haha.
100 people here at BLANKSPACES? np.
warm? It's L.A. not just warm, but not hot or cold. always 70.
People in SF could easily drive down or take a <$100 flight.
:-D
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On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:09 PM, t...@c4workspace wrote:
Uh, this sounds like a CoworkCamp is in the making.
I get that many folks attend SXSW but do all 200 catalysts or founders
attend? We need to be open to the idea that coworking is moving beyond
the IT, Web, Design community.
So we need a place for about 100 people in an affordable, cheap to fly
to, warmish weather location.
How about counter programming to SXSW and hold it in the early Fall?
With Texas' coworking space growth in the past year I nominate the
Republic as a suitable location. Dallas is easy to get to from
anywhere. San Antonio is pretty nice in October! :-) Austin is...
well, you know, wierd.
I had bounced this idea around to the Texan spaces late last summer
but got too busy to follow up.
I was even thinking of a mini-camp on Saturday afternoon at SXSW prior
to the Meetup. We could take the idea out for a test drive.
NOW I'm getting juiced up for SXSW! See many of you soon!
Todd O'Neill
Catalyst/Partner
C4 Workspace
San Antonio Texas
On Feb 4, 1:09 pm, CollegeMoneyMan <[email protected]> wrote:
I added something to a wiki agenda that would be helpful to those of
us considering formally starting a co-working environment; namely
marketing information understanding local demographics. My friends
and
I are eager to learn more about the marketing dimension of co-
working.
Regards
JR
On Feb 3, 9:30 pm, rachel young <[email protected]> wrote:
I think an annual coworking conference is a great idea, something
dedicated
to coworking, not tacked on to another event. Something where we
could focus
on coworking and community issues, meet each other, see one
another's cities
and spaces. I'm in!
There would have to be a lot of value to it in order to bring
these already
busy and stretched folks our of their spaces for a few days, though,
something that could leverage our buying power for, I dunno, office
furniture or health care benefits or travel discounts or something.
Something where we can not only have those providers/suppliers
sponsor the
event to offset costs, but to provide real value that would be worth
traveling for.
I've been involved in a few organisations that are spread across
multiple
timezones or parts of the world, and they have decided on location
in
similar fashions, which is basically that host cities post their
proposals
and the community votes on where it should be, perhaps one vote per
coworking facility. We can build in assurance that it won't always
be in the
same cities or parts of the country all the time so that people
in, say, the
west coast don't alwyas have to travel to the east coast. (ie,
establish
general zones and ensure the annual event rotates between zones)
Anyway, I think it is certainly worth exploring, and being an
event planner
I am all for it.
I put your suggested starting topics onto a wiki page (http://coworking.pbworks.com/Coworking-Conference
), which I think would be
better to collaborate from there. I do think that this would take
some time
to plan out properly (and give folks some time to save up some
money), so if
you were thinking of escaping the winter conditions in the next
few months,
then perhaps sxswi is your better option for this year.
r.
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Woodie Neiss <[email protected]> Jan 30 09:49AM -0500
Anyone want to get together for the first International Coworking
Community Annual Meeting in ummm let’s say a warm, sunny place
like Miami?
Sort of a one day event where we could discuss best practices,
set some
protocols for future coworking locations and formally organize
ourselves so
that we can leverage our combined power?
Suggested topics to discuss (feel free to edit/add to/delete/etc)
1) Keys to success
a. pricing
b. Serivices to offer
2) Managing the bottom line
a. Financing the start up
b. Negotiating lease agreements
c. Managing monthly expenses
3) Marketing & PR
a. Building awareness
b. How to generate more buzz
c. The power of meet-ups
d. Leveraging your chamber of commerce
4) Creative suggestions from some of our winning locations
5) How to formally organize ourselves into an International
organization
Perhaps we could all complete some surveys prior, and then
present the
results at the meeting as well?
Regards,
Woodie
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