Hi Jewel, We are planning another conference call tomorrow, I will send out the details to the group later today. If you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions, you can always email me directly.
Kind regards Toby On 7/9/15, 10:23 AM, "Jewel Mlnarik" <[email protected]> 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 <http://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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