Small correction: Coworking at Spiral Muse was two days a week. Monday and Tuesday.
Ray Tara Hunt 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> At: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0303/p13s03-wmgn.html > >>> > >>> Steve > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> tara 'miss rogue' hunt > >> coFounder > >> Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com > <http://www.citizenagency.com>) > >> blog: www.horsepigcow.com <http://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 <http://www.citizenagency.com>) > blog: www.horsepigcow.com <http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
