This space in Canada http://socialinnovation.ca provides quite a bit of documentation here http://socialinnovation.ca/sssi - it's not strictly coworking but the case studies they provide cover a lot of the issues surrounding creating a shared space.
Best, Karl On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Mindaugas Grajauskas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- @karllong -- 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.
