Talk:Coworking
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the ref to the article is broken, someone please fix. fixed w3ace 17:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- thanks Christopher Mahan 17:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks, I can't edit the page because I'm involved in the movement, but I wanted to note some facts here on the discussion board. First, I'm the originator of the term coworking. Also, I'm the creator of the coworking movement; while there were spaces that were similar to coworking before I created the term, they did not imagine themselves as part of a larger movement. While I have stepped back from full time engagement in coworking, it is important to me to be properly credited with initiating the movement and word. If someone can fact check my claim and then edit the page to record these facts that would be great. --Brad Neuberg, codinginparadise.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by BradNeuberg (talk • contribs) 01:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- Brad, got any references/pointers to help us in the process? Links to early talk-list messages or published interviews would be helpful. This entry was previously removed because of lack of references, so to prevent a repeat we should be as source-rich as possible to make every assertion in the article verifiable. Raines 13:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- OK, I found a current public coworking list discussion thread in which Chris Messina attributes coworking to Brad, that would be a start. And someone could additionally reference the Spiral Muse external link already on the page for context. Raines (talk) 09:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Raines; here is some more supporting references acknowledging me as the founder of coworking. See the new Mother Jones print issue January/November 2008 in stores now, on page 66 is the article "Works Well With Others" by Kiera Butler. An excerpt from the article:
"So what is the lonesome office-less worker to do? In 2005, Brad Neuberg, a software programmer in San Francisco, hit upon a simple solution: He got a few friends together to share a rental space, as well as printers, fax machines, and wireless Internet, and -- like a good start-up founder -- branded his creation "coworking." As the 31-year-old recalls, "I said, 'Why can't I have my cake and eat it too? Is there a way that I can have community and independence?' It's a false assumption that you can't have both."
Word of Neuberg's San Francisco Coworking Space spread, and techies, writers, and entrepreneurs began dropping in. "I urged people to steal the idea," he says. Today, there are 29 coworking sites across North America and a few more around the globe -- all listed on a wiki that has instructions for anyone who wants to start her own." -- BradNeuberg (talk) 22:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
All, should the entry include anything about Bernie DeKoven's Coworking Institute previous use of the term dating back a decade or more? Or the generic use of the term as in coworkers in a traditional firm/department? And would it best fit the Entrepreneurship category or Employment or something else? Raines 13:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Raines; it is just a coincidence that Bernie used the name coworking before I termed a similar term. Since then Bernie and I have spoken, and there are some similarities in our work around collaboration, but our work is not linked. -- BradNeuberg (talk) 22:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
I added this page to WP:COOP because coworking seems to meet most of the core definition of Cooperative: "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise." Yes, the "ownership" is often technically held by one or a few members. But since the informality and joint management is a key distinction from generic "corporate" office-rentals and formal business incubators, it seems like a worthwhile connection. Perhaps coworking::cooperative business as cohousing::intentional communities... i.e. using the model, but in a new way with greater independence and autonomy. Raines 11:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks; I've provided supporting evidence above to show I started coworking, termed the coin, and opened the first coworking space. I can't edit the main page however since I am involved in the movement. Can someone verify the facts I created and edit the page? Thanks! (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
