Coworking in the Recovery of New Orleans
Get ready for another Coworking session on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 at the Bayou Coffee House starting at 11:00 am. I’ll be available to help you with information oriented things, but generally, bring some work to get done, and get it done.
You can learn more about Weekend Coworking by reading about it a the first Weekend Coworking at the Bayou Coffee House.
Also, I’m talking about how to brand the coworking concept. This is a forum to further that discussion. Here’s some of the feedback I’ve gotten so far…
Brian Kerr – Look at Multi-Tenant nonprofit centers net as a point of contrast. That’s the old, you’re assembling the new. MTNC is to incubator as your un-named thing is to (µ)coworking. Just to make it clear that it’s an adversarial thing.
Articles on coworking from BusinessWeek, the New York Times, and the San Antonio Express News.
This is really a forum for discussing this concept. I’m developing it with the help of Douglas Ahlers and Stephen Tremaine from the Broodmoor Project. We have ArcGIS licenses and are read to start a project oriented computer center using the resources of the Trinity Christian Community.
Wiki pages forming now: Unnamed Computer Center Project, Neighborhood Coworking. The wiki password is (nospam/nospam).
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Finally, it occurs to me to call the TCC computer resources and space a Neighborhood Coworking Center. Feeling good about that name.
This is awesome! Great idea Alan.
Ed
Thank you for engaging in this frenzy. I’m surprised at all that’s been accomplished in the last two weeks. Now, more than ever, do I need the Ann Arborization of these meager efforts here in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Wiki is a bifurcated mess. A dumping ground of thoughts with default styling. I keep meaning to write about the schism in a post that I’d entitle A Tale of Two Wikis. The long and the sort is this.
ArborWiki has made the most of MediaWiki. If I aborted Instiki and went back, I’d benefit from the advances that Matt Hampel and Brian Kerr have committed to the ArborWiki infrastructure. However, local blogger Mominem has maintained the List of New Orleans Bloggers on Instiki and the Citizen’s Road Home Action team is trained on Instiki and they do well there.
Thus, I’m going to add noise to the signal and point you at Instiki. I’ve created a few pages there. There’s a name now for the project center, inspired by Brian Kerr’s work in Ann Arbor and my conversations with you specifically.
Neighborhood Coworking Center.
You’ll notice that I’ve not actually created a Neighborhood Coworking Center page yet.
There you’ll find links to the two things that are really, truly projects, defined after the epiphany that had me working the phones these last two weeks. They are the NetSquared Mashup Challenge and the Neighborhood Coworking Center. I’m not sure what a project page should look like, what needs to be there to keep everyone on track.
I can say that my sister is going to be working with me on design on all projects, and she is also in Ann Arbor. So, if you can nudge things into the right direction, and feel that there are visual elements that need to be developed, that should be especially easy to accomplish.
Call or leave more comments here. Let’s have this conversation out in the open when we can.