[Coworking] not an employee

2010-03-23 Thread j. p. sweeney
Hey all,

Some friends of mine (and fellow coworkring aficionados) tossed this site up as 
an homage to all the things that keep us going as contractors.  The site is 
gorgeous and I find myself revisiting it from time to time to remind myself why 
I chose this path.  

Here's hoping that someone else will find something worthy of note here as well:

http://notanemployee.net

J.P. Sweeney
Workantile Exchange
Ann Arbor, MI
workantileexchange.com

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Re: [Coworking] not an employee

2010-03-23 Thread j. p. sweeney
Danielle,

Would be happy if you shared it further.  Glad you liked it.

J.P. Sweeney
Workantile Exchange
Ann Arbor, MI
workantileexchange.com


 

On 23 Mar 2010, at 20:07, WHERE MMM wrote:

 This rocks! 
 
 Are you okay with putting up links on our own sites ?
 
 Danielle Nicoli
 WHERE: MMM
 Coworking in LA
 323 663 6636
 
 On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:47 PM, j. p. sweeney 
 james.swee...@workantileexchange.com wrote:
 Hey all,
 
 Some friends of mine (and fellow coworkring aficionados) tossed this site up 
 as an homage to all the things that keep us going as contractors.  The site 
 is gorgeous and I find myself revisiting it from time to time to remind 
 myself why I chose this path.
 
 Here's hoping that someone else will find something worthy of note here as 
 well:
 
 http://notanemployee.net
 
 J.P. Sweeney
 Workantile Exchange
 Ann Arbor, MI
 workantileexchange.com
 
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Re: [Coworking] Electronic Door Locks

2010-01-28 Thread j. p. sweeney
Jacob,

We're finishing up a custom fab system that ties directly into out user 
authentication system.  We've gone through several revisions (arduino based 
initially, now we're Make Controller derived, with other off the shelf 
components and some custom PCBs) that is powered via PoE (makes wiring for 
installation a relative ease) and very nicely allows us to programmatically 
enforce limited access memberships, grant access to meeting rooms based on 
reservations, really just do what ever kind of access restriction you want to 
program.

The doors hardware itself we're getting ready to open source.  The 
authentication calls are all JSON based using AES encryption, so the hardware 
is pretty easy to interface with whatever you want to use on the auth server 
side.

We opted to keep our authentication on an external website because we have a 
nice little load balanced firewall with auto fail over (A nice little atom 
based system running pfSense.  Lots of functionality on the cheap).  If the 
internet is down, the space isn't terribly usable from a work stand point, so 
losing access isn't much of a concern.  That, and with the auto-failover, we're 
pretty fault tolerant as it is.  We're looking at setting up a small internal 
caching server that can do authentication internally, but there hasn't really 
been a need as of yet.

And price per door has wound up being about $150 or so, not too bad. 

James

Workantile Exchange 
http://workantile.com 


On 27 Jan 2010, at 12:15, Jacob Sayles wrote:

 Hello,
 
 This got brought up a few days ago and it got me thinking.  How many places 
 have electronic door lock systems?  We installed an ISONAS system and are 
 pretty happy with it.  It's cheaper then a traditional closed circuit system 
 but it still ran about $4-5K.  I'm wondering what other folks have.  
 
 Jacob
 
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