Hi, Jewel! Citizen Space has taken the lead on organizing Cworking Week again this year, they do a great job too!
To connect as a sponsor you send an email to [email protected]. Events and celebrations at coworking spaces are registered with the website by contacting [email protected] . Cheers, Jeannine On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 7:23:14 PM UTC+2, Jewel Mlnarik wrote: > > > Thanks Jeannine, Toby and Ramon for the great lead and round up of > information to help us engage with Coworking Week 2015. > > We'd recently begun chatting at Workfrom.co about how we can best > participate and would love any feedback here. As a website and community > for remote workers, we commonly facilitate coworking, whether that's at a > dedicated coworking space or out "in the wild" at a cafe, park or > elsewhere. We also showcase the places people cowork and the people who > work in those spaces. We'd love to help promote the week, events, people > and in that sense be a media sponsor. In looking at the sponsors page, I > couldn't find information on who to contact and thought that someone here > would know? > > Cheers, > > Jewel Mlnarik > Founder, Workfrom.co > Workfrom Anywhere. Explore Everywhere. > @workfromco <http://twitter.com/workfromco> | @juellez > <http://twitter.com/juellez> > > > On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 4:59:17 AM UTC-7, Ramon Suarez wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot Jeannine for such a thorough and we'll crafted email and for >> once again taking the lead . Thanks also to all the rest for your >> thoughtful contributions. >> >> For the discussion about the coworking week I would like to suggest a new >> and separate discussion, so that things don't get mixed up. >> >> You can count on me to work and on the support of Betacowork and the >> European Coworking Assembly. >> >> I would suggest a task for the first year that we can discuss in the >> coming coworking conferences too: write our definition of coworking and use >> it in Wikipedia articles and everywhere. We already had a few discussion >> about this in the Google Group and it lead to the one we are using for the >> Coworking Week Belgium and the European Coworking Assembly: >> http://coworkingbelgium.be/2014/05/22/belgium-coworking-spaces-map/ >> (link to original group discussion in text). Not all Collaborative and >> shared working spaces are coworking spaces. If we dilute the core and the >> target too much we will be irrelevant, and we want to have impact. >> >> Regarding the target, I think that for most of the properties we are >> talking about space operators. Coworkers can benefit of the wiki and >> spalecially the visa, but mixing everybody in the Google group only ads >> noise, making it harder to contribute, help and have meaningful >> conversations. If people absolutely want to have coworkers discussing, it >> should be in a different group that could be also created and managed by >> Open Coworking, but I think this is too much work for little value. I think >> that for them it is much more interesting finding out about the coworking >> visa: creating personal links around the world will do much more than any >> online experience (as we all have experienced in the conferences, and as a >> former AFS participant I reckon). >> >> An idea for the visa would be to add a voluntary longer exchange, that >> could be as easy to signal as adding an asterisk by the name). I was >> thinking about one week. >> >> When it comes to mentoring we do a lot in the conferences and through the >> connections we make there. On top of it there's Andy's seminars and >> podcast, the Coworking Handbook, many people doing consulting, and other >> ressources. I don't think personalized free tutoring is needed, but I >> would love to participate in some scheduled open hangouts. >> >> It is important to have a legal structure with motivated and hard >> working people in the board to move forward and to manage some visit >> financial operations, such as renewing the domain name registration and >> taking he members fees. >> >> Those that want to be part of the organization should pay an annual fee. >> Ressources can still be open, but the more committed and those that walk >> the walk should decide. >> >> The cooperative idea sounds good specially if it is a non profit. You >> are the lawyer, I trust you know well this :) What is important to me is >> that the people taking the lead are not personnally liable, as it would be >> the case without any kind of organization. Limited liability please :) If a >> new entity is created, the old one should transfer assets to the new one. >> >> It is important that he ownership of he domains, group, and the wiki is >> transfered to whatever legal entity we use. I've seen too many cases where >> not knowing who had to renew the domains and inaction have ended up in >> losing them. They are too valuable to loose them. >> >> To participate you don't need membership, but some things have to be >> limited to the members, who have a higher engagement and commitment. And >> basic commitment equals annual fee :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ramon Suarez >> Founder Betacowork.com >> Author CoworkingHandbook.com >> President CoworkingAssembly.eu >> Founder CoworkingBelgium.be >> And coworking apasionado :) >> > -- 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. 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