Tony B (or someone), Could you please publish this in the "best of" section of the google group/wiki? Maybe on the blog, too? I think having clarity of this story as more and more people are looking at this an researching it would be beneficial.
Mostly related, I was SO happy to have Brad a the coworking session that I led at Barcamp Miami this weekend. I got some really great response all weekend long and the Miami scene is looking like it's going to really explode very soon. I like interacting with communities when cool things happen that feel "familiar". -Alex, IndyHall, Philadelphia On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Tara Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been many good stories on coworking in many newspapers across > the US, the best one is probably coming out soon. > > The story we've told a zillion reporters: > > Chris blogged about the need for civic spaces back in early 2005? Chris > will have the reference to that...then he met Brad N who was doing the one > day a week coworking thing at Spiral Muse. The two of them talked. Brad, of > course, wanted to see coworking grow, but he was having a tough time getting > it off the ground. Chris asked if it was okay to take it and run with it and > Brad said, "Of course!" > > Chris first started helping promote Coworking at spiral muse by throwing a > Mashpit there. It was successful, but Chris wanted something bigger. So, we > posted an event on Upcoming for a coworking meetup and a whole bunch of > people showed up! Ryanne and Jay were all over it and we started hunting for > a space, all the time, posting photos, progress, budgets, blog posts, etc. > Brad was really busy at the time, so he actually wasn't involved in the > search, but he did join us as an anchor at The Hat Factory. > > Chris and I made the deal at The Hat Factory with Schlomo and we ran that > as a collective. Didn't work too well and we decided to open Citizen Space, > once again, using an open process. We were also communicating with many > others interested in opening their spaces at the time, traveling in some > cases to meet with them. We would go to BarCamps around the world and talk > about how we were setting up our space. > > When we opened CS, we asked the HF peeps if we could make the coworking > google group (this one) more public. There was a bit of a rouse, but it all > ended fine and they started their own separate list. It really started to > grow from there and soon, we were taking phonecalls and directing people to > this list almost weekly. We wanted to encourage everyone to develop openly. > > Now Alex Hillman, one of the people we helped early on, has taken a huge > leadership role as has Patrick Tanquay as has Jacob Sayles as has many great > people from other spaces. It's no longer a 'Tara and Chris' project, really. > It belongs to anyone, but the growth wasn't accidental. It was very much > deliberate and driven by our passion for spreading it. > > The article makes it sound like there was none of that. > > Tara > > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Geoff DiMasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How did it happen? > > > > I probably should know that. > > > > Geoff > > > > > > On Mar 2, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Chris Messina wrote: > > > > > > > >> 'Every morning, Mr. Neuberg set up tables and waited for coworkers. > > >> > > >> '"For the first two months, no one showed up," he says, laughing at > > >> his > > >> initial hubris. "But people started trickling in and the word > > >> spread." Soon > > >> enough, he had started a movement.' > > > > > > Heh. > > > > > > Well, that's not how it happened, but it's nice prose. ;) > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Tara Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > >> Talk about historical revision! Still...any article promoting the > > >> movement > > >> is good. > > >> > > >> Tara > > >> > > >> > > >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> At: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0303/p13s03-wmgn.html > > >>> > > >>> Steve > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> tara 'miss rogue' hunt > > >> coFounder > > >> Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) > > >> blog: www.horsepigcow.com > > >> phone: 415-694-1951 > > >> fax: 415-727-5335 > > >> > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Chris Messina > > > Citizen-Participant & > > > Open Source Advocate-at-Large > > > Work: http://citizenagency.com > > > Blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog > > > Cell: 412.225.1051 > > > IM: factoryjoe > > > This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > tara 'miss rogue' hunt > coFounder > Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com) > blog: www.horsepigcow.com > phone: 415-694-1951 > fax: 415-727-5335 > > > -- ----- -- ----- 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. 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