[Coworking] Free furniture today and tomorrow in Los Altos, CA

2007-08-23 Thread lizhenry
Lisa has some free furniture in Los Altos, a lot of tall bookshelves, coffee table that is cool and funky, chandeliers, and other stuff. The place is getting rid of stuff and it has to be picked up or go to Goodwill tomorrow. The office is at San Antonio and El Camino. If you want it, email her

[Coworking] Re: Who's Going To Burning Man?

2007-08-23 Thread Berislav Lopac
Just a little tangent here: The majority of the speakers on http://webstart.ini.hr was local, with only two fully from abroad (and a couple "semi-locals"). This is one aspect of diversity which we tried to enforce most (Chris here even got me in contact with people from Mozilla who promised to se

[Coworking] Re: Who's Going To Burning Man?

2007-08-23 Thread Berislav Lopac
Chris and Hillary, thanks for the great and thoughtful posts on the topic which I admittedly hijacked the group with. Your respective points are quite valid, and I whole heartedly agree with most of them -- I'd just like to add and clarify on some. Chris: > This is the argument against affirmativ

[Coworking] Re: Who's Going To Burning Man?

2007-08-23 Thread Stephen Collins
On 23/08/2007, at 3:16 AM, Chris Messina wrote: > If anyone does find this thread uninteresting, please say so; > typically I would ask for a topic like this to be moved off list, but > I do think that there are ideas in here that apply to coworking and to > the development and nurturance of our c

[Coworking] Re: Who's Going To Burning Man?

2007-08-23 Thread Hillary Hartley
Sing it sister!! Errr...Chris. :) 1) Who are you and where did you come from?? 2) Can we grow more of you??? A few random thoughts (and I fear it's too late to be making sense, but I really want to respond to your amazing post)... > my view of diversity -- of what diversity is -- is actually