Re: [Coworking] Re: Community Acquisition of Coworking.com
Another community I belong to, Drupal, had a blank one-screen site for a long time at Drupal.com (they use drupal.org day-to-day) - now they have something much more useful. I think it makes a good example. (plus Tara's awesome screenshots) http://drupal.com/ What is Drupal? different things to different people Who is Drupal? a few non-verbal profiles of community members, personalities Where is Drupal? fun examples of drupal devotion and major events It's the story of Drupal, not some definition. Peace, Ryan Price rpr...@ryanpricemedia.com @liberatr 407-484-8528 FloridaCreatives.com Orlando Happy Hour: Mar 15th @ Crooked Bayou Next Likemind: Mar 19th @ UrbanThink! On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:14 PM, coworking wrote: Steven, I like you wonder why the urgency of the sell/buy on the website name and who the other almost purchaser was/is? I am thrilled to get caught up today on the collaboration taking place to solidify the collective group of coworkers. Our local coworking community is slowly growing and building awareness in the Chattanooga, TN business community. We're holding bi-weekly Jelly! Chattanooga events that are also growing in attendance. We are very interested in networking with more coworking communities and collaborating to promote coworking to the general working public. Alex, we appreciate your rally on this. Each coworking community is unique in its member demographics and ability to instantaneously raise funds. This line of thought brought up by Danielle Nicoli shines some interesting issues to consider as we push forward toward a more common ground for coworking communities. I think these issues should be brought up at SXSW. Forgive me, but is anyone going to stream online any of the coworking discussion. I would be v-e-r-y interested along with the other coworking communities to participate in the conversation. With all the geeks among us I would hope this would be possibledreaming of being there. At your service, Denise Reed www.theconciergelevel.com 600 Republic Centre 633 Chestnut Street Chattanooga, TN 37450 On Feb 15, 8:45 pm, Steven Heath she...@gmail.com wrote: Last point I have been pondering who is this group that wanted to come in and make this buy? Why did they want it and why now? What was the urgency? 'We' had 3 days to decide if we could make an offer and buy this name. Alex emailed about a dozen people which resulted in enough interest to 1, fund a good hunk of the price and 2, allow a public post to secure the rest of the monies. No one, and I mean no one, expected this money to be agreed and 70% collected in 36 hours! The initial off list discussions resulted in messages about 'legal entity' and 'value for money' and 'what the heck, better than some sleaze ball having it'. Once it was decided to go after this name we (really Alex) had little time to lose to get the pledges, put the offer in and then secure funds. I think the reason it worked is that we believe in the 'cause' and each could afford a share of the funds to secure the domain name. Alex had the idea, bunch of us agreed with him, agreed to support him in the approach and here we are! -- Steven Heath Director, Foxbane Consulting Founder, AltSpace Cell: +64 21 706-067www.foxbane.co.nz Level 22 Plimmer Towers 2 Gilmer Terrace Wellington AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Community Acquisition of Coworking.com
Alex, As the pint person here on this, and again I totally understand that you took a much needed lead and happy you stepped up to the plate on it but wondering who is now going to be a part of the 'entity' of the negotiation of the deal. And, how is it that people can reserve on the initial offer that you presented and or for the redistribution of funds? (per Jason's last comment/ request) Would there be a way to begin a list of those who pledged and or now want to contribute; those who didn't get have an opportunity to partake on this quick deal over a long holiday weekend? What is the time frame that you are looking at to officially close the deal and how can people be a part of the 'official' process of contributing/submitting ideas going forward? Will there be a committee formed and what will be the 'election process'? Danielle Nicoli Linked in @wheremmm WHERE: Meet, Mix, Mogul Coworking in Los Angeles googlevoice 202 596 5157 On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Jason, As I mention in the thread, we've over-raised at this point and aren't taking more contributions towards the domain purchase. We've had some suggestions about how to redistribute the funding and allow more people to benefit from the domain than the fast and the funded, but we won't need to address that until the domain is transferred and up, which is going to be a bit :) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:44 AM, jasontgoodr...@gmail.com jasontgoodr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in for $500. On Feb 15, 11:26 am, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: A few days ago, the group received an e-mail from Gerrit at The Coworking Intitute, the owners of coworking.com http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/5e4e84c. .. As he mentioned in the e-mail, he and his partner Bernie were recently approached by a commercial entity with interest in buying coworking.comfrom them. While the offer was one they could not refuse, they agreed to turn to our community first and give us a chance to counter-offer. I've been corresponding with Gerrit on the side and have had a very positive dialogue. We've agreed to a counter offer (which they have accepted) of 5000 Euros, or ~$6800 USD. I've never spent this kind of money on a domain before, so I've spoken with a group of