Tony, I suppose I should blog more. We have been running http://gangplankhq.com as a community centered model for almost two years. That is, no one pays rent or membership and it's open to everyone. I hope to announce some additional goodness to the list in the next few months. If all goes well we should be announcing a major public partnership to fund co-working as well as a major university sponsorship to announce publicly funded co-working on a major university campus. By the end of the year we hope to have two working publicly funded models that fit the "community center" or "library" model.
I don't know who mentioned it before, but a conference or meetup on Co-Working would be pretty cool. Im too opinionated so generally don't talk much on the list as I think real estate models are actually counter to the spirit of co-working and membership models are difficult to do right. Just wanted to validate your thoughts Tony and say that it's entirely possible. -- Derek Neighbors Gangplank On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Tony Bacigalupo<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > > So rarely do I start a thread! On the occasional Saturdays when I am not > traveling, I often end up thinking-- which sometimes winds up resulting in a > blog post. > The basic gist of my thinking lately has been centered around public > libraries, and the fact that they're tax-funded community centers where > people gather to learn, work, go to events, and more. The overlaps with our > coworking spaces are obvious-- but what about their models? What might > coworking have to learn from how libraries came to be? > Much much more here: http://bit.ly/kZFJF > What thoughts have you had on coworking as a public service? > Hope you are all enjoying your Saturdays! > > Tony > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > New Work City - Coworking NYC style. > Phone: (888) 823-3494 > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://nwcny.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nwc > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
