[Coworking] Vision For A Sustainable Future

2013-08-09 Thread Jacob Sayles
Wow! It's only noon here in Seattle but today is already pretty amazing. If you hadn't guessed by the fact that I'm wearing a tuxedo todayhttp://t.co/7OfaWjmTw7, I'm excited for Coworking Day. I'm excited because this is an amazing community and I'm proud to be a part of it. I love seeing the

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Trend vs Weather Trend

2013-07-25 Thread Jacob Sayles
We have data in Nadine going back to 2008 and have seen that people stay home when the sun comes out. One year we had a very wet summer and the sun didn't come out until around September and you can see the corresponding dip in membership. It's hard to say how that trend is going this summer

Re: [Coworking] Space Operators, Managers, Co-Founders, etc: What the hell should we call ourselves?

2013-07-24 Thread Jacob Sayles
My first card said Co-founder Janitor. I've since dropped the janitor part because we hired that out. :) I ask our Community Cultivators not to introduce me as an owner, or the boss, or anything like that. Co-founder works just fine. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation

Re: [Coworking] Do coworking spaces work in the suburbs?

2013-07-16 Thread Jacob Sayles
and event space rental. Susan- feel free to email or call me to talk details and strategy for the suburban model! Jenifer Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com wrote: That's not true at all. We have some great spaces outside of the greater

Re: [Coworking] Do coworking spaces work in the suburbs?

2013-07-15 Thread Jacob Sayles
That's not true at all. We have some great spaces outside of the greater Seattle area. The White Board is all the way out in Issaquah and Suite 133 down in Tacoma has been around for as long as Office Nomads has been. We grew up together! http://thewhiteboard.biz http://www.suite133.com Jacob

Re: [Coworking] Do coworking spaces work in the suburbs?

2013-07-15 Thread Jacob Sayles
://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.comwrote: That's not true at all. We have some great spaces outside of the greater Seattle area. The White Board is all the way out in Issaquah and Suite 133 down in Tacoma has been

Re: [Coworking] Just wanted to say- Coworking Bath The Guild is finally open!

2013-07-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
Congratulations! On Saturday, July 13, 2013, Tom Lewis wrote: After a total of 3 years negotiation, funding applications, and then a lot of work converting a very old, very central building here in the beautiful historic city of Bath (including firing not one but two interior designers as

Re: [Coworking] History of Coworking

2013-07-07 Thread Jacob Sayles
That would be a great addition. I can help get it on there too. It's doable I believe it just might not be intuitive how we go about it. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Minna Van |

Re: [Coworking] Re: Gelatine - a user checkin-system to improve networking in coworking spaces

2013-07-07 Thread Jacob Sayles
The Nadine version of this broke when I recently upgraded to Django 1.5. I'm sure it's an easy fix but I've been too busy to dig into why the API stopped working. I'm going to start playing with it all again soon now that I'm upgrading our Twitter Alert light to include a screen. So many

Re: [Coworking] Open Coworking Help

2013-07-07 Thread Jacob Sayles
PM, Jacob Sayles wrote: Hello World! Things continue to move forward here in the land of Open Coworking and I figured it's time to send an update out. I know it can be difficult to see what's going on because I haven't been great about keeping everyone informed. That's one area that is clear

[Coworking] Open Coworking Help

2013-07-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello World! Things continue to move forward here in the land of Open Coworking and I figured it's time to send an update out. I know it can be difficult to see what's going on because I haven't been great about keeping everyone informed. That's one area that is clear to see we need some help

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Visa Program Rules and Regulations

2013-06-24 Thread Jacob Sayles
The first paragraph at the top of the main visa page you linked to explains how it works. That's it! It's specifically kept simple since this is such a wide spread community. Let our members into your space and we'll let your members into our space. Most people limit it to 3 days max but we've

Re: [Coworking] Cart before horse

2013-05-29 Thread Jacob Sayles
I certainly pitch the community first angle quite often and always lead with it. It has enormous advantages because many of the difficult and elusive elements work themselves out through the process of gathering people. But it's not the only way and it's important to keep that in mind. We tried

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Management Software...Help!

