Well - If there is still a need for money as well - I am happy to put some cash in from my own personal pocket.
On Feb 17, 9:24 am, Jacob Sayles <jsay...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Isolationhttp://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.
