Liz took Carsten and I to a sweet little local restaurant in Austin called Galaxy(thanks, Liz!) and they had the most spectacular values poster that you could look at while you waited to order your food. Here are the first lines of it:
If you opened your own restaurant wouldn't you... Open it in your hometown in your own neighborhood Serve breakfast til 4pm on weekends Always choose quality over price and on and on I propose a similar format for coworking If you created your ideal workplace/community wouldn't you... Open it in your favorite neighborhood Fill it with happy, bright, creative people Make it comfortable Encourage people to collaborate, socialize and be productive Be kind and helpful to one another Have fun Enjoy going there Manifest true balance in your life Thoughts? Angel On Mar 13, 2:06 pm, thilo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think the manifesto style, that gankplank is using, is a great why > to express our core values better. > > Let me try this with the current one... > > Openness over knowledge lead > Sustainability over profit > Community over agendas > Accessibility over exclusiveness > Collaboration over competition > > What do you think? > > As of defining co in coworking, we should give us some room here. > Although I understand the need to clarify things, I don't think it > will help our course if we try to box things in as I thing most of the > fascination for coworking is the fact that it has so many different > faces. So core values are great to give a direction and the rest > should be up to every space and coworker. Of course this is just my > opinion. > > It is great to meet many of you in Austin at the unconference and > around SXSW. > > If you want to get a intro into cobot or just to meet each other get > in touch with me via mail or twitter (@freaklikeme) I am at SXSW all > the time. > > Cheers > Thilo > > -- > coworking:http://co-up.de > coworking management:http://cobot.me > > On Mar 12, 5:57 pm, Tony Bacigalupo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > It would be cool if we had a roughly agreed-upon set of core values, but > > also had a vacant spot for additional value(s) that groups could > > self-identify with. > > > That way we could communicate the things we have in common but also > > distinguish what we focus on. > > > Thanks for writing this up Susan! > > > PS if you're at SXSW and we haven't caught up yet, hit me up! > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Susan Evans <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Thanks to everyone who came to the coworking values session at the > > > Coworking Unconference! I took some basic notes during the session and > > > promised to share them once I got back to my desk. Well, I'm back at my > > > desk > > > so here they are! > > > > The general purpose of the conversation was to see if there might be need > > > to adjust/edit/add/remove/clarify our current coworking core values. As > > > they > > > stand NOW, the values are: > > > > Openness > > > Sustainability > > > Community > > > Accessibility > > > Collaboration > > > > Here were some of the values/points brought up during the discussion: > > > > Lifestyle > > > Community > > > Respect > > > Trust > > > Kindness > > > Collaboration > > > Participation > > > People > > > Energy > > > Productivity > > > Synergy > > > People being people (being themselves) > > > Social > > > > The crew at Gangplank also had a great recommendation for us to take a > > > look > > > at their current manifesto and possibly work the coworking values in as a > > > "_____" above "_____" style. Check out their manifesto here: > > >http://gangplankhq.com/vision/manifesto/ > > > > Another question worth pondering that came up was: "What is the co in > > > Coworking?" > > > > I'll let the group take the conversation from here. Please discuss! > > > > Susan > > > > __ > > > Susan Evans > > >www.officenomad > > > __ > > > Office Nomads > > > <http://www.officenomads.com>officenomads.com > > > 206-484-5859 > > > > .com > > > > -- > > > 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.