2013-05-28 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hey Petr! I'm the guy behind Nadine so I can answer any questions you have about that. I'd suggest joining the list we have if you are interested in running it. As for other options, the other ones I know about are all hosted products. Are you specifically interested in running something on

Re: [Coworking] Membership Software

2013-05-16 Thread Jacob Sayles
Oh I guess no coworking software conversation would be complete without me chiming in about Nadine. It's more then just having an open source option. We also need a software sugar daddy that will manage the project, coordinate the contributions, and offer support. Nadine has been around for years

Re: [Coworking] Re: Average Occupancy

2013-05-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
Such a simple question that is so complicated to answer. We only know our limits because we hit them. Last May we were full with 110 members in 5000 sqft and 60 desks. But that doesn't really answer your question because those numbers are specific to our space, our members, and our membership

Re: [Coworking] help us understand coworking as the future of the workplace!

2013-05-08 Thread Jacob Sayles
This sounds like a great study and I'm excited to see where it goes. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing. It gives me an opportunity to show to our members that we are part of something bigger and invite them to participate. We're in! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without

Re: [Coworking] Case Studies of U.S. Communities Creating Greater Civic Participation from the Bottom Up

2013-05-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
Nicely done Alex. Thank you for sharing. I will be interested to see where this goes from here. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: The

Re: [Coworking] Affiliate program

2013-04-29 Thread Jacob Sayles
It sounds like the Coworking Visa program might be what you are looking for. It's not a formal reciprocal use program as no funds exchange hands but it's a nice way to show solidarity with coworking spaces around the world and let your members know they are connected to something much bigger then

[Coworking] Re: Office Nomads Time Lapse!

2013-04-26 Thread Jacob Sayles
-Christina Rus mariarouma...@gmail.com wrote: I feel like talking today :) That's really cool! But how is the coworking space planned? Is this the main meeting room? Cheers! El miércoles, 10 de abril de 2013 19:08:29 UTC+2, Jacob Sayles escribió: Hello World, As part of our interview

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Visa Map

2013-04-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
:31 UTC-7, Jacob Sayles wrote: Using the wiki as the primary data source is a great idea. I'm curious to know how you're converting the data. Oren Salomon and I have been talking quite a bit about the Open Coworking Map idea I was pushing a year ago as part of the Coworking Wiki Project. We

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking Visa Map

2013-04-17 Thread Jacob Sayles
Using the wiki as the primary data source is a great idea. I'm curious to know how you're converting the data. Oren Salomon and I have been talking quite a bit about the Open Coworking Map idea I was pushing a year ago as part of the Coworking Wiki Project. We didn't' raise enough money to do

Re: [Coworking] Happy to share our first video...after being open almost two years!

2013-04-11 Thread Jacob Sayles
Nicely done! There are so many spaces I want to visit. Mm kale juice Jacob On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jenifer Ross westchesterwatercoo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for taking a look, and sending any feedback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=KRyxLzbkovg

[Coworking] Office Nomads Time Lapse!

2013-04-10 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello World, As part of our interview with A Different Officehttp://www.differentoffice.com/the-people-are-the-space/, Lori and Daniel created a time lapse video of a day in the life here at Office Nomads. It's really well done and it nicely captures the front room of the space where people come

Re: [Coworking] Re: Ideas for Member Section of Space Website

2013-04-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
this work. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Harold Maduro morin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jacob! The PSD file? H On Monday, April 1, 2013 3:10:22 PM UTC-5, Jacob Sayles wrote: Harold

Re: [Coworking] Re: Ideas for Member Section of Space Website

2013-04-01 Thread Jacob Sayles
Harold that looks wonderful! We talked about doing something like this with our Nadine data. I've never used jquery lightbox. Is it pretty straight forward? Can you share your design files? Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206)

Re: [Coworking] Gelatine - a user checkin-system to improve networking in coworking spaces

2013-03-28 Thread Jacob Sayles
Mark, Happy to hear your plan is to open source the code. I'm excited to take a look when you get it out there. It looks like there is a lot of overlap with where Nadine is at. We could possibly collaborate or just share ideas. You can find out more about Nadine on the little splash page I

Re: [Coworking] Re: Business Plan for a coworking space

2013-03-20 Thread Jacob Sayles
If people would like to submit their plans we can create a library of them on the wiki. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Jasmine Powers womanfrommycoun...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that

[Coworking] Different Office: The People Are the Space

2013-02-20 Thread Jacob Sayles
Our friend across town, Lori Kane from Collective Self, just published an interview with Susan and myself about how we got started at Office Nomads and the process of creating a soul satisfying career. It's informal and rather long and was incredibly fun to do. They are going to be back tomorrow

Re: [Coworking] 2nd coworking location and new (non-final) video: I'd love feedback!

