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people
 do actually you have distributed across each one?

 -Alex


 --

 /ah
 indyhall.org
 coworking in philadelphia


 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren 
 wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my
> new coworking space (Engineroom).
>
> We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm
> able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently
> active on the network. This list is then published to a 
> Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in 
> realtime) who is active on the network
> via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.
>
> Kyle McLaren
> Founder
> @EngineroomHQ 
>
>
> On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote:
>>
>> Hey all
>>
>> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the
>> space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything?
>> I'd love to hear any creative ideas.
>>
>> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd
>> love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Eli Malinsky
>> Centre for Social 

Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Jacob Sayles]

This is great information!  We are pushing our two Airport Extremes and are
starting to look for a more enterprise solution.  They have been great, but
these days we are averaging 120 devices a day and if I don't reboot them
once a week they stop accepting new connections about Wednesday or
Thursday.

I wonder if we could get away with only having two of these or if we should
get more.  Currently we have an Airport on each 5000sqft floor and have
plenty of coverage.

Jacob

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Markwell <
jonathan.markw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to
> think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets
> close to an Apple-like Just Works experience.
>
> We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs
> sharing the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such
> good value and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd
> be fine adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among
> other things regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere
> with each other. They even continued to work without complaint when the
> controller (an old Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman wrote:
>
>> Thanks Kyle!
>>
>> Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place
>> where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the
>> things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals
>> 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc.
>>
>> We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud
>> controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices
>> in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We
>> have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in
>> production (including Meraki & Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the
>> price spectrum).
>>
>> Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and
>> man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when
>> people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all
>> of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew
>> for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance.
>>
>> So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical
>> performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data.
>>
>> You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them?
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> /ah
>> indyhall.org
>> coworking in philadelphia
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Alex,
>>>
>>> They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum
>>> capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third).
>>> The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic
>>> and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's.
>>>
>>> The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as
>>> opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well
>>> whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software.
>>>
>>> Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people
>>> reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you
>>> probably don't need much more.
>>>
>>> (I have no affiliation with them :)
>>>
>>> Kyle McLaren
>>> Founder
>>> @EngineroomHQ 
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me
 compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100
 concurrent connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned
 the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people
 do actually you have distributed across each one?

 -Alex


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 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren 
 wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my
> new coworking space (Engineroom).
>
> We have a Ubiquity UniFi  WLAN from which I'm
> able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently
> active on the network. This list is then published to a 
> Firebasedatabase and users can then view (in 
> realtime) who is active on the network
> via a web app that pulls data from Firebase.
>
> Kyle McLaren
> Founder
> @EngineroomHQ 
>
>
> On Frida

[Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?

[Melissa Mesku]

Wish I had a more technically helpful answer, but as a coworking member, 
the most impressive solution I've seen is at the Grind in NYC. Members 
there use a card to tap themselves in every day, and photo profiles of all 
checked-in members appear in a private online directory and elegantly on a 
large screen in the space. I asked whether they could tell me what they 
use, but no dice. I might have to challenge one of their people to an arm 
wrestle. 

Melissa 
(coworker at New Work City in NYC) 

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:36:15 PM UTC-5, Eli Malinsky wrote:
>
> Hey all
>
> Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space 
> on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love 
> to hear any creative ideas.
>
> We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love 
> to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. 
>
> thanks!
>
> Eli Malinsky
> Centre for Social Innovation
> New York // Toronto
>

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[Coworking] Re: Cohousing and Coworking

[Christian M. Macy]

Wendy,

Before establishing our coworking space (Fuse) in Boulder I attempted 
something on a smaller scale at Wild Sage Cohousing.

We had a big office in our common house that was essentially being used for 
storage and the finance team's needs. I repurposed it and got it set up 
with a few desks, etc, but found that no one took advantage of it except 
for me.

This is by no means a valid test, but I do want to share that of 32 units, 
only two (including myself) are represented in a local coworking space.

It's not that it can't work. I just don't think it's as much of a natural 
fit as it may at first seem.

On Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:46:57 PM UTC-7, Wendy Willbanks Wiesner 
wrote:
>
> Hello--I interface with existing, expanding and forming cohousing 
> communities all over the country, working to make them more affordable, 
> accessible and attainable.  I have come to believe that coworking and 
> cohousing go together like almond butter and honey.   What immediately 
> comes to mind is that most cohousing communities have common houses where 
> coworking would make a lot of sense.  Has anyone else explored this 
> intersection of community-oriented living and community-style working?
>
>

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Re: [Coworking] Cohousing and Coworking

[Christian M. Macy]

Alex,

Cohousing goes a lot faster (though still more slowly than coworking which 
you can ostensibly do anywhere) when you have a developer like Jim Leach 
(of Wonderland Hill ) backing you.

He's been doing cohousing (mostly in the Western USA) for a long time and 
has created NUMEROUS communities.

As a general rule coworking is a lot less risky proposition and requires a 
lot less capital than cohousing - though there are 
exceptions
.

The other piece of it is that while coworking tends to serve a specific 
demographic that is rapidly growing, cohousing is pretty generalized and 
doesn't have a core market that's growing.

Last is that cohousing forms a much more binary and strong community. You 
can't just pop in once a month, so you get a lot more exposure and people 
have a bigger interest in the community since they purchased a house there 
instead of just a monthly membership.

Also I think personality types would be pretty different in cohousing than 
coworking. Coworking might have more in common with a co-op.


