I've got to imagine that Girafflabs (in seattle) would be keen to participate.
Reading the original email and the rest of this thread, it is almost more like a "visa" system than simply a passport. With each coworking space offering different "visas" which allow for dfferent types of usage or terms of use Julie wrote: > In my opinion, the more global, the better! > > Julie Duryea > http://www.soukllc.com > > On Aug 24, 2:10 am, Tijs Teulings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is this something you would want to expand to a worldwide scale? We >> would love to be in as well, Nomadz is located in The Hague, The >> Netherlands. An area with a lot of expats, so US workers looking for >> temp space do probably come by here now and then. Like Citizenspace we >> already offer free drop-ins so we would not have to change any rules >> on our side. >> >> Tijs >> nomadz.nl >> >> On 22 aug 2008, at 21:06, Julie wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Space Owners, >>> >>> Susan of Office Nomads in Seattle and I (in Portland) have been toying >>> with the idea of letting our members work in the other's space if/when >>> they travel between Portland & Seattle (spurred by a few member >>> requests + some frequent traffic between our two PNW cities). >>> >>> I know I've gotten many member requests about where to work when I'm >>> in in fill-in-the-blank city. Example: Just last week, one of souk's >>> repeat meeting room users was looking for a meeting room in San >>> Francisco and called me saying, "I need a souk in SF!". I hit the >>> wiki list and checked for spaces with meeting rooms and referred her >>> to a couple. >>> >>> If you are experiencing this and want to expand upon it, Office Nomads >>> and I have come up with some simple terms to start communicating to >>> our members that while we're not 24 hour fitness all-club, our mobile >>> workers have options. >>> >>> SIMPLE. Repeat, SIMPLE. For simplicity's sake, and lack of real >>> data, and taking into account how each space varies from drop-in and >>> meeting room availability (O.N. and souk offer both) and tracking >>> systems, we've decided to allow members of our spaces to do up to 3 >>> daily drop-ins to each other's space. Again, to keep it simple, we'll >>> leave it up to the space what they offer after 3 daily drop-ins, as >>> well as leave it up to the space whether that drop-in may include >>> meeting room usage and/or discounts on meetings - and certainly caveat >>> to our respective members that spaces vary in terms of offerings (not >>> cookie cutter). Can we agree though, that those first 3 drop-ins are >>> free? At least Susan and I have ;) >>> >>> Side note: If there are any questions as to whether that person is >>> actually a member of the space they claim, we believe we should all >>> feel free to email each other to verify. Though, it's difficult to >>> imagine this would be abused. >>> >>> Of course, we're certainly not looking to make this exclusive to the >>> west coast by any means. At the same time, we recognize that Seattle >>> and Portland are not a hotbed of cross-country and international city >>> hoppers. Non-west coasters & USA space owners though, please chime >>> in. Please! >>> >>> At the very least we see this move and "offer" to our existing and >>> future members as a message for how coworking spaces are connected, >>> and that mobile workers (mavericks) can have "home bases" when they >>> travel, not to mention a move to formalize some great cross marketing. >>> >>> If you want to be included, just holler here. If you're in, Susan and >>> I will communicate that out to our members. We recognize that there >>> may be many t's to cross and i's to dots here, but aim to get this >>> simple move underway asap between the two of us. You too? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Julie Duryea >>> >>> Julie Duryea >>> owner, souk >>> 322 nw 6th avenue, suite 200 >>> portland, oregon 97209 >>> p | 503.517.6900 >>> f | 503.517.6901 >>> skype julieduryea >>> http://www.soukllc.com >>> tweet julsd >>> >> -- >> Tijs Teulings >> tel: +31645004824http://tijs.org >> > > > > -- ---- Gregory Heller http://www.GregoryHeller.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