2013-02-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
Nicely done Will! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace wmben...@locusworkspace.com wrote: Hi All, *First, *I'm extremely excited to announce the opening of our

[Coworking] Re: Coworking Wiki: Status Update

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Sayles
on the buzz we will have when we are all together in one room may help to surface the project manager needed for the next year as well as the individual team members needed. Just a thought :) Iris On Thursday, February 7, 2013 1:28:34 PM UTC-8, Jacob Sayles wrote: Hello, This time last year

[Coworking] Coworking Wiki: Status Update

2013-02-07 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello, This time last year Chelsea, Jessie, and I were putting together the plan for the Coworking Wiki Project in preparation for our launch at GCUC. There have been a few twists and turns along the way, but a year later we have an amazing team in place and I wanted to give everyone a status

Re: [Coworking] showers

2013-02-05 Thread Jacob Sayles
We don't provide anything with our shower and assume members bring everything they need. We keep it clean and occasionally need to do a towel purge, but other then that it's very low maintenance. Once we had a member put his towel in the laundry bin we use for hand towels and we politely

Re: [Coworking] Sharing print material

2013-02-04 Thread Jacob Sayles
This is a great idea. We could easily keep a page on the wiki that contains design files ready to print. Keep in mind that we are more librarians then designers. We can help with the organization and stewarding. Jacob On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Randall G. Arnold

Re: [Coworking] Re: Membership Software

2013-02-01 Thread Jacob Sayles
There is also Nadine which is open source and used here at Office Nomads. It doesn't do door locks though but Alex Lang from Cobot and I have gone back and forth discussing how to integrate door locks into our systems. We mostly discussed integrating with ISONAS controllers since that is what we

Re: [Coworking] New coworking space coming to Seattle in 2013!

2013-01-29 Thread Jacob Sayles
Welcome Rob! I'm excited to welcome you to the Seattle coworking community and the global community we have here on this list. The next Seattle Collaborative Space Alliance meeting is on February 19th and many folks on this list will be going to GCUC in Austin March 5th and 6th. There are many

Re: [Coworking] Re: Co-Working Directory

2013-01-24 Thread Jacob Sayles
Oren, We would love your help on the wiki project. We also designed an open coworking directory to take over the directory function of the existing wiki but we didn't secure enough funds to take it on. There are lots of directories out there though and each one has it's own secret sauce. I

Re: [Coworking] How do you handle wireless network passwords?

2013-01-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
We change up our wireless passwords every year or so and write it on every whiteboard around the space. We also like to make it funny and our current password is totallysilly. Previously it was whatpassword and itscomplicated. Oh the fun we have. We also have ethernet at almost every desk so

[Coworking] Needed: Coworking Wiki Project Director

2013-01-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello, Last year at this time Chelsea, Jessie and I were preparing to kick off the Coworking Wiki project that we launched at GCUC. We've been working hard all yearhttp://www.opencoworking.org/coworkingwiki/2013/01/07/end-of-the-year-update/and there is still a lot of work to be done. This

Re: [Coworking] How to build a community when the boss doesn't want it

2013-01-03 Thread Jacob Sayles
We recently added 5 Community Cultivators to the team here at Office Nomads and I think sometimes they might think I'm against structured events based on the feedback I give them. I'm often reminding everyone that everything needs to be optional because everyone is in a different space at any

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking in small towns vs. cities

2012-12-31 Thread Jacob Sayles
Frank this is wonderful! I'm very excited for you guys and love to see you are making valuable contributions to the Port Townsend community and the coworking community here. Happy New Year! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500

Re: [Coworking] Getting People Familiar With CoWorking

2012-12-05 Thread Jacob Sayles
Ryan, This is the same story everywhere. Even here in Seattle, after having shouted on rooftops for the past five years we still face this challenge. There are a number of things I do to increase coworking awareness and it starts by being active in the communities around me and talking up

Re: [Coworking] Re: Member termination notice

2012-11-29 Thread Jacob Sayles
We only take a deposit and ask for 30 days notice from our Resident members. Even then, we are generally pretty flexible with the deposit. We've kept the deposit in cases where we only had a few days notice, or once when someone cleared out at 7AM on the day their billing went through. We tell

Re: [Coworking] CRM recommendation for 4 coworkers?

