Sugar, if it lives it is going to be f*king awesome and the sound of our communal awesomeness will cause that big ol' bell you have over there in Philly to spontaneously ring. But first I have to get it through its infancy and I am still a complete tyro. I am still working too hard at the wrong things, I can feel it.
I was too stupid to believe you guys about the whole build the community first thing, I figured if I built it they would come. And they are but not all that fast. And I think every damn thing is possible but it really isn't in a space of 80 m2. However, because it is my house essentially I don't have the same cost pressures -- so I can take my time about it. And I have had a lot of helpful support recently from folks in town. So let's call it awesomeness in progress, with intermittent terror. :-) Jeannine On Feb 20, 8:53 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeannine, this sounds remarkable. I hope I get to visit you someday! > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jeannine <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have an advantage because my space is attached to my house -- it's > > the former stable of a 400 year old farm house like thingie. So I > > installed a door bell which rings in the space and in the house. So > > far if anybody needs anything when I am not there they mostly send me > > a tweet to be honest, it's faster than even ringing the bell. This is > > fair because I send up a tweet when baked goods are coming out of the > > oven :-) > > > Because of this setup, everbody knows this is a mom and pop shop, and > > pop only shows up when something IT related must occur. > > > At least two of my members have taken to the role of house mother like > > ducks to water and just take care of what needs taking care of without > > my asking them to. It seems to give them ownership, which is fine > > with me. > > > But for many reasons I am for having somebody identifiably in the role > > of space manager/concierge, even if you have to resort to having a > > member be "front" every day. In the right community you could have > > fun with this -- like I dunno, have a red shirt that the "front" > > person wears on his/her designated day. > > > Well, you don't actually have kill them before the end of the > > espisode. :-) > > > Or a cow bell. I dunno. In my community this would only go at > > carnaval, for these guys the house mother idea is the cinnamon in > > their apple pie. But I could see it work in a number of situations. > > > Jeannine > > On Feb 20, 3:47 pm, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We are going through the process of opening a space in Prescott > > > (Launch Pad Prescott athttp://launchpadprescott.wordpress.com/). We > > > are trying to decide if we need to hire someone to act as the Space > > > Manager/concierge and wanted input from other space owners on how they > > > have handled that. > > > Thanks > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
