[Coworking] Re: Consulting

Hey Em, There are several of us that have been coworking consultants for the last few years. Some of the most active ones that I'm aware of are Angel of Cohere, Alex of IndyHall, Tony from New Work City, Jacob of Office Nomads, and I do as well. Check out this group and our blogs for some great

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

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

[Coworking] Re: Private Office and Coworking Help Needed

> > All three of these responses have been a good approach. Anyone that is > working there is a member. We have done what Rachel explained and set a > limit for the private office at 4, generally. If they wish to have > additional people attend their office then they have to buy an additional

Re: [Coworking] Cohousing and Coworking

Alex, Cohousing goes a lot faster (though still more slowly than coworking which you can ostensibly do anywhere) when you have a developer like Jim Leach (of Wonderland Hill ) backing you. He's been doing cohousing (mostly in the Western USA) for a long time and has create

[Coworking] Re: Cohousing and Coworking

Late addition to this thread but one of the interesting things about cohousing is that about 70% of cohousers are introverts - i.e. they feel energized doing things alone. Most of the folks I know in cohousing love being around other people but want to escape to their home. The equivalent cowo

[Coworking] Re: Cohousing and Coworking

Wendy, Before establishing our coworking space (Fuse) in Boulder I attempted something on a smaller scale at Wild Sage Cohousing. We had a big office in our common house that was essentially being used for storage and the finance team's needs. I repurposed it and got it set up with a few desks

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

Wish I had a more technically helpful answer, but as a coworking member, the most impressive solution I've seen is at the Grind in NYC. Members there use a card to tap themselves in every day, and photo profiles of all checked-in members appear in a private online directory and elegantly on a l

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

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

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

Awesome feedback guys - thank you! -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Markwell < jonathan.markw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to > think about WiFi. It's the only networking h

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

I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets close to an Apple-like Just Works experience. We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs sharing the load - I've never stre

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

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

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

We ran a couple Ubiquity routers at The Coop. They were our saving grace after a bunch of trials with other hardware. We've got two AP's and we have no issues on average managing 200+ connections. Sam Desktime powers Coworking. http://desktimeapp.com On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Kyle McLaren

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

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

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

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

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

Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is the