2012-11-26 Thread Jacob Sayles
Ding ding ding! This is a very important point Tom! Thank you for injecting it into the conversation. Often there is an over idealistic view of what efficiency brings which is funny because humans aren't very efficient as a species to begin with. But that's a whole conversation in and of

Re: [Coworking] Re: Business Model Study Group

2012-11-15 Thread Jacob Sayles
This fits with ideas I've had regarding the future of Open Coworking, the non-profit we started this year to handle the financial end of the Coworking Wiki Project we've been working on. The benefit I see is that an organization like this can not only have a large scale, scope, and reach, but

Re: [Coworking] Re: Business Model Study Group

2012-11-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
I love geeking out about this stuff and noodling on business plans. Count me in. We tend to lean on the simple side of things and only have one revenue stream: memberships. I think there are a lot of projects that fit the three points you bring up Craig that, if done right, bring in more

Re: [Coworking] Re: Business Model Study Group

2012-11-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
Keeping expectations in check is key! It's hard to know how many spaces that have closed are because they expected huge returns or blew their budget building infrastructure that didn't pan out. These are not examples of how coworking isn't profitable but it's hard to sort that kind of thing out

Re: [Coworking] Membership Dues Payment Methods

2012-11-12 Thread Jacob Sayles
Good timing as we are in the middle of changing things up here at Office Nomads. We have our own merchant services account and on top of that we use Authorize.net for reoccurring billing. We are currently looking into switching to USA ePay because it's cheaper and because it has better online

Re: [Coworking] Re: Coworking ID cards?

2012-10-30 Thread Jacob Sayles
the Coworking Toronto Passport Programhttp://bit.ly/CTOPassport2012 * *for a day pass to seven spaces for one price.* * * On 30 October 2012 11:53, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.com wrote: Gangplank has name cards you pick up when you come in every morning and put them on your desk so

Re: [Coworking] Let's fix the stupid job crisis ourselves

2012-10-29 Thread Jacob Sayles
We threw this out to our members and we are going to get together on Thursday (our 5th birthday!) to discuss the topic. I'd love to hear about how other spaces are getting involved. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Mon,

Re: [Coworking] Launching our NYC website!

2012-10-23 Thread Jacob Sayles
Eli this is beautiful! You do a wonderful job of expressing your values and how they shine through the community you have brought together. I'm excited to continue to watch the CSI story grow. Congratulations! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation

Re: [Coworking] Re: Starting a space - how to locate property mentors

2012-10-22 Thread Jacob Sayles
And you can't open a space in single family zoning. We looked at a cool church a long time ago but turns out churches are single family too. How you get anything other then a church to fit into such a large space with that kind of zoning limits is beyond me. Jacob --- Office Nomads -

Re: [Coworking] What is coworking? Promo video

2012-10-22 Thread Jacob Sayles
I love it so much I want to copy it. I'm going to throw this out to our team and see what we can come up with. It would be great to get a collection of these videos from a variety of spaces. This is a much better way of showing what a space is all about then some canned marketing text on a

Re: [Coworking] Re: is coworking childcare a viable business model?

2012-10-08 Thread Jacob Sayles
Yes, as with everything, our personal passions can transform a tricky business model into something that looks easy. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Peta Ellis p...@rivercitylabs.net wrote:

Re: [Coworking] Re: Global Workspace Association

2012-10-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
Yes we do have a global organization and a very effective association. We all associate with the word coworking. For such a vastly diverse group of people this is more then enough. This is beautiful. Our success in Seattle is amplified because of our association with all of you. We express

Re: [Coworking] In front of a room of corporate leaders...

