Hey Ricardo - I agree, coffee is never enough. The university has a Costa Coffee nearby, I'd love to be able to pursuade them to open up a smaller one in the coworking space too!
Magazine subscriptions is an interesting one - I have thought about perhaps offering O'reilly's Safari digital bookshelf as an option - that's some immensely useful content :) Bookcrossing is a wonderful idea - something I hadn't considered, but that could also help deepend the bonds between ersidents and draw in others from outside ! It might be useful to talk to local car-on-demand companies like WhizzGo about shared vehicles - there's also a local government sponsored car sharing service too...great ideas Riccardo :) Come and see us if you're ever in the area! On Aug 30, 10:04 am, "Riccardo Cambiassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Imran! > Congratulation, the space looks awesome! > Looking forward to experience it soon at one of the next events. > I like also the proposition of the third space. > > As for facilities, coffee is never enough, have you thought of magazine > subscriptions and/or a library, maybe a bookmooch/bookcrossing driven? > Some sort of shared transportation (rent-a-bike/moto/car) would be ubercool, > and would be complementary to the openstreetmap project (you rent a bike, > openstreetmap gets the gps tracks) but I guess that involves some funding > and privacy issues. > > Good luck, > Riccardo > > On 8/30/07, Imran... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Leeds Met university will shortly be launching a coworking space at > > Old Broadcasting House, a former BBC facility in the heart of the > > city....you can see pictures of f the building at > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/imran/sets/72157600729423009/ > > > The open plan space can house around 30 residents and currently > > includes free wifi, ethernet and nearby cafes as well as meeting rooms > > and AV gear. > > > We want to create a 'third space' - between the home and the office - > > for digital entrepreneurs, technologists, artists, creative > > professionals and independent workers from a diversity of creative > > disciplines...essentially, an office-on-demand service for small > > independent enterprise, a location for student enterprise projects and > > an intersection point for industry and academia to collaborate. > > > We plan to use the public area of Old Broadcasting House as a regular > > meeting point for the city's grassroots web communities > > including OpenCoffee and GeekUp, as well as playing host to grassroots > > 'unconferences' such as BarCamp Leeds, the > > Open Street Mapping project and various free courses. > > > It'd be interesting to find out from the coworking community what > > kinda value-added services can be offered to residents? Social apps, > > hosting, VoIP, open source apps, flowers, coffee, software? > > -- > Riccardo CAMBIASSI > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.codewitch.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
