I've been dreamin' about this for a long time: https://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/04/creative-agency/ In a lot of ways, the Indy Hall community started with the fundamentals of this model before we had a space. I was building my ecosystem of people who I knew and trusted *before* I needed them, which let me sell work with a "voltron <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron>" like model.
It's true that there's a whole mess of technical logistical issues that can be be better solved easier today than 10 years ago...but the organizational/community fundamentals are still slippery. But to date, every version I've seen (including the ones that we've tried) have ultimately broken down in one way or another. In hindsight, I think the root problem that hasn't been addressed is the balance between independence, interdependence, and dependence. It's not an either/or...it's balancing them. The model you described creates a network that is highly dependent on a central "organization", not unlike like the talent agency I described in my post above. The tricky part there is that expectations start to shift away from people looking after each other (interdependence) and towards "who is taking acre of me?" (dependence). It's a bizarre thing to watch a healthy, thriving community be torn apart by introducing dependencies. I still think it's possible, but in my experience it's been a lot harder to build into something sustainable than people expect...myself included :) -Alex ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Better Coworkers: http://indyhall.org Weekly Coworking Tips: http://coworkingweekly.com My Audiobook: https://theindyhallway.com/ten On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Caner Onoglu <canerono...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like to think coworking as a company where members share their > expertise, resources with others on project basis. Wouldn't it be nice > coworking you attend not only free you from renting an office but also free > you from establishing a company and hiring people for specific roles? This > would cut fixed costs and create a dynamic environment with easy entry and > exit. > > Coworking I envision is a company/an organization where members are > potential partners on each others projects. Coworking organization shall > keep track of projects, maintains databases, manage information, allocate > tasks among willing members on projects and distribute profits according to > contributions done. > (as per smart contracts) > > I will be glad if you can recommend case studies, examples in this line of > thought. > > Thanks, > Caner > > -- > 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
