www.shu.ac.uk/cgi-bin/newview.pl?record=109 Might be worth contacting the guys who collaborated to make it all happen.
"It is thanks to funding help from the Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)." Might be worth a try too. They don't specify who and why the space should be used unlike the project you mention. It seems to be much more open to all. They seem to have managed to get their 3rd space thinking sorted. I would be interested to know how far they have gone with providing supporting office facilities. If you find out more then would love to know. Joey On Aug 30, 2:56 am, "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 > athttp://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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
