[Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi http://ubnt.com/unifi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebasehttp://www.firebase.comdatabase and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
Hey Alex, They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you probably don't need much more. (I have no affiliation with them :) Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says up to 100 concurrent connections in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you have distributed across each one? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kyle.mclar...@gmail.com'); wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi http://ubnt.com/unifi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebasehttp://www.firebase.comdatabase and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com'); . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups Coworking group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/S7ZJ7Yf5WHA/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com'); . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
We ran a couple Ubiquity routers at The Coop. They were our saving grace after a bunch of trials with other hardware. We've got two AP's and we have no issues on average managing 200+ connections. Sam Desktime powers Coworking. http://desktimeapp.com On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alex, They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you probably don't need much more. (I have no affiliation with them :) Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says up to 100 concurrent connections in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you have distributed across each one? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebase database and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups Coworking group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/S7ZJ7Yf5WHA/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups Coworking group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/S7ZJ7Yf5WHA/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
Thanks Kyle! Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc. We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in production (including Meraki Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the price spectrum). Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance. So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data. You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Alex, They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you probably don't need much more. (I have no affiliation with them :) Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says up to 100 concurrent connections in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you have distributed across each one? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi http://ubnt.com/unifi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebasehttp://www.firebase.comdatabase and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups Coworking group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/S7ZJ7Yf5WHA/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to
Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets close to an Apple-like Just Works experience. We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs sharing the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such good value and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd be fine adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among other things regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere with each other. They even continued to work without complaint when the controller (an old Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days. Jon On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Kyle! Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc. We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in production (including Meraki Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the price spectrum). Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance. So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data. You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Alex, They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you probably don't need much more. (I have no affiliation with them :) Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says up to 100 concurrent connections in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you have distributed across each one? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi http://ubnt.com/unifi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebasehttp://www.firebase.comdatabase and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic
Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
Awesome feedback guys - thank you! -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Markwell jonathan.markw...@gmail.com wrote: I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets close to an Apple-like Just Works experience. We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs sharing the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such good value and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd be fine adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among other things regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere with each other. They even continued to work without complaint when the controller (an old Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days. Jon On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Kyle! Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc. We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in production (including Meraki Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the price spectrum). Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance. So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data. You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Alex, They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you probably don't need much more. (I have no affiliation with them :) Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says up to 100 concurrent connections in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you have distributed across each one? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi http://ubnt.com/unifi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebasehttp://www.firebase.comdatabase and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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
Re: [Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
This is great information! We are pushing our two Airport Extremes and are starting to look for a more enterprise solution. They have been great, but these days we are averaging 120 devices a day and if I don't reboot them once a week they stop accepting new connections about Wednesday or Thursday. I wonder if we could get away with only having two of these or if we should get more. Currently we have an Airport on each 5000sqft floor and have plenty of coverage. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Markwell jonathan.markw...@gmail.com wrote: I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets close to an Apple-like Just Works experience. We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs sharing the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such good value and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd be fine adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among other things regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere with each other. They even continued to work without complaint when the controller (an old Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days. Jon On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Kyle! Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc. We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in production (including Meraki Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the price spectrum). Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance. So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data. You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Alex, They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you probably don't need much more. (I have no affiliation with them :) Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says up to 100 concurrent connections in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you have distributed across each one? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren kyle.mclar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new coworking space (Engineroom). We have a Ubiquity UniFi http://ubnt.com/unifi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list is then published to a Firebasehttp://www.firebase.comdatabase and users can then view (in realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from Firebase. Kyle McLaren Founder @EngineroomHQ http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've
[Coworking] Re: Strategies for showing which members are on-site on a given day?