some of the longest-standing contributors to the coworking community to see if I was off my rocker. We've agreed that this is a great opportunity to put a stronger stake in the ground for the brand of coworking, the core values that this list upholds, and a better technique of communicating with people who are just finding our community. What do I think should be done with the domain? *My plan is as follows:* The wiki, blog, and google group will be aliased appropriately from subdomains of the coworking.com domain. Coworking.com will contain a home page explaining those properties and their contents, as well as some curated press links that will be user submitted. Additional ideas are welcome, but this is where I'd like to start! In the last 24 hours, I've kicked off a pledge of $500 from my own pocket (IndyHall still has some debt to pay back from our move last spring and we consider that priority), and have been followed by the following pledges: $500 - Alex Hillman/IndyHall $500 - Tara Hunt/Citizen Space $250 - Felicity Chapman/Cubes Crayons $250 - Steven Heath/AltSpace $1000 - Susan Evans Jacob Sayles/Office Nomads $500 - Chris Messina $500 - Patrick Tanguay/Station C That means we've been pledged $3500, just about halfway to the $7k mark we need (including paypal fees and impending wire fees). That's enough for me to transfer 50% of the asking price to the sellers to begin the transfer to us. Now...what are these contributors getting for their hard earned money? I've come up with a very simple structure to encourage consistent contribution amounts: • *Any contributor of $250* or more will have lifetime (of the domain) access to a subdomain of their choice (http://yourchoice.coworking.com), so long as the content of the subdomain falls within the values of the Coworking Community Manifesto: Community Collaboration Openness Diversity Sustainability see Citizen Space http://citizenspace.us/about/our-philosophy/ and Station-C http://station-c.com/en/community-manifesto for citation of what those values mean • *Any contributor of $500* or more will get a subdomain of their choice as well, and additionally up to 5 email addresses hosted at a Google for your Domain account set up for coworking.com • *Any contributor of $1000* will get a subdomain, 5 e-mail addresses, and a sponsor link in the footer of the coworking.com home page linking to the coworking community/space website
Re: [Coworking] Re: Community Acquisition of Coworking.com
Chris, I love this idea on specific next steps that you have presented. I would be willing to move my pledge for the domain purchase to money to spend on a open site/ location at SXSW to host such a meeting. And, if there is anyone else who didn't get to be involved and would like to be please let me know. This momentum is exciting! Danielle @''WHERE: Meet, Mix, Mogul Worklounge and Community Hub Los Angeles, Ca On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Chris Messina chris.mess...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations, Alex. Great work! There's clearly a desire among the coworking community to put in a stake in the ground and create something that more collectively represents the maturity (or maturing?) of the community! I think this initiative worked because it was 1) focused 2) had a deadline 3) resulted in a tangible outcome. Given that there's probably still people who would like to chip in, I wonder if you can't quickly look into hiring a contractor or company to build out the coworking.com website? Perhaps put out a limited RFP to the coworking community and then have the various proposals presented at SXSW and then voted on to quickly move things forward with the opportunity to raise a second amount of money to cover the costs of such a site? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Re: Community Acquisition of Coworking.com
Maybe my dream of the ultimate coworking site can be achieved finally! Here it was: http://www.flickr.com/photos/missrogue/sets/72157600017335084/ And modeled off of Conferenceer (by Jacob Patton - no longer in existence). Simple, but functional. T On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 PM, WHERE MMM where...@gmail.com wrote: Chris, I love this idea on specific next steps that you have presented. I would be willing to move my pledge for the domain purchase to money to spend on a open site/ location at SXSW to host such a meeting. And, if there is anyone else who didn't get to be involved and would like to be please let me know. This momentum is exciting! Danielle @''WHERE: Meet, Mix, Mogul Worklounge and Community Hub Los Angeles, Ca On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Chris Messina chris.mess...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations, Alex. Great work! There's clearly a desire among the coworking community to put in a stake in the ground and create something that more collectively represents the maturity (or maturing?) of the community! I think this initiative worked because it was 1) focused 2) had a deadline 3) resulted in a tangible outcome. Given that there's probably still people who would like to chip in, I wonder if you can't quickly look into hiring a contractor or company to build out the coworking.com website? Perhaps put out a limited RFP to the coworking community and then have the various proposals presented at SXSW and then voted on to quickly move things forward with the opportunity to raise a second amount of money to cover the costs of such a site? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comcoworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Book: The Whuffie Factor (http://www.thewhuffiefactor.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 514-679-2951 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