2012-09-28 Thread Jacob Sayles
Great work guys! And the coworking cruise ship is an amazing idea. Is Dario on this list? Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.comwrote: Yesterday

Re: [Coworking] Re: Making the Google Group Even Better

2012-09-27 Thread Jacob Sayles
Nicely done! I love that it builds on what we have, what works and makes it easier to use. I'm happy to help in whatever way I can. I would love to have a hackathon weekend where we can dig into the core tools we use. With a structure for building accountable teams of volunteers in place we

Re: [Coworking] Coworking on CNN

2012-09-24 Thread Jacob Sayles
This was posted to the coworking and childcarehttps://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/coworking-and-childcaregroup but I didn't realize it hadn't been posted to this group yet. Congrats Plug Play and LINK! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation

Re: [Coworking] A coworking forum @Grind (NYC) Oct 6

2012-09-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
I am looking into making this happen and I would love to talk about the progress we've made on the wiki. Jacob On Monday, September 17, 2012, Jerome Chang wrote: *For those of you who might be in the NY area during Columbus Day weekend, please join some of us LExC folks Saturday afternoon,

Re: [Coworking] Best practices for integrating daily guests

2012-09-17 Thread Jacob Sayles
Jamie, It can be as easy as walking around yourself and mingling a little bit. We also have this built into the design of our space and is why we don't have different desks for full-time and part-time members, or keep our full-time members in a separate area. But of course it has to be said

Re: [Coworking] Re: Exchanges

2012-09-06 Thread Jacob Sayles
I love the idea! Christoph from Betahause and I talked about doing this before but never worked out the details. I think it could be as easy as using the coworking wiki rather then building a new platform. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com -

Re: [Coworking] Re: Talking all day in a coworking space without bothering people

2012-08-20 Thread Jacob Sayles
Peter, It's not really black and white when it comes to talking on the phone being a disruption. We have some people that talk on the phone all day long and no one around them notices. A normal level of chatter is common so it's not the talking that is a problem. Now LOUD talkers can be a

[Coworking] A Formal Announcement...

2012-08-06 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello World, I think this video says it all! http://vimeo.com/47040607 Enjoy, Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this

Re: [Coworking] Coworking Wiki Upgrade: Critical Mass, Transition

2012-07-31 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello! This is an exciting milestone for the project. I've said all along the issues with the wiki are not technical but rather a factor of not having a solid team in place to tackle the challenges. To date we've relied strictly on volunteers and that lasts as long as that volunteer has the

Re: [Coworking] Centre for Social Innovation - Opening In New York City!

2012-07-30 Thread Jacob Sayles
Congratulations! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Eli Malinsky e...@socialinnovation.cawrote: Hey everyone, I wanted to let you all know that CSI will be opening a space in New York

[Coworking] Coworking Wiki URL Changes

2012-07-16 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello! Alex Hillman and I reworked the domain for the wiki so that all wiki.coworking.info links now get redirected to wiki.coworking.com. We took extra care to make sure to not mess up the great SEO love we all enjoy and to make sure all old links take users to the right place. Of course with

Re: [Coworking] Any check-in or Who's Here systems in place?

2012-06-28 Thread Jacob Sayles
We use Nadine here at Office Nomads and it does basically what you talk about here. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rena Tom bob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried to implement a

Re: [Coworking] Coworking (and me) on TV in Ontario, Canada

2012-06-27 Thread Jacob Sayles
Nicely done! I look forward to seeing everything up there first hand next week. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Chad Ballantyne c...@thecreativespace.cawrote: Great interview Eli! On

Re: [Coworking] From a newbie: Thank you Coworking Community!

2012-06-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
Welcome! Thank you for the kind words. It's always wonderful to see our efforts recognized and appreciated. This is an amazing community to be a part of and every new addition brings more. It looks like you are a beautiful 6 hour drive from Seattle. I'm pretty booked up this summer with the

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
We run pfsense on an old P3 machine and it works great. The WAN fail-over is a little clunky so don't expect seamless transitions. It takes about 10 seconds to switch over and all VPNs, file transfers, etc are dropped. That said, 10 seconds of outage is better then being down. That's why we

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
Airport Extreme How many people share that AP? -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jacob Sayles wrote: We run pfsense on an old P3 machine and it works great. The WAN fail-over is a little clunky so don't expect seamless transitions. It takes

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
of equipment, so don't expect a silver bullet. -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Jacob Sayles wrote: Yes, just one Airport Extreme. At the moment we have 42 devices connected to the wireless out of 63 in the space... but it's also a quiet day

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
at 12:43 PM, Matthew Arkin mar...@itligencesolutions.com wrote: Jacob, you should be able to Share printers with Google Cloud Print http://support.google.com/chromeos/a/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=1329537 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.comwrote: We have a lot

