Hey guys, My name is Mindaugas, I’m from Lithuania (East Europe). Coworking principle is getting more and more popular in Lithuania and we’ve already have some coworking places in some cities.
I was trying to get to one in my own town, but the conditions weren’t good enough for me (basically the price). I started my own NGO and trying to work with the development of NGO’s (trainings, seminars, etc.). What is more, I’m focusing on helping young people to implement their ideas with my NGO’s help that they might need. So I started to think about establishing a coworking place for different people and NGO’s that need some place to work and some help. But the thing is that I don’t know where exactly to start. I was thinking to ask you – people which already are working with this – about the steps of establishing the coworking place. Is there anything like a manual of this? I mean I want to know the basic steps that have to be done for creating a coworking place. The questions I’m interested in are like: - Do I have to find the place first or do I have to get number of people / organizations that would stay in my coworking place? If I find people / organizations first, how can I offer them something when I don’t have a place yet? - What are the basics of coworking place? What are the necessary things that people should have? Internet, copy center, fax, what else? - What are the things needed for administration of coworking place? (is it necessary to have a administrator of the place for 24/7?, etc.) - What else could be offered for the people / organizations? Contacts data base and things like that? Law services? What else? (maybe you have some good experience of things like this?) I think it would be very helpful for everyone if we had some kind of manual about establishing and developing a coworking place. This manual could be supplemented time to time. Thanks for your help and advices, Sincerely, -- *Mindaugas Grajauskas* -- 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.
