Hi Jay, Sounds like an awesome vacation / coworking tour!
Where in California will you be over the next week? I am know quite a few of the spaces and would be glad to direct you to some nice ones. And when you make it up to San Francisco let's grab a beer! Cheers, Eric ([email protected]) On Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:51:08 AM UTC-7, Pantha Jay - new Melbourne cowork space wrote: > > (Hablo espanol - si hay alguien quien quiere leer ese mensaje pero no lee > ingles, solo tirame un correo y les voy a comunicar directo) > > *Hi all!* > > My name's Jay, I'm* starting up a coworking space* in the seethingly > creative, entrepeneurial, interdisciplinary hotbed of *Melbourne, > Australia.* > > First up - a HUGE thanks for the resources posted by many of you in this > and other contexts, it's mighty enabling! > > I'd love to come and *visit some existing coworking spaces*, and perhaps > talk with founders/facilitators/leaders as well as members. > > I'll be in *California between 15th and 20th* of June (yes, next week!). > > Then in *Europe around the 27th June to the 3rd July* (with Germany as > the epicentre - but have questions, will travel!). > > Then *Hong Kong/China 4th July to round 11th* (mostly Shenzhen but maybe > up to Beijing as well). > > If anybody would be available that would be great - and if any of you can > suggest a kind of bucket list of cowork spaces in the region - like any > that are so good they shouldn't be missed! - that'd be appreciated too. > > A bit about myself - I'm an ex NGO manager with heavy chops in volunteer > management, informal learning, community development, systemic advocacy, > and change, with recent years dedicated to entrepeneurial endeavours in > everything from phones to jewelry, IT startups to underground music events. > In between I've been a chef, DJ, scuba diver, writer, and astrologer. I > probably shouldn't have left that one til last! Anyway I'm a > multidisciplinary thinker and I can promise some good listening skills - > maybe even some helpful insight from an outsiders POV - I've done lots of > organisational consulting on change dynamics and similar processes. > > For the cowork space we're developing in Melbourne's north (Thornbury), > I'll be taking my cue from what many of you people have articulated about > the importance of developing some kind of core community first. So we're > renovating a building now but in the next days watch for an invitation to > get involved and shape everything from the name to the membership > structure. I'm open to any and all advice and will be posting questions > here to you good people just as soon as I've read through the treasure > trove that is the back catalogue of posts in this forum! > > Thanks! Jay > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/fjk_5vZETeYJ. 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.
