The Centre for Social Innovation is happy to contribute $500 to this
domain.... this is great!
On 15/02/10 1:09 PM, Matthew Wettergreen wrote:
This is an incredible thing that Alex did by contacting the community
members to make sure the domain stays community focused. Thanks Alex.
Caroline Collective and myself will contribute $500 for the domain.
Matthew Wettergreen
Caroline Collective
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Alex Hillman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
A few days ago, the group received an e-mail from Gerrit at The
Coworking Intitute, the owners of coworking.com
<http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://citizenspace.us/about/our-philosophy/>
and Station-C <http://station-c.com/en/community-manifesto> 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
<http://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
<http://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 <http://indyhall.org>
coworking in philadelphia
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