Re: [Coworking] International exchanges
On 18 December 2011 02:42, bruce edward whitaker bwhitty...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone know if international cowork exchanges are occurring? Would love to set-up an exchange whereby a workspace and home in one location would be exchanged for a workspace and home in another location for 2 weeks to 6 months. This is a variation of the Coworking Visa. Check out the wiki for details. It is up to each location of what is included for visiting members but this idea is an obvious extension of that. That reminds me, I have not posted an update on the number of participating locations in the Coworking Visa for ages (perhaps a year). -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Sample membership agreements?
I looked in a wiki though I might have missed it. Are there any sample membership agreements out there? Now that we're ready to take on members, and have people asking for agreements, guess it's time to get that done, LOL The wiki used to have about a half dozen agreements. I know mine used to be on it and I based mine on previous ones and I know 3 or 4 locations have based theirs on mine. I have a handful of updates I want to do now that AltSpace has been operating 3 years. I have not done any updates in 18 months. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking app update
On 5 April 2011 06:10, Anne @pariSoma annetgo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! The link to iTunes is here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coworking/id400569601?mt=8 Android app any chance? observation The approach of Google and Android is actually open (well openish) compared to the closed controlling world of Steve Jobs. I would have thought that the approach to openish/freedom and in fact 'driods deploying at about 10 times the rate of iPhones would naturally lead to that deployment for a coworking app. /observation -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- 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.
Re: [Coworking] How many coworking venues are there?
On 21/05/2010, Susan Evans susan.c.ev...@gmail.com wrote: I remember doing a count by digging through the wiki several months back and counted somewhere around 165 spaces that appeared to be open and operating worldwide. But I agree, it'd be great to do a rollcall again... My semi often Coworking Visa 'roll call' had 97 spaces in the programme of which about 2/3 were in USA. (as of Feb I think was my last one). I guessed that only about half of coworking locations were in the programme but those that were in it tended to be more established. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] What ever happend with the coworking.com money? Next Steps for Coworking.com contributors.
On 17 April 2010 11:35, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: No, I have not run off with the donated money. Nice try Stevenhttp://twitter.com/foxbane/status/11343846302 . The cover up continues! :-) And you're all *very lucky* that I didn't get around to execute my planned April Fools joke of redirecting http://coworking.com to http://www.regus.com/ for the day, just for kicks. But after the last Regus-related stunt I pulledhttp://www.indyhall.org/blog/2008/04/01/a-perfect-partnership/, I thought better :) I for one welcome our new Regus overlords! *Here we go:* 1. We'll have an open enrollment period for two weeks where we'll be taking pledges from everyone who would like to contribute. 2. At the end of that time, we'll find the lowest amount commonly pledged that meets the goal. (simple arithmetic, yay!) 3. Everyone who pledged under that amount will be contacted and given an opportunity to *adjust* the amount they would like to give, or *withdraw*from the process. 4. When that is settled people who haven't sent in money will be prompted to (we'll use paypal) and those who have already donated will be refunded any amount over the final amount determined by this exercise. 5. We'll write up a page documenting the event and thanking all the contributors. * * Excellent approach Alex. Can the page allow people to add a pledge without $ amount? Which means they agree to pay any amount that is required? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Sandbox Suites opens in East Bay!
Do you already have a base of interest built up for the new space? Do you anticipate that some of your current memebers will move locations? Is there a specific person who will be in charge of managing the community in that space? Inquiring minds want to know! I have wondered how many people run 2 or more locations? Also if you do have you set them up and run them or is it something else like using your name and rep or partner etc? Also do you allow members to roam between locations or have deals for joint membership? Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] White Noise Anyone?
On 31 March 2010 11:42, Jacob Sayles jsay...@gmail.com wrote: We keep the radio going but really it's not much of an issue. We remind people it's an office, not a library and we have 3 meeting rooms if folks need to talk privately. It can also add a nice level of fun as right now Charlie is on the phone talking about how he thinks he might be crazy and I'll go over in a minute and make some mildly inappropriate yet relatively witty comment. So maybe we should get Charlie's take on if it's an issue or not. Advice from a crazy person, excellent! However catch 22 means that if he thinks he is crazy he can not be as as that shows he is sane. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Wiki home page (mockup)
Thanks for the feedback so far on the mockup. When I was doing some thinking I thought about just creating better 'layout' for listing and finding different sites but realised that would likely mean double up of entries. To some degree this is already happening with the Coworking Visa page and the 'Local Efforts' page. I agree that the 'resources' links are hodge podge (grab bag) of links with varying degree of usefulness. They are also one of the major areas spammers hit due to the range of content/key words. Another area is I get emails from people asking for help adding/updating pages on the wiki as people are not used to it. This often happens after a spammer has come in and changed links etc. My comments are that we should take some of the new copy I did move it to the new site as an easy first step then think about how to maintain and sort the different areas on the wiki (I think we have three main areas, locations (active or in formation), Coworking Visa and resources. I tend to think that the locations (active, in formation and closed) and the Coworking Visa is very much benefit from some structure which a wiki is not the best suited to provide. Can I propose that some form of database is used for creating and updating coworking sites around the world that can then be linked from the wiki? Would coworking.com not be the ideal place for this? This means that the status and Coworking Visa aspects are just fields in the system and can be changed/updated as required. Also would be abel to track a location through its entire life from forming, opening, and for some closing. So in summary: Update the copy on the home page Think about how to represent the lifecyle of coworking locations Having right tool to do the right job (ie db vs wiki vs ?) Discuss! :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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] Wiki home page (mockup)
