Hi: I just signed up for this group, and, per instructions, I'm starting out by sending a message to the group. I only recently learned about coworking, having visited a space in Columbus, OH, while visiting relatives.
If I may put one question or idea out there, concerning those "coworkers" (if there is a proper term for this, please let me know...) who do computer programming - related work. I thought it would be nice to develop an archive for coworkers to introduce themselves and present some code that they do not mind making public, along the lines of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), Boost, etc. The difference about a coworking - related archive, aside from it being open to any language or application domain, would be that coders could optionally provide a location where they could be found -- I've often found myself wishing I could talk in person to whomever wrote code that I am browsing or using from the internet, and it might help those of us looking for "clients" for our coding efforts find an audience ... Anyhow, I'm involved with a programming group for the Perl language, and such an archive might be a good project to demonstrate the powerful of modern Perl development techniques, particularly with respect to parsing code from different language -- a next-generation code archive could provide user-customized syntax highlighting, language-construct specific searching (i.e., search among classes, method names, etc.), etc., a kind of miniature IDE in a browser. My question is whether there are any programmers out there who think this is a worthwhile project and whether there would be enough people around the web who would "sign up" (i.e., contribute code...). Well, perhaps that's a grandiose suggestion given that I'm a newbie to coworking, but that's the kind of project I'd like to work on, so I thought I'd mention it and see whether anyone has comments / suggestions. Aside from that, I'd certainly like to led a hand to get a Brooklyn cowork space open (my understanding is that this group is being used to try and promote that). Let me know if I can contribute somehow to the web site or databases or whatever relevant ... and thanks for your attention. I look forward to following the traffic and developments in this group. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
