1. Upcoming Event
  2. Interested
  3. Locations
    1. WiFiCafes
    2. Jellys
    3. Previous meetings
  4. Brainstorming: ideal coworking place
    1. Equipment (durable goods)
    2. Location (, Location, Location, Location)
    3. People & Community
    4. Policy
    5. Rooms
    6. how do we get from here to there?
      1. Models
    7. possible "fun" collaborative projects
    8. Finances
    9. Patterns

Upcoming Event

 

Jelly

at DoubleShot, July 12, 9AM–5PM

A jelly for people interested in coworking. DoubleShot handles the coffee, you handle the work, I'll handle the energy. Afterward, I'm grilling food. Feel free to bring drinks, snacks &c or donate toward a future coworking space.

RSVP at upcoming

 

Interested

 

Want to get involved? Well, edit your name to this list and/or send email to joseph@josephholsten.com

 

 

How do we get the word out to other people who may be interested?

 

Locations

There aren't any CoworkingSpaces open in Tulsa yet, but here are a few places that are coworking friendly:

 

WiFiCafes

 

Jellys

 

Before you think of handing money to strangers, make sure they're cool first. We'll be working at Doubleshot 18th & Boston (map) from 11:00 to 16:00 on Saturdays. Please join this huge number of people:

 

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews
  • David Cary
  • Bob

 

You might not like these folks. That's cool. You might arrange a regular meeting to work together in a coffee shop. There's no reason not to work together.

 

 

 

 

Previous meetings

June 07, 2008

Attendees:

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews
  • Ken
  • Chris Daniel
  • Ashton Olive
  • Carlos Moreno
  • more!

May 31, 2008

Attendees:

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews
  • David Cary
  • Bob Burch

May 23, 2008

Attendees:

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews

May 17, 2008

Attendees:

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews
  • David Cary

May 17, 2008

Attendees:

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews
  • David Cary

 

May 24, 2008

Attendees:

  • Joseph Holsten
  • Nathan Matthews

 

Brainstorming: ideal coworking place

Equipment (durable goods)

  • Internet
  • tables/desks
  • chairs
  • sofa
  • Projector
  • Fax machine
  • Printer
  • Techlab-like setup
  • bookshelves
  • filing cabinets
  • 19-inch rack for electronics and the Beowulf cluster :-).

Location (, Location, Location, Location)

  • windows with nice view (so, above the ground floor)
  • windows so other people can walk by and see what we do (so, on the ground floor)
  • within walking distance of public library?
  • within walking distance of coffee shop

People & Community

  • Programmers
  • Engineers
  • Visual Designers
  • Solo workers
  • Avoid coalitions

Policy

  • "Full desks"
    • Priority access to rooms
    • Get area keys -- key to front door, etc.
    • Invitations
    • Get dedicated desk
  • Anyone else can walk in
    • Use free desks if space
    • Can be kicked out by part/full time
    • No locker
  • Part-timers
    • Get locker
    • Get non-dedicated desk
    • No sharing keys
  • Who gets keys to the electronics rack?
  • Don't be stupid. Reasonableness general rule.
  • No NDAs
  • Pricing
    • 1.5 * space cost
    • Divide by num ppl * 100 sqft

Rooms

  • Main
    • modular tables
      • can join to form big table
    • Whiteboard
    • BBS
    • Chill-out sofas
    • Bookshelves
      • Open Library
      • Take-away
  • Workshop
    • Dirty, noisy, toxic, beer, yeast, grey goo
    • 220V
    • Computer maintenance equipment
    • Storage?
  • Kitchen
    • Espresso/Coffee?
      • Low-end commercial level
        • Prosumer
      • Coffee source
        • 2Shot
    • Refrigerator
    • Facing Street / Open
      • Sell coffee?
      • Health codes?
    • A chill-zone, passive brainstorming
  • Bathroom
  • Video-conferencing
    • Clean, good view
    • soundproofed from main room
    • big window between video-conferencing room and main room
  • Conference
    • Same as vid?
  • "phone booth(s)"
    • 1 person, for calls, noisy stuff
    • soundproofed from main room
    • big window between each phone booth and main room
  • Brainstorming room
    • Whiteboard, noisiness

 

how do we get from here to there?

Models

Who's already gone from here to there? Can we learn from them? Any good ideas that we can apply to Coworking Tulsa?

 

possible "fun" collaborative projects

  • develop open-source software
  • experiment with pair programming and rapid pair shuffling -- do they really work as well as people say they do?
  • build video game console with real foot-pedal, throttle, collective, etc.
  • build desktop CNC (see RepRap, Biollante, PMinMO, etc.)
  • build open-source cell phone
  • various wearable computing stuff
  • build CPU out of relays
  • Throwies
  • mobile art

 

Finances

We haven't really discussed how the money will be handled when we get a space. So here's a quick braindump.

  • accountants
  • working cash
  • rent vs own space
  • loans
    • for space
    • for equipment
  • expenditures breakdown
    • rent / loan payment for space
    • equipment (durable goods)
    • maintainance
    • supplies (non-durable)
      • coffee
      • toilet paper
      • copy paper
      • light bulbs
      • pens
    • services & utilities
      • internet
      • electricity
      • water
      • gas

 

Patterns

Most of this brainstorming should be cross linked with pattern pages, or should create patterns of their own.


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