Folks, I decided to create a new page (unlinked) to start some of my thinking of the home page of the wiki. I grabbed some of the existing material, added some of my own and took some good stuff from other sites (I think Office Nomads was major source :-) The main area was the part (which has the least amount of work at the moment) is 'Coworking Locations' section where I have started to separate out 'open' from 'in formation' to 'gaining interest' and then was thinking of grouping them by location and also name. It might be better to have a small database on coworking.com and a link from the wiki on that to have locations? What I have tried to do is solve the 'list of geo links' on the page which is inconsistent (ie some are cities, some are space names and some are just odd) and help people find locations (by name or city etc). I also think we should add 'by language' as well but put no thought into how we display this. Any here is the link, http://coworking.pbworks.com/New-Mockup Comments welcome. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: sharing how to info with members of our space
I have a 2 page Google Docs doc with all info like building hours, and kitchen and ssid and such. Which I print out and have online for the members. I also email the member with the key details. The one thing that I should improve is proactive information when the first 'automated' invoice generated (this is the 2nd invoice and the start of the regular billing cycle). -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking.com, not an org, instead a license
On 3 March 2010 10:44, Mike Schinkel mikeschin...@newclarity.net wrote: I disagree. If someone with big $$$ starts promoting their executive suites as coworking in an area is will cause people in the area to associate coworking with executive suites and it could smother real coworking spaces in the area. That to me is bad. I agree in general. This is 'current state' to some degree. Anyone can call themselves a coworking place and join the Visa program. If this goes ahead then how do we enforce it, if we want to do that. We do not enforce the Visa program and to enforce means and entity of some type. Rinse and repeat conversation of last two weeks :-) PS Mike your posts are very hard to read as your replies are inline and same indentation as the orginal. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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: Looking for Community Manager role (listed on another site)
Folks, In the last week or so I came across a role that one of the coworking sites (think USA based) had for a Community Manager. I liked how it was worded, had about desk usage plus things like updating twitter/facebook, greeting prospects and members, as well as share of membership revenue (ie no salary) I do not think it was a 'recent' role posting but one still on blog type thing. My google powers have failed me and I can not find it at all and cant find it on the coworking websites that might have had it. I know this is taking us away from coworking.com discussions but any help or directions would be great. Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Clarification
Before looking at entity I think we need to go back to what Alex (and others have said). Why are we doing this? For instance we are putting the cart before the horse. And it is not like I have not spoken similar words before. The 5 why's come to mind about what we are doing. One thing in the possible approach is about tax exemption and possible charitable status. If lots of people in USA and Canada thinks this is a good idea AND required then ok. But then realised that this has NO benefit outside of these two countries. I still think we need to address what our requirements are. Some of these may come out of the discussion at SXSW. This is one of many F2F and online flora we can use to start to nut out the requirements (or strawman, or whatever). I would like to add that the get together at SXSW should be one of the many places to discuss... not the place. PS I have my views, I am one of many and I think we need more discussion before moving on any framework on how to implement it. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Clarification
One thing that *is* needed, and I'll stand firmly on this, is something we can point people to who want to understand what coworking is but who are not true believers like most on this list. For example, the media. Having the media right stories about coworking ends up having them define it for us whether we like it or not. I'd far rather we are in control of that definition and not others who couldn't be bothered to get it right. I think everyone agrees with this comment. I think that was in fact one of the reasons for securing the name. The content on the site is unrelated to the entity that owns/controls the name. With regard to the issues about 'if worst happens' I will research the current state of Alex holding it 'in trust' without a written trust deed being in place. I know in most common law based countries this is defensible but will check with the USA perspective. I will post back to the list my findings. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Clarification
Implausible? Only if you've never been a party to a lawsuit. It's disgusting what happens when someone who has plenty of money and lawyers on staff can to do those who don't have an infinite war chest to defend, even against frivolous lawsuit, at least in the USA. Thank you for you very long message about possible risk for an American based entity and outlines in detail some of my reasons for 'anything but a USA based entity'. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Clarification
On 24 February 2010 13:13, Mike Schinkel mikeschin...