[Coworking] Re: Visiting San Francisco

2012-06-07 Thread Jacob Sayles
Pihlman altamontcow...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'altamontcow...@gmail.com'); wrote: Jacob: If you want to drive 50 or 60 miles (one way)you are more than welcome here! Mike On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ja

[Coworking] Visiting San Francisco

2012-06-05 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello! I'll be heading down to SFO tomorrow through Saturday and was wondering who all is going to be around? I'll be checking out NextSpace, the new PariSoma, the new Citizen Space, Sandbox Suites, and whatever else I can fit in. Is there an CoworkingSF meet up group I can crash and get all my

Re: [Coworking] Re: Say goodbye to the Global Coworking Blog?

2012-05-21 Thread Jacob Sayles
Kevin just submitted a post about the wiki today! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Jeannine flexkantoorkame...@gmail.comwrote: Also, can we not repost the blog posts from the wiki blog as

Re: [Coworking] Re: Say goodbye to the Global Coworking Blog?

2012-05-21 Thread Jacob Sayles
Aggregation is tricky because the easier you make it to post the more it becomes an unhelpful firehouse of information. That said, RSS feeds can be useful tools depending on how they are managed. To answer the good source of coworking space RSS feeds issue, that's one of the features at the

Re: [Coworking] Prospective Member Question: Storage

2012-05-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
We have 6 lockers, and a shelf with cubbies on it. It's all first-come-first-server style storage and none of it is locked. If anyone needs to store a lot more or has specific needs, we direct them to the Resident membership. We've learned the different ways conversations tend to flow over the

Re: [Coworking] Prospective Member Question: Days vs. Hours

2012-05-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
We do days not hours. Conversations about partial days are often someone trying to really understand how it all works and it can easily be turned around. The ones that aren't, who are maybe more persistent, are more like what Alex suggested and honestly that's the only time I break out the hard

Re: [Coworking] Re: Community Revolving Loan Fund - Anyone?

2012-05-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
Yes and they published a book about it too. We got our copy a few weeks ago and I plan to dig in to it. Not that we are planning to buy a building but the model fascinates me. Toni, I love seeing the ideas you are throwing around too. Take good notes so we can all learn from your experience.

Re: [Coworking] Community Revolving Loan Fund - Anyone?

2012-05-17 Thread Jacob Sayles
Toni, That sounds very interesting. Can you talk a little more about how it would work? Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Toni Hogan t...@theofficeconnexion.comwrote: We are thinking of

Re: [Coworking] Say goodbye to the Global Coworking Blog?

2012-05-17 Thread Jacob Sayles
To really pull off a system like that it would require a good amount of work to make sure the right balances are struck. Also, never underestimate maintenance. As a software guy I love thinking that way, but its' a lot trickier then it might look to get something built, used, and maintained.

Re: [Coworking] Re: Say goodbye to the Global Coworking Blog?

2012-05-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
This thread highlights a number of my core motivations behind the wiki project http://opencoworking.org/coworkingwiki/ we're working on. Beyond blogs, wikis, or whatever tool we are talking about, there are the people that maintain the tools and keep things running. Historically we've been an

Re: [Coworking] Co-working directory websites?

2012-05-11 Thread Jacob Sayles
Thanks for the shout-out, Jerome! The Coworking Wikihttp://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/16583831/FrontPage has a community-run, non-commercial Coworking Directoryhttp://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/29303049/Directory. We're currently at work on a project to

Re: [Coworking] Re: Video to Tell the Coworking Story

2012-05-10 Thread Jacob Sayles
I know! It makes me want to come visit and spend some time working from there. I've got a long list and next up is Toronto in July. Super excited. I'd travel and visit every space if I had the time/money to do so. Great work on the video. It helps to see faces behind the emails and the

Re: [Coworking] Re: Too good not to share!

