Hi Michelle,
I'm a entrepreneur in-the-making (currently for a short time I'm in an
office in the loop, bleh) and I'm more on the business/consulting
side, and through looking for different ideas for office-space away
from home. I previously worked from home before for about two years,
and had a great Internet social life, but something was missing...
then I found out about coworking. Wow, I would love to set something
like this up in the city.
Although I'm in a totally different field than you, I would be
interested in staying up to date on what you're thinking for coworking
in Chicago (looks like you are in Evanston), and likewise I'll let you
know if I get anything going. I live in Andersonville, but location
is something I'll have to work on... all I have thought so far is
"somewhere between Andersonville, where I live, and the south loop...
Finally, I can't believe that there isn't more buzz about this in
Chicago. I think it could have huge potential here, and I hope to be
involved in getting a group going.
Best Regards,
Joel
On Mar 31, 11:21 am, Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a graduate student in Chicagoland who is broadly interested in
> computers and education, and was wondering if anyone had advice or
> experience with coworking communities that mix, for example,
> researchers and businessfolks/entrepeneurs/interesting people, or
> something of that sort. I and my colleagues are interested in
> developing and democratizing (so making - and more importantly,
> teaching kids how to make their own) technologies in schools, but I
> feel like just an occasional chat with someone who isn't caught up in
> the academic jargon, and who really understands the pragmatic issues
> around software development, or consumers, or any of that business
> stuff we know very little about (or can just keep me up to date with
> the tech stuff that's available out there... why did it take me so
> long to learn about django?) could really help. We have our own mini
> community among a few of us ("work parties"), but I feel like talking
> with and being around people who care about the same things that we
> care about, but come at it from different angles, would really help.
> At this point I'm just wondering how to find out whether there are
> people interested in working around and chatting with others who are
> passionate about similar topics so that we can stay excited and fresh
> about our work, and how to find them. I've noticed that the sr-grad-
> student slump... working alone at home or in that familiar corner of
> Bros K (as great as that place is) can get really tough for people
> (especially when you really just want to geek out or show off some
> code and no one knows what you're talking about!)... and that just
> remembering that people are interested can really motivate people to
> do great things.
>
> -Michelle
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