Hey Coworking Peeps! Wondering how many people will be at SXSW in 2008?
Last year, Chris and Tara arranged a meetup during Barcamp Austin and we had a really nice turnout. This year, our community has grown and our movement has a great deal of strength. As I mentioned on the coworking blog, back in July, Patrick Tanguay (Station-C - Coworking Montreal - Opening Feb08) and I worked on a SXSW panel submission with the crew from Citizen Space (as well as some input from Eva @ Cubespace and support from Brian Oberkirch as a possible moderator). "Unfortunately", our panel slipped into the standby pile (still respectable) as far as panels, but last week I emailed the conference event coordinator to get a pulse on the status of our submission, and he clued me in to the new "Core Conversations" model that's been added to the SXSW Interactive conference. Not so unfortunate after all! For those of you familiar with BarCamp (many of you are, since the barcamp movement and the coworking movement have woven themselves into one another...for those who aren't, see barcamp.org), this trial run of a new format for the SXSW team reads ( http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/core_conversations/) a whole lot like that conversational presentation medium that I know I love, and think is a MUCH better fit for the "sharing" type of presentation I'd like this to end up being! There's also an opportunity to continue (or start, depending on the timing) anything from the Core Conversations session at BarcampAustinIII, which, I believe, is taking place right around the corner from the conference center. The session itself is a BIT more general than coworking, as the topic we submitted for general appeal: *Coworking and the Evolution of the Independent Worker *So we have an opportunity to discuss some worker/workplace issues, and why coworking is important for exploring them. If you're involved in coworking at ANY stage: interested in coworking, a space catalyst, a space owner, or an active coworker...drop me a line. I'd like to get a portion of the coworking wiki actively discussing topics that we should bring up during our session, and use that information to best drive the 1 hour slot that we get. I DONT know yet which day, or time slot, we'll recieve but as soon as I know, I'll be happy to share. I'm so excited for SXSW, and hope to meet many of my fellow coworkers there! Cheers, Alex, IndyHall, Philadelphia -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman web.developer.innovation.consultant vocal: 484.597.6256 digital: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | skype: dangerouslyawesome visual: www.weknowhtml.com | www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
