Hi all:
In doing our planning for an Atlanta Coworking space we are finding that the Atlanta geography doesn't lend itself to one central location where everyone is wiling to be. That is probably true anywhere, but in Atlanta with poorly planned public transit and no natural boundary (i.e. no mountains, big rivers, or oceans) it is especially bad because we are spread out all over the place. Fortunately there is somewhat of a concensus on Midtown (which doesn't both me because I live in Midtown :-) but there are factions vying for other locations. We briefly entertained the idea of multiple concurrent spaces but it will be hard enough to launch one space let alone two or three. However yesterday I met with a former entrepreneurs and current mayor of a town east of Decatur called Avondale Estates and he has a ~2000 sqft house that he bought to turn into an incubator and is now considering making it a coworking space. The problem is that from our list of people who are interested almost nobody would travel to Avondale Estates although I'm sure there could be people in Decatur I don't know cultivated to use it. During our discussions the idea of federating came up, i.e. making it possible for "members" of either facility to be able to go to the other facility kind of how like members of the YMCA when they were independent could go to any YMCA. So how are those of you in cities with a large number of people handling this? Have you thought of any kind of federation within a city? -Mike Schinkel President; NewClarity LLC Organizer: Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeschinkel http://mikeschinkel.com http://atlanta-web.org P.S. And while I'm on the subject, have any of you thought about federation across cities, i.e. to allow members from one city to use space in other cities? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
