Kategoriearchiv: CoWorking Events

Only 5 weeks after starting the “Free Coworking” Campaign we are very happy to present the first “Free Coworking Directory“. Thanks to your support and many contributions we can add this very valuable tool to our “Free Coworking Resource” page. Similar to our “Free Coworking Skill Sharing“, the “Free Coworking Directory” consists of an Input Form and an Output Form. For Help and Support of the directory, we also set up piratepad. The great value and strength of this new directory lies is the fact that you can enter a wide variety of  ”Free Coworking Business Models/Offers”. Now everybody can identify easily what kind of  ”Free Coworking” they are offering. The options are: “Mixed (Paid & Free Coworking)”, “Pure (Free Coworking only)”, “Coworking Grants for some users”, “Free Basic Use (Extra services charged)”, “Free Coworking Event/Jelly” or last, but not least, if you want to offer “Free Coworking” in the future (”Free Coworking Starter”). I believe the tool can serve the whole coworking community with all the different modes of operation: Mixed “Paid & Free Coworking”, “Coworking Events/Jellies” and “Pure (Free-Coworking)”.  

The first “Free Coworking” pioneers have already entered their events on the “Open International Coworking Calendar“. As described the day before yesterday, Jellies and “Free Coworking” offers can use the calendar for free to announce where and when they are offering “Free Coworking”. The calendar can also be used by coworking spaces that offer “Paid Coworking” but who like to experiment and develop “Free Coworking” alongside their “Paid-offer”.  

After setting up a Facebook Group for “Free Coworking” and formulating  some initial thoughts, it is time to promote actual “Free Coworking” offers. The “Open International CoWorking Calendar“, that is now operating for a year, seems to me a very good tool to support this start. Based on the Google Calendar it is easy to import and export Coworking Events across all time zones. As I believe many coworking space managers will start to offer “Free Coworking” alongside “Paid Coworking” the Calendar is an ideal tool to communicate the times and dates when and where “Free Coworking” is available. Alongside the Facebook Group, the Calendar will be extremely beneficial to highlight and develop “Free Coworking”.  

A global event like the currently running Jellyweek requires a completely new focus for everyone involved. If you want to communicate and cooperate with someone in a different place on this planet, you have to consider that this person is probably living and working in a different time zone to yourself. If you live in Europe and you start to work with someone in the US this is not too difficult. You check the time zone and find that New York has 6 hours difference and you adjust your time table accordingly. But this is only one “relationship” and only one “time difference” you have to consider. With a global event where about 200 partners are trying to co-operate who are spread across all time zones this is much more tricky.  

Today Anni Roolf and Willi Schroll published the Jellyweek Manual for the Jellyweek 2012, that takes place from the 16th to the 22nd of January.  In the manual you find the listing of all the jellies. To get an idea of where the jellies are, it is very nice to refer to the Jelly Map. Also available is the project list that is just starting to build up. To enter a new jelly use the “Jelly Questionnaire“. To enter a new project use the “Project Questionnaire“. Well done Anni Roolf and Willi Schroll!!! More information about Jellyweek on the Jellyweek Homepage as well as in the article “Worldwide Jellyweek Offers Free Intro To Coworking” by Beth Buczynski on Shareable.