camcow - building a coworking space for cambridge

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