Cool! I'll see what the wife says and get back to ya. But I'm thinking $500 Chad
On 2010-02-15, at 12:26 PM, Alex Hillman wrote: > A few days ago, the group received an e-mail from Gerrit at The Coworking > Intitute, the owners of coworking.com > > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/5e4e84c5ef869ae > > As he mentioned in the e-mail, he and his partner Bernie were recently > approached by a commercial entity with interest in buying coworking.com from > them. While the offer was "one they could not refuse", they agreed to turn to > our community first and give us a chance to counter-offer. > > I've been corresponding with Gerrit on the side and have had a very positive > dialogue. We've agreed to a counter offer (which they have accepted) of 5000 > Euros, or ~$6800 USD. > > I've never spent this kind of money on a domain before, so I've spoken with a > group of some of the longest-standing contributors to the coworking community > to see if I was off my rocker. We've agreed that this is a great opportunity > to put a stronger stake in the ground for the brand of coworking, the core > values that this list upholds, and a better technique of communicating with > people who are just finding our community. > > What do I think should be done with the domain? > > My plan is as follows: > > The wiki, blog, and google group will be aliased appropriately from > subdomains of the coworking.com domain. Coworking.com will contain a home > page explaining those properties and their contents, as well as some curated > press links that will be user submitted. Additional ideas are welcome, but > this is where I'd like to start! > > In the last 24 hours, I've kicked off a pledge of $500 from my own pocket > (IndyHall still has some debt to pay back from our move last spring and we > consider that priority), and have been followed by the following pledges: > > $500 - Alex Hillman/IndyHall > $500 - Tara Hunt/Citizen Space > $250 - Felicity Chapman/Cubes & Crayons > $250 - Steven Heath/AltSpace > $1000 - Susan Evans & Jacob Sayles/Office Nomads > $500 - Chris Messina > $500 - Patrick Tanguay/Station C > > That means we've been pledged $3500, just about halfway to the $7k mark we > need (including paypal fees and impending wire fees). That's enough for me to > transfer 50% of the asking price to the sellers to begin the transfer to us. > > Now...what are these contributors getting for their hard earned money? I've > come up with a very simple structure to encourage consistent contribution > amounts: > > • Any contributor of $250 or more will have lifetime (of the domain) access > to a subdomain of their choice (http://yourchoice.coworking.com), so long as > the content of the subdomain falls within the values of the Coworking > Community Manifesto: > > Community > Collaboration > Openness > Diversity > Sustainability > see Citizen Space and Station-C for citation of what those values mean > > • Any contributor of $500 or more will get a subdomain of their choice as > well, and additionally up to 5 email addresses hosted at a Google for your > Domain account set up for coworking.com > > • Any contributor of $1000 will get a subdomain, 5 e-mail addresses, and a > "sponsor" link in the footer of the coworking.com home page linking to the > coworking community/space website of their choice. > > No single contributor over $1000 will be accepted to give enough fair chances > to contributors across the community. > > There's no tricks, no scams, no funny business. > > Disclosure: I will be maintaining the domain name and its DNS records on > behalf of the community until, at some point in the future, there is an > entity that supports this community that can take over. I will also be > donating web hosting, again, until an entity that supports this community > takes over. > > How do you become a contributor? > > Go to this form: > > https://indyhall.wufoo.com/forms/help-buy-coworkingcom/ > > Everything I've outlined in this e-mail is there as well. > > I look forward to this rallying point for the group, and having a great > domain name to continue the growth of this community. > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > -- > 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. Chad Ballantyne Creative Director www.thecreativespace.ca 705.252.2423 ü Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- 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.
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