@newclarity.net wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Steven Heath wrote: Implausible? Only if you've never been a party to a lawsuit. It's disgusting what happens when someone who has plenty of money and lawyers on staff can to do those who don't have an infinite war chest to defend, even against frivolous lawsuit, at least in the USA. Thank you for you very long message Stories tend to be longer and opinions. :) about possible risk for an American based entity and outlines in detail some of my reasons for 'anything but a USA based entity'. Hmm. That's wasn't the correctly understood takeaway. That's what happens without a legal entity, not with one. BTW, you are saying you don't have lawsuits in New Zealand? Hmm, this seems to indicate otherwise? http://www.nzlii.org/ That points to *laws* and *case law* not *lawsuits* :-) P.S. Methinks you've got a bit of angst regarding the USA? Just be aware that the USA is filled with people just like NZ, and not all of us prescribe to the Fox News USA can do no wrong mentality. No, NZ is not a overly litigious country and case law would not support the hypothetical situation you proposed. I will give you an example of the different mindset in NZ. We have a thing called ACC, think of it as workers comp but applies to ALL injuries that occur, be it home, work, hobby etc. As per their own desc Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) provides comprehensive, no-fault personal injury cover for all New Zealand residents and visitors to New Zealand. www.acc.co.nz Workers, employers and the government pay into it and means that you CAN NOT sue for injury occurred, be it at work, on rugby fielded or a car crash. Read that again, it is illegal to sue for damages a driver of a car that hits you. If they broke the law they will be charged and go through the the courts and insurance (assuming carried) will cover damage to car and ACC will cover your hospital bills and rehab costs. Or in turn you have work place accident and employer has unsafe machinery then they will be charged etc... I know this is off topic but it shows how 'different' America is with regard to legal approach. The sad thing is of course is most Americans do not know any other way so think everyone operates like them. And to shake things up even further is I do not even have health/medical insurance amazing eh? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Setting up coworking space Oxford, UK
On 23 February 2010 03:03, John - White October johnwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks, We have just moved offices and have more space than we need. Oxford doesn't have any coworking space and we think there is a need for it. However we don't know where to start. What are the legal requirements, what about insurance...where to start?! This type of thing is based on local laws. I would contact other coworking locations in UK and ask about issues. Most of the 'local' law issues for English speaking countries only seems to be USA. Any handy tips would be very useful. Out reach, out reach and then do some more for good measure. Talk to who you think your community is about what they want etc. However often what people say they want they never use. Try to avoid 'build it and they will come'. Each coworking space is different either based on who set it up or the members or scores of other reasons. Get a core group involved and see what it takes to support them, both facilities and cost. Then work out your membership rate from that. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: coworking.com: the next generation
On 21 February 2010 07:18, resourcesuites dan...@resourcesuites.com wrote: i would like to suggest Coworking: the NEW generation. let's cross over the bar, not compete to raise it. Bring on Pepsi as sponsor? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Where can I find info on how to join the Coworking Visa Program
On 9 February 2010 10:20, The Hive PDX rachaelausti...@gmail.com wrote: Hey there, I work for the Leftbank Project (www.leftbankproject.com) in Portland, Oregon. We have a space in our building called The Hive that is dedicated to coworkers. It is in its infancy, but we are looking at ways to raise its awareness. I have been following the trend through articles on the web and Twitter and would love more information on the Visa program... i.e. is there a charge to become a member, what is the process etc. If anyone has any information out there it would be greatly appreciated. I checked out the website www.coworkingvisa.com but it is still under development... Thanks in advance for your help! Go to the coworking wiki and select Coworking Visa link (I moved it other day to the first resource link). Log in (or create an account if first time) select edit link and add your details and bingo, you are in and you can use the new sekret Coworking Visa greeting(*) (*) Do not tell anyone but the greeting is saying 'hi!' to everyone when they walk in! Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Clarification
I don't know what the answer is, but I'm pretty sure the answer is not do nothing. I also think we are all smart and capable people able to come up with an answer that works well if we put our heads together on the matter. Lead us. I was one of the ones saying we needed 'something' to hold this name. However, it very quickly became apparent that we did did not agree on what that 'something' was. I very strongly said I would rather have Alex hold the name in trust for ever rather than having a USA LLC or non profit company created. Some of the reasons are legal (USA law is an arse when it comes to non citizens as shareholders) and some of it is watching creatures like ICANN (use USA law against its own directors) and the other is we are not sure what direction is going to occur. We can wait. All those that have paid up trust Alex to do the right thing. Lets do the deal, bed in an initial website and then decide from that point what to do. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Clarification
I very strongly said I would rather have Alex hold the name in trust for ever rather than having a USA LLC or non profit company created. A trust would be something. But that is a legal entity, also covered by some countries laws, and a trust requires details to be addressed that have not yet been address. And until your email a trust hasn't been explicitly proposed (at least I don't think one has.) It is like a contract, written contract is easier to prove than an oral one. English common law supports the concept of 'in trust' without a Trust Deed being created. I think however that the current set up is 'for now' which leads to your next point. All I'm asking is that we stop debating what *not* to do and start discussing what *to* do. I think we first need to decide on the problem before working on the solution. Alex posted that we seem to have three issues: 1, How to pay for/who owns the domain, long term 2, What kind of entity could exist 3, The definition of coworking I think it is actually bigger than this because as soon as you explore point 2 'entity' you need to review things like funding, membership/shares, voting, directors, legal compliance, yadda yadda yadda. I now present to you pandora's box. We are starting to open that box with this domain name... -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Improving the Google Group
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: TOTALLY agreed. Even if it's a small step in any direction, it's a step; I'd want to migrate all existing content and users, and then put up a we didn't close, we moved! sign on the door to the google group. I do not mind what application we use. However whatever we use I want to be able to use only email to interact. I find many web forums I spend ages looking around seeing what new areas are in it or items posted in wrong categories. Then I get the 'new posting in XYZ, click here to read it!' message. So as long as I can use an email client to experience 99%+ of the system (and not only a real time web interface) then i am fine with it. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Annual Meeting???
