Awesome, Raines. Thanks for your support! I said this to Mike Schinkel, offline:
This isn't buying a membership to an association. This is contributing to a > specific cause, and being a sponsor. I think that we're on the path to form something more organic and accurately > representative of what this community needs instead of bucketing it into a > co-op or any other organization just because we know what that looks like. > I think we're getting more organized, and there's no doubt about that...and > I'm happy to lead the charge and have the community's support :) Hang tight, everybody. Talleying everything up now, in terms of pledges and actual payments. A few people have requested paypal invoices, they'll be coming shortly. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Raines Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in. *Coworking Coaches* is now a $1K sponsor (*does that put us over > the top? Don't stop the pledging*), and I'm looking forward to a > collaborative process of building a sustainable, resilient virtual home base > for the coworking movement. > > I consider my investment here a downpayment on building the community > infrastructure and helping coworking stand on its own two feet as a peer > with cohousing, worker/business cooperatives, incubators, and similar > ventures -- to be celebrated, understood, and appreciated for its uniqueness > but also for what it can share, in history, education, tools, and > philosophy. > > Perhaps we can structure what we do as we build collective capacity and set > up an organization so that after the domain is covered, others can step up > in other ways to match the initial effort, for the work that follows. > > Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach <http://www.CoworkingCoach.com/> > *Planning for Sustainable Communities* (Berkeley, CA) > Founding Member, Hub Bay Area <http://BayArea.the-hub.net/> coworking for > social entrepreneurs > <http://BayArea.the-hub.net/> > > -- > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- 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.
