camcow - building a coworking space for cambridge
DESCRIPTION
Since November 2008, a group of freelance and independent software/web/design/media people have got together to create a coworking space in Cambridge. This presentation gives a summary of where the coworking group has got in February 2009, including the current location at Citylife Social Enterprise Centre.TRANSCRIPT
CamCowBuilding a Coworking space for Cambridge
Martin Kleppmann
Coworking
• Freelancers, otherwise working from home
• Community, social environment
• ≠ Hotdesking
• Sharing skills + knowledge
• Keep independence, Informal
• cf. BarCamp, Open Source
Elsewhere...
Nanette, Charlie, Juan, Martin, Sarah, Tom, Lee, Frank, ...
Membership(goes directly to Citylife, a registered charity)
~1day/wk 2–3 d/wk 5 d/wk permanent
Students, low income
Charities, social enterprise
Artists, creative
Commerical
£10 p.m. £30 p.m. Ask Ask
£20 p.m. £40 p.m. £80 p.m. £125 p.m.
£20 p.m. £40 p.m. £80 p.m. £125 p.m.
£50 p.m. £100 p.m. £150 p.m. £200 p.m.
Current arrangement
Coworker Coworker Charity
CamCow
Citylife Social Enterprise Centre
Questions
• Community-run (non-profit)?
• One permanent location vs. changing locations?
• Low barrier to entry (variety of people) or higher barrier (just the best people)?
• Share incoming work? “Agency” element?
Get in touch
• If you are in freelance tech/design/media...
• http://camcow.org
• Google Group (email martin at eptcomputing dot com for invitation)
• http://twitter.com/martinkl