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Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » The CoWorking Project In K-Town — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:56:59 +0000

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By: Victor Agreda Jr

Victor Agreda Jr — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:54:10 +0000

hey Tim, I did indeed teach at ITT. my last quarter is going on right now. ah 2003, good times.

By: Tim Bird

Tim Bird — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:18:49 +0000

This does sound like a wonderful idea. My wife and I run a web design shop out of our home. We pretty much have all we need as far as equipment is concerned. However, when it comes to things clients need that we can provide we’d be forced to have to contract out or send them in another direction. With this sort of collaboration the contracting or what have you, would be with someone local that you know and could possibly trust. It would be a win/win.

P.S. Victor didn’t you teach at ITT? I think I had you for my Intro to HTML course back in 2003.

By: sadcox

sadcox — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:30:33 +0000

HM, the cool thing is that most of what needs to be incubated has such low overhead. Most of the people who would like to participate in something like this wouldn’t be drawn to it by millions it research dollars. For instance, I don’t need a lot of money to work on my projects (although I’ll take it if offered), but I do need a workspace and an internet connection. I could also really benefit from having collaboration and outside opinions at various points of a project.

newscoma, I have a couch that I only sleep on in the afternoons. It’s yours otherwise.

Billymac, This is just like an A-Team scheme…of COURSE it can work!

By: billymac

billymac — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:24:01 +0000

interesting concept… it’s just crazy enough to work.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:14:16 +0000

This is so exciting. Makes me want to move east.

By: Victor Agreda Jr

Victor Agreda Jr — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:46:48 +0000

Wow, I hadn’t thought of that! Yeah, have a few servers either running various platforms/backends or use a VM server so people can do testing. And if you have actual humans around to see a UI or test a feature, all the better. Neat!

By: Hungry Mother

Hungry Mother — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:40:49 +0000

It really makes sense, like incubators on steroids. The quality support people that can be shared provides a great advantage.

By: sadcox

sadcox — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:18:31 +0000

Thanks for stopping by and commenting Victor. It was great to meet you too. I was thinking about some other bonuses of sharing workspaces tonight.

Example–I have a machine upstairs running linux/apache/mysql/php for development. I’d be more than happy to get this dinosaur out of my house and into a place where other people could benefit by using it too. I’m using it rarely right now, but it could be a great resource for a group of people who need a little test machine to play with and either don’t know how to set up on their own or would rather concentrate on their project instead of wrestling with installation issues.

So many possibilities…

By: Victor Agreda Jr

Victor Agreda Jr — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:05:15 +0000

Dude, this is SO possible. Knoxville is on several top 10 lists for “best places to live” (although I think our area is still considered quite poor in air quality). I think the only roadblock is a perception of what “the South” has to offer.

But on a more local level I think a shared workspace where the cost of certain pieces of equipment is leveraged by a larger group makes sense. For freelancers who need things like laser printers and projectors, it makes good economic sense too.

Great to meet you today!