Gosh, Jeff, that is a very cool suggestion! Sounds a bit like what we were trying to do with Winecamp...although it was more generally about non-profits.
LOVE the idea. So, when are you shooting for? Tara On 7/1/07, jeffarch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings! > > Excuse the brain dump, but I'm going to repost some info from other > sites and discussions I've had recently. My goals are very similar to > what I've read about coworking, but with a few added dimensions. All > this is mostly just brainstorming on my part, but is indeed an option > for the facilities I have available. > > --- > This is a post I made a couple years ago on my fossilized > http://www.openideaproject.org/ site: > > Organic farming meets Free & Open Source Software? Learn organic > farming during a "guerilla coding" retreat. Learn programming, > networking and other home-grown computer skills while building an > organic garden. > > Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) IS the computer world's organic > gardening. They would be like whole grain bread and thermal > grease...perhaps not. Both tend to favor non-commercial, royalty/ > patent/IP safe, collaborative methods. > > Combine these ideas to get geeks eating organic produce and organic > farmers building wifi mesh networks. > > World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF - http://www.wwoof.org/) > is an organization that provides volunteers to work and learn on > organic farms in exchange for room and board. Programmers and other > technologists who believe in FOSS often work to fund their > contributions. Given the opportunity to "code for food", would many > geeks go for it? Free broadband! > > Host sites would provide room and board as well as equipment, > materials, and transportation. Some WWOOF hosts are open to volunteers > even during the winter months. Volunteers, for example, could > contribute 5 6-hour days with one day a week doing "something else". > This could help foster a spirit of "knowledge sharing". This could be > putting up a tower for wifi antennas or deer-resistant fencing to help > protect crops, teaching a class, firewood fetching, facility > construction, or other community needs. > > Other volunteer opportunities could exist such as camp staff, tour > guiding, or custodial work at community sites. > ---- > > >From an IRC discussion on freenode's #esp last night: > > "One of the things that came to mind regarding > http://wiki.espians.com/Day_Riva > and coworking, wrt WWOOF, is the aspect of building a location from > scratch in the "typical" coworking situation as well as harvesting > trees, making lumber, building structures, and more... really > bootstrapping, and dealing with the same processes elsewhere." > > ---- > > So the general idea is coworking to build a rural coworking space in > rural upstate NY. It would share the "traditional" coworking day-use > venue facilities with lodging, facilities for small seminars, > conferences, and retreats. There would also be facilities for > artists, writers, and the like. The > http://wiki.espians.com/Day_Riva_Setup > page is a list-in-progress of many of the aspects involved in the > planning and development of the project. > > Comments, suggestions, and more brainstorming is appreciated. > > Jeff Archambeault > jjarchambeault at gmail dot com > > > > > -- tara 'miss rogue' hunt co-founder & CMO Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) blog: www.horsepigcow.com phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