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:55 AM, resourcesuites dan...@resourcesuites.com wrote: I think your group is screaming for uniformity, but should develop on your own. I recently presented Frank of ABCN a mindmap of the industry. email me and I can send screaming for uniformity? I think not. if you think all of us want to be just like each other you are sadly mistaken. We share a common belief and have general agreement on values etc. Other than that we all have our unique stamp and approach and any 'uniformity' is not wanted, or needed. For instance last night I had a 2 person company sign up for AltSpace mainly due to the other people here and the openness we offer, both physical and mental. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] e-office
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:30 AM, creativespace c...@thecreativespace.cawrote: Got this today - anyone know about them and why they want info on my space? Hello Chad Please send me info about your space. Kind regards Pier Kind regards Pier Paolo Mucelli eOffice Web: http://www.eOffice.net eBlog: http://www.myeOffice.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/eOffice About year ago they contacted me. They want a fee to promote space and take commission on referrals (seem to recall 495 euro fee and 25% commission). After a few messages back and forth with me expressing lack of value in his offering and him saying 'I have hundreds of clients' things went down hill from that point. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Open space or offices ?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Open spaces rule, IMO, but it's undeniably hard to get people that are used to offices interested in open space. I think it simply attracts a different kind of person. More open the better. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Open space or offices ?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Jerome Chang jer...@blankspaces.com wrote: Hi - thanks. Produced in-house. It's L.A., so there are a lot of resources and talent here. :-D Using that approach I should have lots of Naavi starring in my (in pre prod) videos*. * All SFX for Avatar was done by Weta Digital and Weta is based in a suburb of Wellington. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] visa
2010/1/20 Bastian Klein bastian.kl...@gmx.de hi, i operate a space in frankfurt/germany. how do i participate in the visa programme? Add your details to http://coworking.pbworks.com/CoworkingVisa It is that easy. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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] Coworking Visa Update (Jan 2010)
Hey folks, Did a quick count on locations in the Coworking Visa Programme. 19 countries with 88 locations. Anyone want to run a pool on when we will hit 100 participating locations in Coworking Visa? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Spam keywords on the Coworking Wiki
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Tara Hunt horsepig...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for letting us know, Todd! I used to have the notifications turned on and turned them off when I couldn't handle the email load any longer. Looks like I should probably turn them one again. :/ Stupid spammers making life unnecessarily complicated. T I have the notifications turned on and skim the changes for spam links and such like. About two hours ago I reverted the home page after two different spammers came in. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Spammer changes on wiki
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:46 AM, coworking i...@theconciergelevel.com wrote: Steven and Karston, thanks for catching the rat. This really is infuriating! If people have talent, spend it doing something helpful...G! Actually the rat was 'Karston'. Another wikiuser Henry did lots of clean up as well. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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] Spammer changes on wiki
Folks, A spammer 14 hours ago made changes to 20+ pages to include spam links. Does the wiki have an easy way to revert to previous page for all changes made by that user? In this case most of the changes have been made back but bunch still are on the site. UserID of spammer was 'Karston'. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@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] Coworking Visa numbers (November)
Hey folks, The Coworking Visa pages are looking great. The following are the current stats: 80 Locations in 17 Countries Areas and numbers of those locations participating in Coworking Visa are follows: USA West Coast: 23 Midwest: 7 East Coast: 12 South: 6 Southeast: 8 Austria: 1 Australia: 1 Argentina: 1 Canada: 3 France: 1 Italy: 3 Ireland: 1 New Zealand: 1 Spain: 4 Switzerland: 1 Thailand: 1 The Netherlands: 2 United Kingdom: 1 Uruguay: 1 Pakistan: 1 Panama: 1 If you would like to be a part of the Coworking Visa just include your details on the Wiki under the right region in the Coworking Visa pages. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Online Resource Manager
I looked at divvy but at the time was not what I wanted. I played round with MindBody but the interface was to be honest narf and 1997 keep calling asking for their look feel back. I used a open source system which is fine, its not fantastic but does the trick. Create meetings, userid's rooms (and can do desks as well) all world readable but only users can CRUD. It does not have cookie support (so log on iteachtime) and it is not flash but it works. http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/ We did mod it at the time as how it handled passwords was very simple. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Online Resource Manager
So, if anyone wants some help to wrap their heads around implementing MB for coworking, let me know. Because the core concept of thinking of your desks as instructors (MB is made for yoga studios, etc.) is really difficult. Jerome has suggested MindBody several times and I think it does everything a coworking location would want. When you know this is aimed at a person/room combo (ie book your fav instructor in your fav room) it can apply to coworking easy. I spent time working on the demo, setting up my own site on it and just could not understand why their interface was so crap for a paid service. The other downside is that MindBody was referring me to a 'local' partner with my questions as I am in New Zealand. This 'local' partner was like being in LA and being referred to a company with its only office in Montreal. They also did not understand any of my comments about being able to make the interface any better (but all emails talked about ability to customisation to any look and feel) and seemed to want to charge more than if I went online and signed up on the main website. The ability to issue cards, do credit cards online, POS and such like is still a plus but not enough for me to put up with their interface. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Fundraising for CoWorking Space in Munich, Germany
