Author: noneck

The Hive Cooperative – an idea for Denver Coworking

Andrew Luter, a Denver based technology misfit, has laid out an all inclusive coworking ideal – the hive – not just a modern internet-cafe, not just a share office space, but a professional working environment embody in a sweet narrative and well laid out wiki. Should you be in Denver or if you are looking to start a coworking space, Andrew’s has a good pulse on creating the contextual elements.

This article is cross-posted on noneck.org, and mad-props to s.s. trudeau for the link.

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coworking in businessweek.com

Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle by Kerry Miller
Coworking facilities blend the appeal of an independent environment with many of the advantages of the traditional office.

brief excerpt…

Over the past few years, coworking facilities—both grassroots, co-op-like versions and for-profit models—have started popping up across the country and the world, from Seattle to Copenhagen. A CoWorking Wiki hosts pages for dozens of other cities with coworking initiatives in progress. And while the concept of shared office space is nothing new to entrepreneurs, an increasing number of them are signing on and finding that the community-building and networking benefits outweigh even the virtues of a shared fax machine.

photos & profiles of some coworking spaces

ps – please note that the original article in ms miller’s article is wrong. it is not co-working it is coworking and you can find more information at http://wiki.coworking.info or http://coworking.pbwiki.com

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making coworking scheduling software a reality

Friends, Romans, Coworkers…

We have reached that point were we are seriously talking about scheduling software. John McGann, 116 West Houston, has hired a developer to update his old software. John doesn’t have any particular construct, php, ruby on rails, drupal or some other open-souce CMS. John just wants the software built with enough ambiguity to manage a generic set of coworking spaces.

My personal interest is to make this dream a reality, and within the next few days we will set up a call to review any/all documents to kick start this bad boy. In the meantime, if you are interested we need you to do three things…

  1. join the coworking google group.
  2. think up what are the best features and post them to the wiki.
  3. add your name if your want to be part of the development team

This article has been cross posted on noneck.org.

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coworking finds an compatriot in nyc

WOW! it looks like a fellow new yorker & buckeye is coming to the right track… today, Nate Westheimer posted cafeBricolage — The NYC Solution is a Hot-plate… i’m so excited to see others thinking along the same lines… the following is my comment, and cross posted at noneck.org

nate, this is great… i’m glad to see that you are coming to the same conclusion many of us have been working on for many months… we already have a small space in brooklyn, and several spaces through out the world. SF and Vancouver have the most vibrant spaces, and the paris space is going to be awesome!

through here in nyc, my self and a few others have been working hard – coworking, barcamp/drupalcamps/rootscamp, and blogging liberally – to extend the notion of a progressive new york city…

it’s great to see, fellow nextNY are finally coming to the right track. i guess it’s time to finally let the cat out of the bag and tell you for the past few months, i’ve been working with the tank, a creative arts space in tribeca, and we have the framework for the location AND A PHYSICAL LOCATION!!!

roughly, we need 5 people who are willing to shepherd the opening and closing of the tank, and VOLA! you have a access to programming and happy hours at the tank. more details to be ironed out in person…

i won’t argue about names or wether or not this is a brand spanking new idea. these are great thoughts that i’m finally happy to see them receive greater acceptance. you have no clue how hard it’s been to talk to fellow nextNY’ers and meetup attendants about coworking/cafeBrickologe…

i’m currently in geneva for LIFT and will be back on sunday. the tank and i are planning on having a happy hour to discuss this space and many other ideas in the next two weeks.

come join the ongoing discussion on our global email list.

Brooklyn Coworking Open House

We’re having an open house, and you’re invited!

  • Tired of arguing with your cat about a bad client?
  • Wondering what is the next wave in social networking?
  • Looking for an invigorating environment to call an “office?”

Break free from hourly coffee purchase and grab a slice of Willamsburg’s alternatively working community. We call it – Coworking – a cafe-like community and collaboration space for developers, writers and independents. Grassroots coworking spaces are popping up all over the world, from San Francisco, to Paris, to a few here in New York City.

Join us this Friday, 12 January, at the Not an Alternative gallery for COWORKING BROOKLYN. From 10 am to 5 pm, our doors will be open for anyone to come on by and give us a try. Bring a laptop, a snack or two, manuscript, screenplay, or killer app and leave the kats behind.

From 5 pm to 6 pm, we will host a happy hour for you and radical techies! This will be one sweet happy hour!

Who are we? Writers, Organizers, Artist, Philosophers, Activist, Bloggers, and Adventure Seekers.

When you join the Brooklyn Coworking space you get:

  • community
  • a low monthly rate
  • wifi
  • printer and scanner
  • coffee
  • beer-o-clock
  • quiet spaces to work in
  • networking and expertise
  • interesting people

If you have questions feel free to email us at brooklyn.coworking[a/t]gmail[d0t]com

Cost: Free!!!
When: Friday, 12 Jan, 2007, 10AM – 5PM (Happy Hour 5pm – 6pm)
Where: Not an Alternative Gallery, 84 Havemeyer, Willamsburg, Brooklyn
Map: OnNYTurf Subway map or http://tinyurl.com/ykmhbd

hCal Info:

January 12th 10am, 6am 2007 — Brooklyn Coworking Open House— at 84 Havemeyer, Brooklyn, NY

Want more info?
Join the NYC Coworking Google Group – http://groups.google.com/group/coworkingnyc
Check out Not an Alternative Gallery: http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
See the Coworking Wiki: http://wiki.coworking.info/
See the Coworking Blog: http://blog.coworking.info/

the new coworking domain – coworking.info

as a holiday gift to the coworking community, we now have a new top level domain!

COWORKING.INFO

Blog – Coworking Blog – http://blog.coworking.info
Wiki – Coworking Wiki – http://wiki.coworking.info

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be investigating hosted email solutions and subdomains. If you are intersted in a specialized sub-domain (i.e. http://nyc.coworking.info that points to http://wiki.coworking.info/CoworkingNewYorkCity) Please contact NoNeckNoel

NYC Holiday Party & Creative Commons Birthday Bash

come one, come all – it’s nyc’s coworking holiday happy hour & creative commons birthday party!

as our first holiday season rolls around, we’re on the verge of introducing TWO FULL TIME coworking locations! one of the locations, the Tank, can’t wait to get us through their doors for social libations. Collocated in Tribeca with Collective Unconscious, The Tank is a space for performing and visual arts. Their focus – emerging performers, designers, writers, directors, producers – AND soon YOU!!!

this friday, 15 December 2007, join us at 279 Church Street, Manhattan. starting at 5 pm and ending at 7 pm, the Tank will have every reason for you to close your browser window and jump into Tribeca.

at 7 pm, we’ll head north to visit eyebeam and our creative commons friends. can you believe that it’s only been four years since creative commons inception? in true organic style, this is a global event – eyebeam (540 West 21st St, NYC) is just one of the venues!

ps – if your city isn’t listed and you want to host a party, just edit the creative commons wiki!

SEE YA FRIDAY!!

Coworking Manhattan

Panorama of CoworkingNYC
photo of eastmedia’s offices by noneck

three weeks after our initial barcamp nyc 2 conversation, Jeffrey Ng & Matthew Pelletier of eastmedia have decided to open their company’s doors for a weekly session of Coworking in Manhattan. situated just a few blocks away from amit gupta‘s original coworking sessions, aka jelly – Coworking Manhattan is already affectionally titled the whip.

the doors are always open to all! one of our goals is to facilitate a weekly session of interested parties in a more formal space. check out the coworking manhattan wiki and consider joining us next tuesday, 24 october 2006!