Say that three times fast.
I had been wanting to check out the new “Coworking” space, Cospace, here in North Austin (Eryn, Kevin and I have decided that they are in North Austin, which I am sure many of people will agree, vs saying they are in Central Austin, or for those few ‘folks up der in Leander’, who might feel like this area is in Downtown Austin, to which, well they are WRONG.)
Anyway, due to a series of odd events, Eryn, Kevin and I ended up here at Cospace. Coworking is a new concept to most, I was introduced to it by the good folks that run Conjunctured, another Coworking space here in Austin.
Basically, the thing is there are plenty of places for freelancers to work, not many of them are very conducive to working and most lack the feel of working with people, because even the most anti-social of us are still, well social creatures, we just hate being social, but eventually miss people.
So the idea is to get folks out of coffee shops and out of their home offices and into a shared environment, where they will be able to have sort of ‘normal’ work environment and be with people, yet without ‘working for da man’.
I know quite a few freelancers that are always looking for a coffee shop that is conducive to work on projects, unfortunately I would say the majority of them are not remotely conducive. I most definitely recommend a Coworking facility, and given that it is closer to my own home I would say that Cospace is a great place.
I neglected to take any photos of Eryn and Kevin (and I ) working here, ummm, too busy working I guess. But I think the general feel was that the space was good, Kevin recommended that they maybe have some mouse-pads to loan out, or even add them to the vending machine that was joked about when we first arrived.
Speaking of arrival, the reason we ended up here was that our real office (Jaduka/NetworkIP) was experiencing bad smells, not the kind that one would expect after say egg salad sandwiches or burritos for lunch, but more of the kind of bad smell that makes you wonder if you are living in New Jersey, eg chemicals. Apparently some contractors had done some work in the building over the weekend and apparently they didn’t handle their fumes properly.
The fumes were stronger in some parts of the office than other, but regardless I was getting light headed and decided to come on over to Cospace.
I talked with Kirtus Dixon, one of the owners of Cospace on Saturday. Jeremy had mentioned me during one of their conversations last week, as Jeremy (who currently is a freelancer of sorts) has been hanging here at Cospace.
My conversation with Kirtus revolved around what they want to accomplish and what I could possibly contribute to some of their ideas for building a community. I have to say that I am very interested in some of the items we discussed, particularly the hackathon.
Well, I need to wrap up this post as they are putting up the balloons and I hear something about bringing out the food.
I’ll make another post later, with pics from the party.
laterz