We calculated that as an initial investment we need minimum 50.000 Euros for creating the CoWorking space (and having some money to run it for a few month). This excludes any employees for the space and includes not much investment for refurbishment etc. Now the idea is to find some persons who all together invest this 50.000 Euros by founding a corporation which will create and run the space. Of course this has the disadvantage that it is a hard job to coordinate 50 partners... 50k Euro on what? It is really easy to spend other peoples money. What is the pay back for something investing this money? Also what are these 50 'partner' are they people interested in using the coworking space? Also what are the employee costs for as if you have 50 'partners' you can share the load among them for day to day things. If you have 50 possible members I think this is your angle. These are your cadre to start with and you should work with them on whats needed as opposed to wanted and what fees they are willing to pay. From that approach you can work out if you need to spend 50k and what your ops costs will be. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Fundraising for CoWorking Space in Munich, Germany
It includes: * Rent deposit (~7.500 Euro) This is the norm in Germany (In NZ the deposit is the first month rent). * Rent for the first six month (~18.750 Euro) This is OpEx. I agree it should be costed it is not a startup cost. * Renovation (~5.000 Euro] This depends on the space I guess but seems ok. * Furniture [~12.000 Euro) Wow that seems huge. I fitted out my space 15 months ago with 15 new really nice desks and meeting room tables for about $5k NZ (2500 Euro). What are you planning to buy? * Electric devices (Coffee, Printer etc.) (~ 3.000 Euro) * Operations (Cleaning, Phone, Internet etc.) for the first month/weeks (~2.000 Euro) This is OpEx not startup cost. * Marketing (~2.000 Euro) This is OpEx not startup cost. So my quick review has you need about 20k Euro to setup. The rest should be funded out of income. It is really easy to spend other peoples money. What is the pay back for something investing this money? Of course it makes no sense to acquire outside investors. As stated in the blog article this investors/partners are a great chance to extend the network etc. Of course I will be one of these partners! Also what are these 50 'partner' are they people interested in using the coworking space? We do not know the partners, yet. But yes, they should be havily interested in using a CoWorking space. Additionally I think we could generate some dividend (say 5%). I read that you already have 50 interested people. Also what are the employee costs for as if you have 50 'partners' you can share the load among them for day to day things. Every partner has its own business. I do not think it's possible to run the space by this partners. That is an opportunity for the start. But after some time the space must run by itself without having the partners invest more and more (time and/or money) in it! You will be surprised on what people will do if you ask them and they are involved in the process. If you have 50 possible members I think this is your angle. These are your cadre to start with and you should work with them on whats needed as opposed to wanted and what fees they are willing to pay. That is catch-22... just talking about a space it not enough. We need a way to get it running - and this requires money. The calculation I did is one of the cheapest way we can do it! It makes no sense to talk about possible business modells if there is no money to build the space. In turn it makes no sense to talk about the cost if you don't have the model! I suggest get all the people that have shown interest and ask 1, what do they need in the office, 2, how much will they pay, 3, assume half join up in the first 3 months, 4, use them for your OpEx numbers to see if you can pay rent. If you cant you either bootstrap it or you start the process again and increase members, increase fees, reduce costs or mixture of all of them. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Coworking Visa update.. more places more countries
Folks, Thought I would share that a few people have helped clean up the Corking Visa pages. It looks much better and with a quick review almost all the locations have details and are up to date. Also easier to find places by geographic area. I had to use all my fingers and toes and that of the person next to me twice over to tally up the current Coworking Visa participants. We are up to (drum roll please...) 76 sites in 17 countries. List your coworking location today and we will waive the setup fee! :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] AltSpace anniversary and new office warming
Hey all, AltSpace is now 15 months old and in August moved to a new shiny office that is double the size, has aircon that freaking works and amazing views from New Zealand's Habour Capital. So you are all more than welcome to join us on October 22nd from 4pm NZDT onwards. If case you can't join us on the night here are a couple of pics I took when we first moved in which is late winter here. http://www.twitpic.com/eirxk http://www.twitpic.com/eirlm -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Lockers for Members?
They are gym size, 4 high so about 1 metre high each (that's three feet to you imperial users). Am I reading that correctly? They are 4 meters/~12 feet high? You are but I fudge the numbers too much. They are only 1.8 metres high and each of them 40 cm (6 feet and 1.5 feet) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Shared coffee at coworking spaces?
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Raul Pacheco hummingbird...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Please forgive the question if it's deemed too dumb, but I am writing a blog post on whether having a centralized caffeine supply (read - coffee machine) where all members of a coworking space can get coffee is a community-building element/factor. Would you agree? Maybe I'm just crazy and this kind of conversation is irrelevant, so if this is the case, please ignore my request :-) We have an espresso machine. Members like it. But not sure if would place it in community building aspect however. I place it like having a desk and wifi... basic office supplies :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Lockers for Members?
