Hello hello! It has been eight months since I gave an update on my humble Fayetteville Coworking group, and I wanted to share an exciting update: I'm helping a church open Fayetteville's first coworking space.
The one person I reliably jelly with is now my close friend, the associate pastor of a progressive Methodist-affiliated church that is located in the building of the coffee shop where we jelly. To make the story short, the church is opening a second campus on the other side of town, and the property, which they were given and now own outright (so no rent) has two buildings, one of which has a 1,300 sq ft space that was often rented out for meetings. Coworking will be a great way for them to build community, a la St. Lydia's in Brooklyn, and there is almost no risk for them since the overhead is low, they are a nonprofit, and they are a-ok with failure! I'm volunteering to help since I want to bring coworking to Fayetteville while I still live here. It's been great fun so far. We're hosting an organizational meeting next month (on April 13th) and are trying to get everyone interested to come. After that, we're thinking of launching a Kickstarter (a la New Work City back in the day) to expand our fundraising initiative nationally, and the church has done the math – they only need the equivalent of ten full-time members in order to open in August. Here's our website with all the details: fayettevillecoworking.com I'm looking forward to keeping everyone up to date, especially Alex, whose words and thoughts I've really been channeling throughout this process! On Friday, July 11, 2014 at 12:49:01 PM UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: > > Stoked to see you next month, too :) > > We'll try to meet there every week at the same time, and perhaps the >> regularity will encourage new people to drop in. > > > That's how Indy Hall, New Work City, and many others have gotten their > start. Without that regularity, it's hard to jump start ANYTHING new. Check > out this story here about how hard it was for us (with the help of some > very motivated members) to get our Night Owls program off the ground. > > > http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/10/the-importance-of-rhythm-rituals-for-coworking-communities/ > > > -Alex > > > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