On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:01:53 AM UTC-7, Alex Hillman wrote:
>
> Thanks for the mention, Chad!
>
>
> It's worth mentioning that although the K'House website looks abandoned 
> (and it is), the project absolutely is still alive. In fact, I'll be moving 
> into one of our houses next weekend.
>
> The short version of the story is this: after about 12 months of community 
> building and raising the funds to build our first home, things got caught 
> in zoning (which we expected, it was just worse than we thought it would 
> be). After close to 2 years of talking about what we were *going *to do, 
> we decided to shut up and make some progress so we could talk about what 
> we've done...and *then about* what comes next. 
>
> Which, I'm happy to say, is where we are right about now :)
>
> My #1 takeaway so far is that cohousing done right - as a process, as an 
> experience, and as a business - moves a *lot* slower than coworking. 
> Having this project force us to go back to the drawing board a few times, 
> and think hard about what's really important to make the project 
> succeed, I've learned a TON about the community building side (similarities 
> and differences to coworking), as well as the business side of building 
> homes. I'll have a lot more to share over the course of this year. 
>
> My #2 takeaway is that the coworking and cohousing communities are barely 
> aware of each other, if at all, which is a shame because there's a lot they 
> can learn from each other! 
>
> So it's awesome to meet you here, Wendy, and would really like to find out 
> more about your experiences. Where are you based out of? 
>
> -Alex
>
>
>
> --
>
> /ah
> indyhall.org
> coworking in philadelphia
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Chad Ballantyne <
> ch...@thecreativespace.ca > wrote:
>
>> Check out Indy Halls K-housing
>> http://house.indyhall.org/
>>
>> 5-Mile Post has a great model as well.http://milepost5.net/
>>
>> Peace,
>> Chad
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>>  
>>
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>>  
>> On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Wendy Willbanks Wiesner <
>> wendywillb...@gmail.com > wrote:
>>
>> Hello--I interface with existing, expanding and forming cohousing 
>> communities all over the country, working to make them more affordable, 
>> accessible and attainable.  I have come to believe that coworking and 
>> cohousing go together like almond butter and honey.   What immediately 
>> comes to mind is that most cohousing communities have common houses where 
>> coworking would make a lot of sense.  Has anyone else explored this 
>> intersection of community-oriented living and community-style working?
>>
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[Coworking] Re: Cohousing and Coworking

[Christian M. Macy]

Late addition to this thread but one of the interesting things about 
cohousing is that about 70% of cohousers are introverts - i.e. they feel 
energized doing things alone.

Most of the folks I know in cohousing love being around other people but 
want to escape to their home.

The equivalent coworking space would need to be structured with private 
offices facing into the workplace with a shared common area that allowed 
for interactions and occasional collaborations.

Finally, getting coworkers into cohousing would seem a lot easier than 
getting coworkers into cohousing.


On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 6:47:43 PM UTC-7, Melissa Mesku wrote:
>
> Wendy, 
>
> I have lived in, and started, co-op housing communities, and I have to 
> agree with Alex in that coworking and cohousing are largely unaware of each 
> other. They're both based on similar principles (sharing resources, 
> enabling collaboration, building community) but address pretty different 
> lifestyle preferences, so I would anticipate that uniting the two would 
> require effort and imagination. 
>
> Coworking is on the rise but I don't know that cohousing is. When it comes 
> to living arrangements, I think your average person is still resistant to 
> the concept of sharing with non-family. That said, this may be changing, 
> given the state of the economy plus the popularity of the sharing economy 
> and the normalization of once-novel concepts like coworking.
>
> Best of luck!
>
>
> On Thursday, January 9, 2014 4:46:57 PM UTC-5, Wendy Willbanks Wiesner 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello--I interface with existing, expanding and forming cohousing 
>> communities all over the country, working to make them more affordable, 
>> accessible and attainable.  I have come to believe that coworking and 
>> cohousing go together like almond butter and honey.   What immediately 
>> comes to mind is that most cohousing communities have common houses where 
>> coworking would make a lot of sense.  Has anyone else explored this 
>> intersection of community-oriented living and community-style working?
>>
>>

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[Coworking] Re: Private Office and Coworking Help Needed

[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

>
> All three of these responses have been a good approach. Anyone that is 
> working there is a member. We have done what Rachel explained and set a 
> limit for the private office at 4, generally. If they wish to have 
> additional people attend their office then they have to buy an additional 
> membership. We don't treat private offices as an entity but as individuals 
> as well from a culturally perspective.
>

 Here is another suggestion: Talk to the team member individually and don't 
necessarily do it as a group. This seems like an issue that can be worked 
out between you two and then set a precedent moving forward. 

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[Coworking] Re: Detroit's First Coworking Week!

[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

Hey Issac,

Congrats from another Michigan native. I help organize Denver Coworking 
Week and we are having kick-off brainstorming meetings for our second 
annual one in May later this month. I would love to connect to learn more 
about what you guys are doing, what worked, etc.

Craig

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[Coworking] Re: Consulting

[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

Hey Em,

There are several of us that have been coworking consultants for the last 
few years. Some of the most active ones that I'm aware of are Angel of 
Cohere, Alex of IndyHall, Tony from New Work City, Jacob of Office Nomads, 
and I do as well. Check out this group and our blogs for some great 
information. If you'd like to contact some of us directly please do so. We 
are all pretty darn friendly people.

Craig

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