-- Do you find your members want/need lockers? Yes we have 12 lockers. It was mainly to show that people could lock away their stuff if they had concerns. -- If yes, what percent of members want/need them? Only about 6 are in use. But then again this was more of a emotional aspect for the open work space and keeping stuff private. -- Where did you get them? From a store :-) -- What size(s) did you get? They are gym size, 4 high so about 1 metre high each (that's three feet to you imperial users). -- How many do you have of each? 12, but we can epxand more 4 at a time (one row) -- How much did you pay for them? about 1k NZ ($600ish US) including being shipped and installed onsite. -- Do members store anything unexpected in them that you know of? (i.e. besides laptops) Some private papers and some whiskey -- Did you buy new or used, or get them donated or other? new -- Do you allow them to have their own locker, only share them, or both? Private use with us having a master key. -- Do you have lockers that are available only during the day, or 24/7? 24/7 -- Do you charge members extra for lockers? If so, how much? $25 NZ month extra (about $15 US a month) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: partnership agreement (BEAHIVE is expanding)
Basically, they're providing the space and their name and network and I'm providing the name and model and ongoing support and planning (events, programs, etc.). We're both working to get it up and running and then we'll both manage it. Need to figure out the details of that and how to split up expenses and revenues beyond the monthly space rental. Anyone have an agreement to share confidentially? Or just some general thoughts? I am not a lawyer but I do a large amount of contract drafting. As a rule of thumb if either party has to resort to looking at the agreement for enforcement you are all screwed. I would draft a 'one pager' that puts the parties obligations and income/cost sharing into and the process for starting and the key bit, dissolving this partnership. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Bar height work stations
Folks, Is anyone use standing height workbars at any locations? This would be similar to some of the Genius Bar's in Apple stores. You can do stuff online standing up or use a bar stool for longer usage. I have a wall that would be ideally for this but wondering if anyone has tried it. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Coworking visa locations
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Tony Bacigalupo tonybacigal...@gmail.comwrote: Incredible! We've had a bunch of people come through NWC and it's been an absolute pleasure. How should we go about handling spaces that have closed or fallen off? Presumably, they will not be maintaining this page with any consistency. This is a general challenge of maintaining a wiki. Perhaps someone would like to do a semi-regular walkthrough of the participating spaces and check in with them to make sure they're still in? Or have each space's participation automatically expire after 12 months unless they respond to a request to renew? I was thinking of cleaning up the page and also flicking off emails to those locations where the detail is a bit spare or in some cases wrong links. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: advice on dealing with a loud co-worker
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Amen to that, including the Massive Attack Pandora station. This was looking good until I found out Pandora does not allow non US access :-( Anyone have ideas for similar service for us none USA based? Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] coworkingvisa.com
Noticed in the comments of the coworking visa page that someone had coworkingvisa.com and had plans for it. Any update or details on that from the person that has it? Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re [Coworking] Re: Standard lease length
I would avoid the term lease as in many countries this implies many legal things. AltSpace works on monthly. The first month is until the day of the next month and then we prorate the next month to get them on calendar month billing. We have some members just sign up for a month but they tell us at the time. Fine by us. The rest are on monthly basis. Sometime people drop out with little warning. Had my first member sign up drop out as his employer is having some 'issues' with 'money'. We offer discount for people prepaying 3 and 6 months. About 20% of our members use that approach. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Previous mention of a booking system on list
Folks, Someone about 6 months ago (might been bit more but less than a year) posted that they looked at commercial software that did room bookings and time and such like and had the ability to link into access cards. When I looked at the site it was often used at places doing professional services like day spas where rooms and times were key aspects. I cant find the mention on the list after searching the group. If this rings a bell can the person that posted about it refresh my memory? Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: DIVVY
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM, JeroenR jrieds...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks for this post - first impression is very good! J I played around with this about 6 months ago based on a post from another mention on this list. At the time it did not work for me. I think the divvy guy actually emailed me asking for input etc. He seemed very keen and pro coworking. Based on comments in this thread he might have beefed up the areas that were lacking for me (and off hand I cant recall what they were :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: How far away do you live from a coworking space?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, BrianR anon...@gmail.com wrote: To learn a bit more about WHERE coworking spaces can work I've created a survey. Please fill it out when you have a moment. It's short. http://flur.be/11 The results can be viewed in reports here. http://flur.be/12 You can even download the raw data. I Don't care about non USA locations which now are close to half of coworking spaces around the world? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: How far away do you live from a coworking space?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:52 PM, BrianR anon...@gmail.com wrote: Steven, I do care. I made a honest mistake. My apologies. Here is a new separate survey with a field for country. http://flur.be/14 This is the live report for the new survey. http://flur.be/13 Most excellent. Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: How far away do you live from a coworking space?
p.s. what is the source for your I missed this until I sent followup. I am guessing you are asking about meeting room booking software? It was a PHP opensource product that I found and then we had to tweak as it was storing pwd in PHP code so we spent the 2-3 hours to change it to mySQL. Cant recall the name of it but I do like it. Once installed never had to look at it again. Admin users can create users on the fly and assign pwd. If anyone wants details I will did it up and maybe even package up the code for ppl to grab. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Crisis management: One day to the opening and the floor is totally messed up.