Wish I had a more technically helpful answer, but as a coworking member, the most impressive solution I've seen is at the Grind in NYC. Members there use a card to tap themselves in every day, and photo profiles of all checked-in members appear in a private online directory and elegantly on a large screen in the space. I asked whether they could tell me what they use, but no dice. I might have to challenge one of their people to an arm wrestle. Melissa (coworker at New Work City in NYC) On Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:36:15 PM UTC-5, Eli Malinsky wrote: Hey all Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to hear any creative ideas. We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to hear your experiences, see pics, etc. thanks! Eli Malinsky Centre for Social Innovation New York // Toronto -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[Coworking] Re: Cohousing and Coworking
Wendy, Before establishing our coworking space (Fuse) in Boulder I attempted something on a smaller scale at Wild Sage Cohousing. We had a big office in our common house that was essentially being used for storage and the finance team's needs. I repurposed it and got it set up with a few desks, etc, but found that no one took advantage of it except for me. This is by no means a valid test, but I do want to share that of 32 units, only two (including myself) are represented in a local coworking space. It's not that it can't work. I just don't think it's as much of a natural fit as it may at first seem. On Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:46:57 PM UTC-7, Wendy Willbanks Wiesner wrote: Hello--I interface with existing, expanding and forming cohousing communities all over the country, working to make them more affordable, accessible and attainable. I have come to believe that coworking and cohousing go together like almond butter and honey. What immediately comes to mind is that most cohousing communities have common houses where coworking would make a lot of sense. Has anyone else explored this intersection of community-oriented living and community-style working? -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[Coworking] Re: Cohousing and Coworking
Late addition to this thread but one of the interesting things about cohousing is that about 70% of cohousers are introverts - i.e. they feel energized doing things alone. Most of the folks I know in cohousing love being around other people but want to escape to their home. The equivalent coworking space would need to be structured with private offices facing into the workplace with a shared common area that allowed for interactions and occasional collaborations. Finally, getting coworkers into cohousing would seem a lot easier than getting coworkers into cohousing. On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 6:47:43 PM UTC-7, Melissa Mesku wrote: Wendy, I have lived in, and started, co-op housing communities, and I have to agree with Alex in that coworking and cohousing are largely unaware of each other. They're both based on similar principles (sharing resources, enabling collaboration, building community) but address pretty different lifestyle preferences, so I would anticipate that uniting the two would require effort and imagination. Coworking is on the rise but I don't know that cohousing is. When it comes to living arrangements, I think your average person is still resistant to the concept of sharing with non-family. That said, this may be changing, given the state of the economy plus the popularity of the sharing economy and the normalization of once-novel concepts like coworking. Best of luck! On Thursday, January 9, 2014 4:46:57 PM UTC-5, Wendy Willbanks Wiesner wrote: Hello--I interface with existing, expanding and forming cohousing communities all over the country, working to make them more affordable, accessible and attainable. I have come to believe that coworking and cohousing go together like almond butter and honey. What immediately comes to mind is that most cohousing communities have common houses where coworking would make a lot of sense. Has anyone else explored this intersection of community-oriented living and community-style working? -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[Coworking] Re: Private Office and Coworking Help Needed
All three of these responses have been a good approach. Anyone that is working there is a member. We have done what Rachel explained and set a limit for the private office at 4, generally. If they wish to have additional people attend their office then they have to buy an additional membership. We don't treat private offices as an entity but as individuals as well from a culturally perspective. Here is another suggestion: Talk to the team member individually and don't necessarily do it as a group. This seems like an issue that can be worked out between you two and then set a precedent moving forward. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[Coworking] Re: Detroit's First Coworking Week!
Hey Issac, Congrats from another Michigan native. I help organize Denver Coworking Week and we are having kick-off brainstorming meetings for our second annual one in May later this month. I would love to connect to learn more about what you guys are doing, what worked, etc. Craig -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[Coworking] Re: Consulting
Hey Em, There are several of us that have been coworking consultants for the last few years. Some of the most active ones that I'm aware of are Angel of Cohere, Alex of IndyHall, Tony from New Work City, Jacob of Office Nomads, and I do as well. Check out this group and our blogs for some great information. If you'd like to contact some of us directly please do so. We are all pretty darn friendly people. Craig -- 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/groups/opt_out.
