I started this page when we discussed tipsheets a while back: http://coworking.pbwiki.com/Useful%20Posts%20and%20Messages
Feel free to use/rework as you see fit. I know Alex had some starred posts that could be put into here in some sort of organized way. T On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Tara Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good luck Steph! This is awesome. You may want to start with some of the > suggestions from Alex Hillman, Raines Cohen, Tony B, Jacob Sayles et al on > how they started building a local coworking community. > > http://twurl.nl/iu7ava > http://twurl.nl/g7kae4 > > Do we have any tipsheets on the wiki? Maybe that is something we need to > put together. And by we, maybe I should just freakin do it. ;) > > T > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Stephanie Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> First, let me introduce myself. >> >> Stephanie Booth, pink-haired social media thingy and event organiser >> blogging away at Climb to the Stars and now various other places >> (http://friendfeed.com/sbooth will give you the best summary). I live >> in Lausanne, Switzerland, and as a freelance consultant who's often on >> the road, I came to learn about coworking (mainly during my stay last >> summer in SF, with Chris and Tara). >> >> I'm somebody who enjoys working from home, but suffers a bit from lack >> of structure in my days/life at times. I've also been through phases >> of intense work when preparing my conference Going Solo, where I >> wished I had somewhere else to go and work than home. >> >> I'm the kind of person who'd like a place to meet clients, and go and >> Get Stuff Done 3-4 half-days a week. (And also meet human beings I'm >> not necessarily interacting with one-on-one during all the time I'm >> with them.) >> >> I've been talking about coworking in my area for some time now, and >> found some like-minded people, but unfortunately not enough (and not >> enough solid interest) to actually set up a space. One of the issues >> that we deal with here (I really think it's a cultural/regional thing) >> is that people are not ready to commute much (me included). A >> 30-minute commute to work is usually considered a long way away, here. >> As far as coworking is concerned, that means we need to find enough >> interested in a reasonably small geographical area -- and Lausanne, >> second only to Geneva around here, is about 150'000 people, 200'000 if >> I'm generous (correct me if I'm wrong). >> >> So, not to whine, but the situation here is slightly different than in >> the middle of a big metropolis. >> >> Over the last months, I was approached twice with spaces that could be >> suitable for coworking, so I started thinking seriously about putting >> the energy to gather enough people to start a community here. In both >> cases, the space availability didn't work out (funding issues and lack >> of existing community to solve them). So, I decided to keep the idea >> warm, and work on gathering the community "somewhere" so that should a >> suitable space show up, it would be easy to see if enough potential >> tenants were interested. >> >> Coworking, like BarCamp, is a very local thing. But if your "local" is >> too small, nothing much happens. I decided to create a mailing-list >> for interested people in "the area", the latter being loosely defined >> as "around the lake". (Lake Geneva, or Lac Léman -- its real name.) >> There is also a blog, but it's in a very embryonic state at the >> moment. >> >> If you're in Switzerland, or neighbouring France, feel free to join >> our group so you can meet other interested people in your area. >> >> <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking-leman/> >> >> Just now, it seems the tenants of the office space on the ground floor >> of my building are going to be heading out by 2009. They've asked me >> if I was interested in taking over the space. I'm pretty extatic, as >> it seems quite ideal to me: 116m2, calm, accessible by car and public >> transport (5 min by bus from city centre), cheap (700$/mo), has a >> separate room we can turn into a meeting room, and big windows with >> the garden just outside. So, I'm in the process of trying to figure >> out if there are enough people in the Lausanne area for me to take the >> risk of signing the lease :-) >> >> If there are coworking efforts taking place elsewhere in Switzerland, >> I'd be really happy to learn about them! >> >> Cheers >> >> Steph >> (follow the links in the signature for more juicy details about myself) >> >> -- >> Sept 12th: http://going-solo.net | newsletter: >> http://groups.google.com/group/going-solo-news >> geotag: Lausanne, CH (GMT+1) >> web: http://stephanie-booth.com >> blog: http://climbtothestars.org >> skype: steph-booth | cell: +41 78 625 44 74 | twitter: stephtara >> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM: Gummywabbit >> For the rest... 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