Best of luck. We're rooting for you! That term has a very different meaning in many English speaking countries :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Coworking Euro Tour 09
Hey folks, I will be in UK (May), northern France, Belgium, Netherlands and parts of western Germany (early to mid June). I would would love to visit any coworking places or chat to those thinking of starting one up. AltSpace (coworking location in Wellington, NZ) has been running almost 9 months and it is time to get out and about. Replies of list would be great. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Systems
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Chris Conrey con...@chrisconrey.com wrote: We use a very complicated post it note system. If you want the room write your name and times on a post it note and stick it on the door. Being able to book are room remote was a key thing for us. We are using an opensource system which can be found at: www.altspace.co.nz/members Anyone can see the rooms but only members can make a booking. We had the tweak the code to not hardcode in passwords in PHP but in a database. Doing that and deploying it took about a day. It has worked great so far and not had any issues. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Right Site, Wrong Market
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Philippe Chetrit pickledpic...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Wendy. I appreciate your insight and comments. However, I am looking for a site geared more towards coworking spaces and less towards executive office suites. I think each respective target market is different. Do you know of listing service for coworking spaces? The coworking wiki? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: It only takes 10
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Mike Pihlman m...@telbitconsulting.comwrote: It is nice to have a goal10 seems very achievable. Thanks for this ! Two questions: 1. Is there one day of the week that you all find is busier than the others? 2. Have you ever run out of seats on a busy day? Friday is our busiest day. We have come close to running out of desks only once (and it was a Friday :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Coworking Space on tropical island in Panama - with accommodation
The commute to the office is a bitch thou :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Security considerations?
All members AltSpace have a key and a security card. The key is for the door and the card for the building. They pay a bond of $150 for this which is returned should they return the keys. They can come and goes as they please, we do not have any staff to 'man reception'. I normally 'open up' but if no one is in the office then the door is locked when the last person leaves. We offer lockers (like gym lockers) that members can rent for a small fee in case they want something more secure as we recommend that things of value are not left on the desks. That being said gear is left out including monitors, notebooks etc (including my own kit). We have not had an issue, most people that joined have either been word of mouth or trialled the space and before getting keys have to pay the bond plus a months rate in advance. The building does have cameras in the common areas which if worst came to worst we could access and I have also told members that if something 'bad' happens that I will install movement activated camera on the front door. I do not expect to have to do either of these things. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Insurance
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Tony Bacigalupo tonybacigal...@gmail.comwrote: Mike, You must have insurance if you intend to run a coworking space as a business (as opposed to just gathering in cafes). The joys of not being in America. None of this 'business license' or 'must get insurance' or 'must hold one foot in the air on a Thursday' I have been thinking for past week or three that this list almost needs to frame questions with regard to coworking in general or compliance relating to the USA. The later ranges from tax issues (city, state, and federal), liability, insurance, licensing, and host of other things. More just thinking out loud than anything else as the international aspect of coworking appears to be booming (at a higher rate than within US thou I am not sure). My 2 cents (NZ :-) -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607, 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Space Size
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:42 AM, David Kominsky davidkomin...@gmail.comwrote: CubeSpace is I think the largest of the coworking spaces at just over 13,000 sq ft. I'd echo everyone else's comments about it being easier to scale up...we are not yet at breakeven because of the size of our rent. On the other hand, it does allow for more, and easier growth. Definitely a balance, but one I might lean the other way on next time (i.e., start somewhat smaller). AltSpace in Wellington NZ has been running for 7 months now on a 130 Sq meter space (about 1400 sq feet). We managed to get a 1 year lease with option to renew. I am now mulling to look for a another location and deciding if the extra cost and the hassle is worth it or just keep the current lease going. As I provided major discounts until end of 2008 I did not hit cash flow positive until start of Feb (which I had allowed for). Currently have 5 full time and 13 part time (two signing up this week) with desks for 13. Some of the part timers are so part time we hardly see them but they still love the place and are my biggest referrers of potential new members. A comment was made about ability to cover costs for a small place. At this stage I have the other opinion, how do the 5,000+ places cover their costs?!?!? -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067 www.foxbane.co.nz Suite 607 29 Brandon St Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: I'm Outta Here! - Book about coworking
2009/2/21 Tony Bacigalupo tonybacigal...@gmail.com Hey everybody! As many of you know, I've been working with Todd Sundsted and Drew Jones on a book that centers on the coworking concept. I'm happy to say that, after over a year of researching, writing, rewriting, editing, laying out, and editing some more, we're ready to share the book with you all! The book is called *I'm Outta Here: How coworking is making the office obsolete*, and you can get it here: http://imouttaherethebook.com I see on the blog you mention maybe soft copy. I checked out and found slow post was going to be nearly $10 US for postage. Making the book about one weeks worth of coworking usage at AltSpace :-) See little point in shipping dead tree all the way over the pacific when we already have dead trees here! -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 AltSpace: Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Charter members
The approach we took was to create a Foundation Member that if they paid for 3 months got a 25% discount until end of 08 and an on going 10% discount for all future membership plans. Some did not take it as they wanted to try it for a month. This worked out ok as after 6 months have had no one leave the space. The biggest thing we have faced is that our Residents (full timers) are in equal number to our Nomads (part timers). Thus revenue wise we are doing better than expected but total members are less than we hoped. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 AltSpace: Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Sustainability
