I'm inspired a bit by the Creative Commons license widget:
They give you a choice, to require those who re-use your work to:
Attribute you, the author; (A)
Keep commercial interest out of the picture; (NC)
Preserve the original piece - don't make derivatives; (ND)
Share-alike, thereby making the license viral. (SA)
There are checkboxes, allowing you to choose CC with a combination of
flavors. CC-A-NC-ND-SA 3.0 (the license also has versioning)
Maybe our widget would simply walk you through what it means to accept
each checkbox, and how others have created the environment that allows
these values to be enforced by the community. Almost like a public
service announcement: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" were the old principles
there.
Is it as simple as a page on your site (or in a printed brochure)?
"These are our values, and we've taken a few from the global Coworking
movement". (no hyphens, please)
If every space could be transparent about how they were putting these
into practice, and it were as easy to adopt as the Creative Commons
experience, then we may even see an easy way to build a directory of
spaces, because of everyone who fills in the widget, and let the
people in each city choose for themselves...?
If your personal values are in line with Coworking, lobby your space's
stakeholders to adopt at least a few principles and be public about
it. Obviously, they have to follow-through. It is an advantage to call
attention to these differences as a reason to choose your space and
become involved.
Maybe we can even come up with some graphics / branding / micro-site
for this? (a possible use for some community funds) Now, one of the
efforts of Coworking.com becomes trying to enable, showcase and
support people who choose to get involved with a global, distributed
movement. However, you need not participate in this campaign
explicitly order to be recognized.
Peace,
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On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Tony Bacigalupo wrote:
Re: Jacob:
I would posit that, on the most basic level, we can and should be
able to have something universal to represent the core values of
coworking without getting stuck in the specifics of implementation.
We could get back into a debate over what those exact core values
are (please lordy no), but roughly speaking, if a given thing is all
about community, openness, collaboration, accessibility and
sustainability, then it tastes like coworking pizza to me.
I like the idea of requiring some sort of a CS/Station C-style
manifesto, but that would mean we'd need...
(Re: Alex:)
...A decisionmaking body. What I'm suggesting is that we offer
something that requires no decisionmaking whatsoever. People take it
and subscribe to it, or they don't. You wouldn't put a Vote Obama
bumper sticker on your car if you didn't support Obama, and you
don't put a Coworking Core Values badge on your site if you don't
support the core values.
Self-enforcing, sticks to the core, strengthens the core, and
scalable. If someone wants to open a co-baking space or a co-
laundromat, or whatever, and they want to publicly subscribe to our
core values, then awesome. If somebody wants to pretend to be
coworking when they're not, they're going to run into problems down
the line and either adapt or drop it.
So far so good.
T
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]
> wrote:
To be clear, the badging idea isn't quite what I had in mind, but it
does raise some interesting thoughts. The main problem is that there
becomes an "issuing" body, which we're trying to avoid. That's the
same problem as a license; it comes from an issuing body.
I'd like to see more people seeing, and embracing the values though.
And if you go back to my original post, it's more about encouraging
people to give back and participate, not just slap the word
coworking on it and get some press. Not enforcing, but encouraging.
Again, I don't know what that looks like just yet, but I'm all for
keeping it far more lightweight than not.
I'd also like to decouple the money raising conversation from this
badge/license conversation as while I'm OK with the idea of a way to
declare our shared values, I don't want coworking.com to be a money
making or money collecting entity.
Completely agreed. I didn't mean to bring them up in the same breath
and confuse the issue, but I totally agree that coworking.com is a
declaration, not a venture.
-Alex
/ah
indyhall.org
coworking in philadelphia
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jacob Sayles <[email protected]>
wrote:
The biggest take away I've gathered from this discussion is that I'm
opposed to any kind of limiting or confining definition at a global
level. I've encountered spaces that claim to be coworking that I
don't share their values, and I've seen spaces that embody
everything I believe in, but either don't consider themselves
coworking, or in the case of Think Space in Redmond, they use the
term Executive Suite to blend in better with the east side
mentality. Rather then focus on false positives and false
negatives, I instead choose to relax my need to have a "unifying"
definition. This is reenforced by looking at everything that has
happened and how we've been able to attract like minded people into
our space simply by living our values every day. I don't need words
to tell me what that "magic" is and I'd prefer to not muddy the
definition by throwing words at it.
So this badge/license idea... Part of me doesn't like it. That's
the part that wrote the above paragraph. But then I ask if there is
a way to structure something on a global level that doesn't impose a
definition on those opting in and doesn't exclude people who want to
participate. It's a slippery slope and one I'm reluctant to head
down, especially with the recent exchanges that have slashed my
confidence that a global consensus can be reached. But I'll
entertain the idea further...
Perhaps it could be as simple as if you make a public statement like
Citizen Space and Station C have made, you get a badge or something.
- http://citizenspace.us/about/our-philosophy/
- http://station-c.com/en/community-manifesto
I'd also like to decouple the money raising conversation from this
badge/license conversation as while I'm OK with the idea of a way to
declare our shared values, I don't want coworking.com to be a money
making or money collecting entity.
Jacob
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Tara Hunt <[email protected]>
wrote:
Badges! We don't need no stinking...
Actually I love this idea!
typed choppily on my Nexus One....
On Mar 1, 2010 8:19 AM, "Tony Bacigalupo" <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm intrigued by the idea that someone can opt-in to the core values
of coworking, in a way that if they didn't embody those core values
it wouldn't make sense for them to use the license.
So, for instance, say we had a Coworking Badge that anyone could
download and use, and right on that image it says something like "We
subscribe to the core values of Community, Openness, Collaboration,
Accessibility, Sustainability," and it links back to coworking.com.
That way, it would be difficult for someone to co-opt the term
without misrepresenting themselves. If an exec suite wants to do
coworking and would like to offer something that legitimately
embodies those above values, then wonderful.
Self-enforcement.
>
> On Mar 1, 2010 2:46 AM, "Mike Schinkel" <[email protected]
> wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
>> I like essence of the idea, but I can't see directly how to
apply it.
>>
>> When I l...
-Mike
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>
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Alex Hillman wrote:
>
>> As you are envisioning it, what exactly would...
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