2012-05-03 Thread Jacob Sayles
Precisely. It's critically important to be yourself so people have something to gravitate towards and also away from. This provides the integrity and consistency of the culture which is what people are really looking for. I know how we do things turns some members off, and we lose customers,

Re: [Coworking] Digest for coworking@googlegroups.com - 7 Messages in 6 Topics

2012-04-19 Thread Jacob Sayles
Thanks Rebecca! The team is really coming together now and we are making progress. Thank you very much for your contribute and your unwavering support throughout this whole process. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On

Re: [Coworking] Anthony and Kevin at The Freelancers Union

2012-04-18 Thread Jacob Sayles
I think there might be a misunderstanding here. I've spent a considerable amount of time with the loosecubes folks and they get it. As someone who tends to blather on and try new wording quite a bit I understand how painfully awkward it can be to do that in a public forum and miss the mark. So

Re: [Coworking] must read

2012-04-17 Thread Jacob Sayles
Here's what I do know. The link goes to a book on Amazon and looks interesting. I also know Kaan contributed to the Coworking Wiki project. Bots don't tend to donate to charitable causes so odds are intentions are good. On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Randall G. Arnold wrote: ** Sorry, I'm

Re: [Coworking] Re: Two Inspiring Founders of Coworking/Collaborative Workspaces profiled in mystartstory.com

2012-04-04 Thread Jacob Sayles
Wow Derek, way to get right to the heart of the matter! I think the profit conversation that comes up quite a bit is a little too simplistic. As someone who's part of a strong, profitable coworking community I often find the corporate vs hippy debate confusing. Derek's point about priorities is

Re: [Coworking] Re: Office Nomads Power Outlet Pole Thingys

2012-04-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
I'd like to find ones that are flexible. We have a couple areas where the tables get moved around quite a bit when we have events and such and it would be nice if we weren't confined by these poles. The trick is making it look nice and not just hanging an extension cord from the ceiling. Any

Re: [Coworking] Re: Office Nomads Power Outlet Pole Thingys

2012-04-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Adrienne Normand arnorm...@gmail.com wrote: One thing you could do is get tables with power that daisy-chains. That way not all tables are dependent on your one power sourceonly the first one is. Adrienne On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jacob Sayles ja

[Coworking] Wiki Progress Report!

2012-03-31 Thread Jacob Sayles
Hello! Where did March go?! We've been working pretty hard on the wiki project and I apologize for being slow with the updates. Things are going really well and I'm excited for what April brings. So far we've raised about $2000, mostly in $25-$100 amounts. Emergent Research and Nextspace

Re: [Coworking] Best practices for signing up new members

2012-03-30 Thread Jacob Sayles
As with most things we try and do everything through human to human interaction. That said, we've build into Nadine a few gentle reminders to help us make sure everything gets done. We have a list of TO DO items that get triggered with a new membership and some EXIT TASKS that get triggered when

Re: [Coworking] Re: Best CRM for coworking space management

2012-03-27 Thread Jacob Sayles
Nadine has come a long way since it's early days and we continue to slowly make improvements. I have a basic idea of what you mean Alex, but it's hard for me to say if we are the exact form of member focused that you talking about. I wouldn't say we are deal focused either. We focus on the

Re: [Coworking] Cash Flow Projection - Review request?

2012-03-27 Thread Jacob Sayles
I'm happy to take a look. I love playing with the numbers. :) Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, OC Houston t...@theofficeconnexion.comwrote: I am preparing a cash flow projection for a

Re: [Coworking] Creative Co Working Place Business Plan

2012-03-20 Thread Jacob Sayles
Oh that stings, but it's true. The wiki needs some love and I'm in the throes of a plan to make things betterhttp://opencoworking.org/coworkingwiki/plan.html. Business plans are a great example of experiences/knowledge we can share with a tool like the wiki. It's not as far from being that as

Re: [Coworking] Hello from Chicago

2012-03-20 Thread Jacob Sayles
Sam, I'm sorry we didn't get more time to talk in Austin. It was a hectic day and we were out as quickly as we came in. I'm excited for your launch and assuming your space, and your directory are any indication I'm sure it is going to be beautiful and well thought out. Great work. Jacob ---

Re: [Coworking] Communication tools

2012-03-17 Thread Jacob Sayles
We use an all member mailing list. We've been using Mailman but our hosting company limits our discussions to 100 users and we have 102 members. We looked at lots of different solutions, including Google Groups, and instead are switching to a mailing list that is integrated into Nadine, which we

Re: [Coworking] Re: GCUC Takeaway: Regional Associations

2012-03-14 Thread Jacob Sayles
Beautifully put! Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Beth Buczynski bethbo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for posting this recap Craig! I really enjoyed this Unconference discussion and think

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