Smaller coalitions like the one you are talking about here are a much better alternative to an international affiliation. I say go forth and rock your idea and be open with your model so others can repeat it if it feels right to them. Putting something high up, at the coworking.com level, forces people to come to a consensus and is more fracturing then uniting.
Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:14 AM, t...@c4workspace <oneill.t...@gmail.com>wrote: > This is REALLY amazing. Congrats to Alex for putting it together and > thanks to everyone who contributed. > > It's been alluded to but I think we, as a community, are firmly on our > way to some sort of "organization." I've heard lots of resistance to > that idea including the hub-bub over the "Federated Coworking" session > proposed for SXSW. Thanks Rachel for checking into co-op > opportunities. I've been a president of an international association > (and ran it for about 18 months when our executive director bailed) > and it takes time and focus to do it right. Communications alone (move > to ZoHo) is a challenge in itself. And managing finances, especially > over international borders, is a special skill. There are some > enlightened folks in the association management space (Maddie Grant is > one) who might be open to guiding us. That's all to say that there is > a lot to consider. > > Now, from the mixing it up department, some of you may know that the > Texas spaces have gotten together to help throw a SXSW shindig. Well, > that whole discussion evolved into the formation of the Texas > Coworking Coalition. And last night Paul from Texas Coworking in > Austin (on Sixth Street no less) purchased CoworkingCoalition.com. We > have a sub domain of texas.coworkingcoalition.com set up and will have > a site up by SXSW. The thought behind the domain was to generalize it > so others could use it. That all came together in about 3 hours via > out Texas Coworking Coalition Google group. > > I'll chalk all this activity up to Karma or the gods and goddesses or > Fate or whatever but it seems this was all meant to be at this time. I > say let's roll with it and see where it goes. > > I'd like to suggest that those of us attending SXSW that we get > together on Saturday afternoon before the MeetUp for a little > CoworkCamp activity to discuss this and all other kinds of good ideas. > I'd suggest Texas Coworking as the location but I'll leave that to > them. > > For whatever reason, it's time. I'm so glad to be here right now! > > Todd O'Neill > Catalyst/Partner > C4 Workspace > San Antonio Texas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > 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 cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