2009/1/27 ourspacefortwa...@gmail.com ourspacefortwa...@gmail.com How do you sustain your memberships? Specifically how do you keep the current members happy and at your location? I guess the key thing is do you mean sustain paying members or those that are testing the waters for free? If you are losing paying members then you need to look at your model, a combination of services provided for the cost and the location. If you are having trial members leave then you need to ask them about why it does not suit them and what you can do to meet their requirements (if they are reasonable and might apply to others). In the 6 months since I have launched (and I went from 'hey lets do this' to 'wow we have an open space' in 6 weeks) I have not had a single paying member leave. That being said I have a guy from the US that will only be here for a few months (he found us via Coworking Visa link on another site!) I have had many many people say they will join up and never have. But when push comes to shove people normally value what they pay for, if things come free then people often treat it with far less value. I know many coworking sites do free days and drop ins and that works for them and the drop ins in different ways. I recently added a wifi laser printer and a VOIP based speaker phone for 'free' use by members as several of my members asked for this type of thing. Some will never use them and some will use them far more, but everyone is happy that they could use them if they want for extra cost. Take care -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 AltSpace: Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Coworking
Other great info might be: 1. total square footage 130 sq metres (that is about 1400 sq feet). This excludes common area on the building which can be 20% of your leased area. 2. $/sqft NZ $300 a sq metre a year. This includes all costs such as power. (about NZ $27 a sq foot PA or about US $15 a sq foot) 3. # of private offices in relation to open desk space none. have a large and small meeting room that can be used, but not to camp in. 4. location (e.g. retail, residential, office) right down down. Wellington is not a large city however. 5. any other considerations that I am sure I am overlooking Fit out costs. My place was a former employment lawyer so I did not have to pay a penny for fit out as it was fit for our needs. -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 AltSpace: Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Links to your space or space in progress
2008/11/11 Tara Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey all, I'm trying to keep the list of the spaces on the coworking site up to date: http://coworking.info I think I may have missed a few. If you are missing off of that sidebar, drop your space name, location and url in the reply message and I'll make sure you get added. AltSpace Suite 607 29 Brandon Street Wellington New Zealand www.altspace.co.nz Thanks -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 AltSpace: Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: Co-Working Directory
You can find it here: http://wurkspaces.com/ Be nice if non American locations could be supported. The rest of the world does not use 5 digit post codes and this site has it as a mandatory field. My first thoughts is it does seem to dup much of the wiki (thou a page on the wiki of active/open sites would be an improvement). -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.altspace.co.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: New Work City membership agreement - version 1
If anyone out there would like to give it a once-over and let me know if anything looks amiss, it would be very much appreciated! We'll be printing out a bunch of these later today in advance of an event for New Work City tonight. I am always amazed at these clauses: Non-Disparagement. You shall, during and after the participation in and use of the Services, refrain from making any statements or comments of a defamatory or disparaging nature to any third party regarding NEW WORK CITY, or any of NEW WORK CITY's officers, directors, employees, personnel, agents, policies, services or products, other than to comply with law. I only ever see them from US companies. I happen to think that clause contradicts the coworking 'values'. This is a gag clause, nothing less than that. Just my 2 cents. -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.altspace.co.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Coworking Visa blurb
Hey all, I made a one pager on the AltSpace website about the coworking visa programme. http://www.altspace.co.nz/visa/ I think the wiki should have two pages (or areas). One of those spaces involved in the programme with location details and another more for space owners for detail and verification. -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.altspace.co.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: Biz Plan Help Needed ASAP!
I'll also add-- don't fret if this deal doesn't work out. You may very well set a record for shortest time between conception and doors opening, but oftentimes it's a slow burn (wouldn't I know it ;-)). I must be close to setting a record. From deciding to create a space in early June to doors opening on August 1st :-) -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.altspace.co.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Re: Coworking Visa blurb
2008/9/12 Jacob Sayles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven, Looks great! We need to put a page like this on our website too. Any chance you can make the space names links? Would be easy. Can do that today. Not sure the wiki needs to be anything more then it is now. Folks can make a pretty version if they care to but simplicity is key for the central repository. I just think it is a bit messy as it is aimed a both users and members. I am not that fussed either way thou. You may be getting a visitor from our space soon. Campbell is a native of your fine country and he was super excited to hear we are partnering with a space in Wellington. But of course. You can't lift a rock without finding a kiwi under it :-) -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting www.foxbane.co.nz Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.altspace.co.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Coworking Visa logo mockup
Heck all, On a quiet Friday afternoon we mockedup an idea for the Coworking 'logo'. http://altspace.co.nz/img/generic-visa.gif Thought each space could put branding/logo in the middle kinda like this http://altspace.co.nz/img/altspace-visa.gif Comments? -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.altspace.co.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[Coworking] Introduction from New Zealand
Hey all! I have been on this group for about a week or two and thought it was time for a big wave to everyone. I started looking into creating a coworking space in Wellington (New Zealand) in May and now find myself launching on August 1st with a space. I am busy finding desks, meeting tables and drafting membership/application forms Comments on this group and the wiki have been very helpful. Take care all. -- Steven Heath Director Foxbane Consulting Cell: +64 21 706-067 Interested in Coworking in Wellington? Check out www.TheDen.net.nz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
